1. Take the deposit, room inspection fee, etc. As an existing.
It is one of the means of those intermediary companies to attract customers with promises such as "low price", "refund" and "free room inspection fee", and then seize the money of consumers who have gained nothing by constantly making things difficult. Some intermediary companies publish information about low-priced houses in newspapers. Once consumers pay the inspection fee or deposit, the intermediary companies will immediately inform consumers that low-priced houses have been rented out, leaving only rooms with higher rental prices, and find out various reasons to delay the refund until consumers are dragged to give up.
2. Distribute false advertisements to lure renters into taking the bait.
Intermediaries often provide some rootless housing information to renters. In the company, they pretend to page the so-called "landlord" in front of the renters, talk about the housing situation on the phone, and then give the paging number to the renters to collect information fees. But often when the renters call the "landlord" again, there is no news. Since then, I have repeatedly obtained the pager number from the intermediary, but when the renter asks for a refund, it is hundreds.
3. Refusing to refund the deposit
There are also some intermediary salesmen who deliberately induce renters to exchange contact numbers with homeowners when showing them houses. When the renter was dissatisfied with the house afterwards, the intermediary company established contact with the renter and the homeowner, and refused to refund the deposit on the pretext of the success of the intermediary. So, if the real estate agent asks you to pay to sign the contract, you should be patient. Even if you are in a hurry, you should first look at the contract between this company and you (read it carefully first, then sign it, no one will rob you) and learn to safeguard your own interests!
4. Never stand up
Using "trust" as the owner, creating all kinds of obstacles so that renters can't see the house, thus countering the deception of "biting" renters, is also a commonly used method of "making money" by illegal intermediaries.
5. Say "investment" first.
It is also a kind of cheating to cheat on the grounds that renting a house needs to install communication facilities and go through the formalities of renting a house.
It is reported that an international student from China wants to rent a house in a residential area. He found a real estate agent not far from the school. With the help of the company, he took a fancy to a fully decorated public house with two bedrooms and one living room, and paid a deposit and six months' rent. During this period, the intermediary company charged several thousand yuan to the foreign students to install the telephone and apply for the foreigner's rental permit, but only lived for three months and was driven out by the landlord. The landlord told me that the lease contract with the intermediary company has expired. The foreigner said that he had installed a telephone, and the landlord told him, "The telephone is already available. Whoever collects your phone bill will want it. " He came to the intermediary to judge, but the company has been "yellow crane sleepless" and spent more than 10 thousand in less than three months.
6. Rent it to several people at the same time
Intermediary business short-term rental of good or about to expire in advance, repeated lending to many people at the same time, charging rent or deposit. The renter promised to hand over the key, and the intermediary gave up the den and ran away.
7. "Gaoming" sublease
The intermediary sublets the short-term rental house to you, claiming that it can be rented for a long time (maybe three days later, the real landlord should come to him), and then pays it in the form of annual or semi-annual payment (mostly sweet words like "paying for half a year" make you fall for it faster), gets your "rent" and runs away.
There are also some intermediary companies that use short-term rental houses to defraud you of the room inspection fee or rental deposit, and then run away.
More "conscience" intermediary companies also sublet the "unreliable long-term" rented house to you to earn the rent difference (rent the house at a low price to you at a high price).
No matter what means are taken, these illegal intermediary companies have a trick to solve disputes, that is, leave the money, change their names, and then advertise to attract customers. These illegal intermediary companies wantonly grab the "information fee" of people who are eager to rent a house, but also make the housing information consulting intermediary service industry notorious.
(The above answers were published on 2015-10-19. Please refer to the actual situation for the current purchase policy. )
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