Bait & Switch Rental Listings in Vietnam

Ill start with probably the scarriest story of the thread. Hopefully nothing gets worse than this. My wife and I were looking for an apartment and we found one that looked modern, clean and a good price. My wife did all communication so we wouldnt get the "foreigner tax". When trying to set up a meeting to see the place it got sketchy when the "agent" said to meet at some random street under the bridge and the agent would take my wife to the place. My wife asked why couldnt they just meet at the apartment and there was some excuse about the owner not wanting visitors or some weirdness that didnt make sense. The agent told my wife to bring cash for the deposit on the spot otherwise the place would go quick and not to waste her time if she didnt bring it. That wasnt even the worst part. After it came up that my wife was bringing her husband thats when the agent went fully balistic and started cursing my wife out and calling her names out of nowhere. She was just yelling and screaming at my wife for even the mention of bringing me. Thats when the alarm bells were triggered that none of this was real and that it was just a tactic to lure a woman, by herself, with money into a hard to see location where they could rob her or worse.

More on topic to the origonal post I would say at least 50% of the listings that are online just dont show the actual room or apartment for rent. A single ad can often times show 5 completely different rooms so you have no idea what your actually going to get. I will ask the agent for photos of the exact room and sometimes that helps and sometimes they just refuse. Always look in person and if they refuse to allow you to see it (happens often) just ignore that listing.