China News Service, Hangzhou, September 1 (Zhang Bin, Guo Qiyu, Chen Yiru) Regarding the recent accident of two long-term rental apartment companies in Hangzhou, which caused damage to the interests of tenants and landlords, reporters from Chinanews.com interviewed the Hangzhou Housing Rental Management Service Center and The Hangzhou police and other departments have learned that the police have been involved in the investigation. In addition, the competent department will further strengthen supervision by requiring the city's leasing companies to set up special accounts for rent collection and payment, and establish white lists.
According to reports, on August 29, Hangzhou Shixiang Technology Co., Ltd., a long-term rental apartment company, was out of danger, and it was only two days after the insurance was out of insurance for another parent-rental apartment brand in Hangzhou.
The reporter checked with the Hangzhou police and learned that the police have been involved in the investigation.
The staff of the Hangzhou Housing Rental Management Service Center stated that the center has immediately contacted the residential construction department of the district where the involved company is located, contacted the person in charge of the relevant company, checked the current status of the company's operations on the spot, and properly handled follow-up matters.
The scene of the press conference held by the Hangzhou Housing Rental Management Service Center.
Photo by Chen Yiru
It is reported that long-term rental apartments are profitable by renting the owner’s house, performing renovations, furnishing furniture and appliances, and then renting them out to renters.
Some leasing companies have adopted a high-risk business model of "high income and low output, long income and short payment". In this process, the company establishes a pool of funds through rent collection, which may cause risks.
After the relevant enterprises were in danger, the tenants had paid rent and the right to use the house was damaged, and the landlord’s due house rent was also lost.
The aforementioned staff stated that after August 31, Hangzhou Leasing Enterprise Accounts will be brought into supervision.
Before September 30, "custodial" housing leasing companies are required to pay risk prevention and control funds as required.
After that, the competent authority will publicly announce the whitelist of leasing companies, and the tenants and landlords can choose.
According to reports, the Hangzhou Housing Leasing Management Service Center will accelerate the fund supervision work, and will issue risk warnings to companies that fail to implement fund supervision work as required, and at the same time will increase publicity to increase consumer risk awareness and enable them to understand the market through multiple channels The level of rent.
Consumers should also avoid paying rent for more than 3 months at a time.
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