Maybe I am reading it wrong but it seems the folks in the house paid for a lease and rent.
You’re reading it wrong. The people who moved in said they paid $3,000. I’ve read these things before. It’s a scam. And it will cost the home owner. If they had a paid lease, they would have gotten a key, and not smashed in a window for entrance. Who does that?
Yeah, to a scam artist, not to the owner....