VISTA, Calif. -- Two Orange County men who bilked thousands of dollars from people by renting out homes they didn't own pleaded guilty Wednesday to grand theft.

Alexander Braslavsky, 34, and Anthony Patrick Marshall, 38, will be sentenced Nov. 10 in Vista. Under the terms of a plea agreement, they must pay $15,000 in compensation to four victims by the sentencing date. They each face up to 90 days in jail.

"I'm happy that the victims will get all their money back up front," said Deputy District Attorney Anna Winn. The prosecutor said restitution was her top goal in reaching the plea bargain.

Under the plea deal, two other counts of grand theft were dismissed, as well as conspiracy and attempted grand theft charges.

Winn said Braslavsky and Marshall -- who has a real estate license -- posted ads on the Craigslist Web site for five foreclosed homes in Carlsbad, Corona and Stanton and rented them out.

Linda Smith, who agreed to rent one of the homes in Carlsbad, said the guilty pleas were bittersweet.

The Carlsbad resident will be getting back $4,500, but said she wished the defendants were facing a longer jail sentence.

"It's nice watching them walk down the hall with their heads down," Smith said outside court. "I would have liked to have seen them get a longer sentence for what they did."

Smith said the defendants were very convincing, prompting her to pay them a $4,500 deposit and also first and last month's rent.

She said Braslavsky and Marshall handed her three keys to the house, and they all worked.

"They didn't have a conscience throughout all of this," Smith said.

She said she realized she had been swindled when she tried to turn on her utilities and was told someone had just bought the house.

The woman said she went back on Craigslist and posted a notice explaining how she had been taken, and a Huntington Beach resident who planned on meeting two men about a rental house in Carlsbad contacted her.

Smith called police, who then went to the previously scheduled meeting between the swindlers and their intended target -- the Huntington Beach man.

When she starts looking for a new rental this fall, Smith said she plans on making sure the owner actually owns the house and that the home is not going into foreclosure.