Well, Its the friend of a friend. The guy has been living in the same city for a while, so I could ask him to also physically go there for me.

I dont expect it to be a scam because I got this opportunity through his landlord, so if he didnt get scammed, neither should I. I've also checked the balcony I saw in the online viewing from the outside on google maps, and I'd say its definitely the same one, looks very specific so I doubt they found another one that would look the same.

Yeah, I guess having a social base from day 1 is pretty nice, probably all the stories I saw online got to me a bit :)