In the process of buying second-hand houses, we should not only pay attention to the fraudulent behavior of local sellers, but also pay attention to the fact that if we buy houses through real estate agents, the fraudulent behavior of second-hand housing agents will cause serious damage to the interests of buyers. Specifically, what are the deceptive means of second-hand housing agents? I'll give you a detailed answer right away.
First, what are the deceptive means of second-hand housing agents?
In practice, the cheating behavior of second-hand housing agents mainly includes:
1. Interception and fraudulent use of house information.
In addition to intercepting housing rental information, some intermediaries also maliciously defraud other people's housing information. For example, some pretend to be college students and foreign students publish rental information in newspapers that the intermediary is not allowed to talk about. Once someone takes the bait, after questioning clearly, they will regard each other's information as their own housing information resources.
2. Deferred payment. Some intermediaries take advantage of the seller's ignorance of the operation process and deliberately delay the payment to the seller, ranging from one or two months to half a year or even a year. Although most of them were narrowly missed in the end, the days of running an intermediary every day made many people realize what is "nerve-racking".
The capital chain of many intermediary enterprises is very fragile. Once it is broken, the seller may not get the house payment, and there have also been cases in which the intermediary enterprises fled with the money.
3. Fabricate false certificates to defraud agency fees. Some intermediaries create false or untrue advertising information to deceive or lure consumers, including fictional housing, concealing housing quality problems, shoddy and so on. Once the consumer pays the deposit and the agency fee, he will shirk or ignore the consumer for various reasons, and then collect the deposit first and then default. What's more, some intermediaries collude with the owners to trick the buyers into taking the bait, and then make up various reasons to make the transaction fail after the buyers pay the commission or even the deposit after seeing the house.
These three strategies are the usual strategies of housing agencies at present. In addition, earning improper price difference, unreasonable charges, irregular contracts and illegal operations are also the usual tricks of illegal intermediaries.
Second, how do second-hand housing agents guard against risks?
1. To review the qualification of intermediary institutions, we must first review whether the "two certificates" (qualification certificate issued by the Municipal Real Estate Resources Administration and business license issued by the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce) of intermediary companies are complete and verify their authenticity.
2. Try to choose a bigger intermediary company.
3. When signing the contract, there should be a clear agreement on what kind of service the intermediary company provides and the responsibilities of the intermediary company.
4, to personally handle the registration of property rights transfer, to prevent intermediary companies from getting in the way.
In recent years, although the state and local governments have strengthened the supervision of the second-hand housing intermediary market, as far as the current situation is concerned, there are still many intermediaries who use illegal means to make huge profits and harm the interests of consumers, and the chaotic situation has not been fundamentally improved. Property buyers hope to avoid the deception and risks of second-hand housing agents. On the one hand, they can learn more about the relevant knowledge themselves, on the other hand, they can ask lawyers to help them deal with it. After all, lawyers can find legal risks that ordinary people can't.