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Original Message:

Re: redweek verified question (by KC):

davidb3146 wrote:
Can a potential renter pay the $15 to Redweek to verify a listing?

No. Only the listing advertiser / owner can get their rental listing "verified"; the advertiser actually has to submit documentation to Redweek proving their ownership. Why some advertisers don't get their listing "verified" for the small amount of money involved is a mystery to me. Personally I would never post (and have never posted) a rental listing without getting it verified. A "verified" RedWeek listing provides peace of mind for the prospective renter and, for the advertiser, it avoids wasting time answering multiple communications all asking the same questions over and over again.

As a renter, I would frankly be careful with (and leery of) "unverified" rental listings on RedWeek. For starters, such ads could have been placed by people attempting to rent out a week that they obtained by exchange from RCI or II, which is a practice strictly prohibited by the terms and conditions of both of those exchange companies. Such weeks could never get “verified” for the listing advertiser, since the advertiser doesn't actually own such "exchange" weeks in the first place.