Many rental information descriptions are extremely consistent! The lessors all claim to be landladies, hoping to rent out the house to clean the girls. They also motioned for men not to disturb, and then took out some pictures of houses with complete furniture and low prices. Finally, they attached a sentence: "Because I am on a business trip, the cell phone signal is not good. If you are interested, please add WeChat."
The conditions of "women only" and "adding WeChat" seem strange! People who really want to rent a house will not set such wonderful conditions. In the rental information, they generally write like this:
@ Landlord A: XX is a two-bedroom apartment with a small yard on the first floor. Clean and spacious, transparent north and south, 24-hour hot water supply, complete furniture and household appliances, direct rent from the landlord, 2 minutes out to the park, morning market, supermarket, station, Yonghui Supermarket, shopping and catering hospital, mature community and house to take photos.
@ Landlord B: There are several 75-flat two-bedroom apartments for rent in XX Community, which are moderately decorated and can be viewed at any time. Please don't disturb the intermediary! Interested parties please contact telephone number: XXX.
@ Landlord C: Well decorated, complete with household appliances, checked in with a bag, 490 meters away from XX subway station, convenient transportation, complete peripheral facilities, close to XX school, good residential environment and good greening, with security guards on duty 24 hours a day. The owner rents it directly. When you contact me, please say that you saw it on XX website. Thank you!
So, what is hidden behind renting a house and adding WeChat?
The purpose of adding WeChat is marketing promotion.
It turns out that this is a new means to use WeChat for commercial marketing. Once wechat was added, not only did they not find a cheap and beautiful house, but they also became their sales target. I often receive advertisements such as masks and discounts on beauty products. Let you have only one feeling, that is, annoyance! Although this kind of thing has not caused you economic losses, it has also wasted your time and energy in finding a house!
So, how can we avoid being cheated in renting a house?
When looking for a house: try not to find an intermediary.
After renting a house for two years, I understand a truth. Never underestimate the shameless degree of an intermediary!
Here's the thing: I have a friend who is looking for a house through an intermediary. At first, I felt that the whole feeling was good, but the home appliances there were incomplete and the furniture was a little damaged. At that time, the intermediary also promised to help her complete the household appliances and replace the furniture with new ones as long as she decided to rent. Who knows that after signing the contract and paying the middle price, I found that there was no change at all. She went to the landlord, who said she had never promised such a thing. What is even more outrageous is that the intermediary immediately changed his face and completely denied it!
So when renting a house, try not to find an intermediary. Once you sign the contract and they get the agency fee, they don't care. This kind of verbal commitment is absolutely unreliable.
Before viewing the house: you can't pay the "deposit" without viewing the house.
Some scammers use popular houses as bait to attract netizens to call for advice. First, they will make an appointment with you to see the house. A few days later, they suddenly called and said they couldn't come back because of a business trip. Let you pay the deposit by WeChat first, and then show you the house. Some small white tenants will directly call for money when they are confused, and later find that the so-called landlord's phone can no longer be reached. In fact, it is very simple to avoid this kind of scam. Never pay any fees before meeting the landlord and going to see the house on the spot.
When looking at the house: carefully identify the authenticity of the landlord.
Recently, many netizens spit out: "Renting a house is the first time to see the second landlord." In fact, some people deliberately rent a house in the name of the landlord, just to be the so-called second landlord and collect the rent difference between the tenant and the landlord. Many tenants and even landlords are kept in the dark, and Xiao Li is one of them.
Xiao Li, a Guangpiao, just graduated from work and rented a single room in a village in the city. At first, he thought the rent of that single room was a bit expensive, but considering the convenient transportation nearby, he was also anxious to move, so he had to choose to rent it there. But a month later, a self-proclaimed landlord came to collect the rent. Finally, after some understanding, I realized that the person who rented the house to him was originally a tenant, but rented it to him in the name of the landlord, and the rent was twice as expensive as before! Finally, Xiao Li immediately contacted the so-called second landlord, hoping to solve the problem as soon as possible.
Therefore, when you look at the house, you must be clear whether it is the landlord himself who takes you to see the house. If he claims to be the landlord, don't trust him easily. You'd better seize the opportunity to trap him. Ask around the house to see if he is familiar with this neighborhood. You can also get to know your neighbors and see if they come here often. Finally, to be on the safe side, before signing the contract, you can check with the local neighborhood Committee to see if the lessor is the landlord himself.
(The above answers were published on 2016-12-14. Please refer to the actual situation for the current purchase policy. )
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