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Another question on rental agreements....... (by Donna M.):

Ok, I have read about all the pre-cautions to take when renting a unit; ie - making sure the person actually owns the week, getting a rental agreement but my question is this: What good is that rental agreement if something goes wrong - the person may be across the country or in another country even and then something goes wrong; how the hay do you enforce said agreement, if you went with just that and no escrow; your funds are gone and all you have is an agreement with someone far away; who may or may not have even give you their correct full name, address and phone number on said "agreement"; not to mention the cost of tracking them down, suiing them or whatever needs to be done would likely outweigh what you paid them ? It's not like you can drive across town and serve them with papers from Small Claims Court? Am I missing something here ? Thanks !