Using high-priced housing and low-priced rental routines, the landlord has no hope of collecting rent after the payment runs off, and the tenants are forced to move
Some housing trusts in Kunming are completed by landlords and tenants
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Some hosting companies receive monthly rent for the house from the landlord at a high price, and rent it to the tenant at a low price but collect 1 year’s rent, and then “run away” with the money; some hosting companies actually decorate the company’s shell, more for Earn renovation costs.
The number of cases caused by breaches of contract by housing trustee companies such as "running off the road" has increased year by year, which has aroused social concern.
With vacancies in hand, finding tenants is a bit troublesome. If someone does it for you, it will save worry and effort.
But things are unpredictable!
Behind the good things, there are hidden traps.
In recent years, some housing intermediary companies have been dissatisfied with obtaining intermediary fees. Instead, as a "lessee" or "lessor", they have collected the house and leased it out to earn the rent difference.
As a party to the house lease contract, intermediary companies have been increasing the number of cases caused by breaches such as "running off the road".
Recently, the Housing Management Center of the Kunming Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau received no fewer than 6 complaints about housing trust disputes.
A reporter from Workers' Daily conducted an investigation.
500 landlords were pitted
In May of this year, Mr. Yao, a citizen of Kunming, published information on the lease of a 95-square-meter residence in Chunyuan Community, Xishan District, Kunming City on 58.com.
Later, a staff member who claimed to be a housing management company in Chongqing Yicheng found him through a phone number registered on 58.com.
"I originally rented out for 1,500 yuan a month. This staff member said that he could help me rent out at a high price, but the rent can only be paid monthly, and there is a 45-day vacancy period for the house. From 1,500 yuan to 2,000 yuan for external renting, I think the conditions are good, so I promised to hand over the house to them." Mr. Yao said.
The contract was signed and the house was handed over to this company. Mr. Yao got the deposit and the first month's rent. When it was time to collect the second month's rent, the company owner ran away.
Later, Mr. Yao went to the tenant in private and learned that his house was actually rented to the tenant for 1,200 yuan a month, which was not the 2,000 yuan as originally stated.
Moreover, the company charged the tenants a one-year rent and a one-month deposit.
"High-income and low-selling, isn't this obviously a set-up! I went to the police station to report the case and found out that there are more than 500 landlords like me in Kunming." Mr. Yao said.
Not only the landlord, but also the tenants who rent through the hosting company, are even more anxious.
Citizen Miss Zhou said that at the end of last year, I rented a house through a real estate brokerage company, with a monthly rent of 1,300 yuan.
Ms. Zhou paid half a year's rent, deposit and service fee to the trustee company at one time.
However, what she didn't expect was that she had only moved in for a while, and the trouble came.
The hosting company suddenly ran away, and the real landlord did not receive the rent.
Nowadays, the landlord wants to take back the house, but he is forced to move out after paying the rent.
Custodian company has hidden traps
For ordinary tenants, housing hosting companies can provide sufficient housing, relatively affordable prices, and standardized living conditions.
For the landlord, the advantage of handing over the house to the hosting company is that it is convenient and worry-free. "Lying down and collecting rent" looks really beautiful.
However, since last year, there have been endless news on the Internet about the runaway and loss of contact with housing hosting companies.
"Under normal circumstances, the trusteeship company collects the house from the landlord at a price lower than the market price and rents it out after the price increase. On the one hand, it can earn the price difference and on the other hand it can earn a commission. This is a normal business without any criticism." Kunming Xin Mr. Zhang, Deputy Sales Manager of Asia Real Estate, revealed that there are chaos in the market.
Some hosting companies deliberately defrauded the money and directly received the house from the landlord at a high price, and then rented it to the tenant at a low price, but required the tenant to pay the rent for one year at a time, but actually paid the landlord only one month's rent.
Finally, to a certain extent, the money will run away.
There are also some hosting companies that receive the full amount of rent from clients for one year.
Once they had money, they would buy more houses outside, but because of the bad market conditions, the rental rate of houses was not high, so they ran away.
Fei Lin, a staff member of the Kunming Housing Provident Fund Center, told reporters that some trustee companies are actually the shells of decoration companies, and they are more to earn decoration fees.
Although there will be custody services for a period of time, the operation will soon face the situation that the house cannot be rented out.
If the house is not operating well, the hosting company may not pay the rent to the landlord, and the impact can only be that the landlord proposes to cancel the contract.
According to the Bawang contract, they do not need to pay any liquidated damages to terminate the contract.
"We received a complaint before. The landlord was also very careful when signing the contract with the hosting company, and went to the on-site office site to sign the contract, but the company was still lost. After verification, it was found that all office supplies in the contract site were rented on a monthly basis. Yes, it is really hard to guard against." said a staff member of the Housing Management Center of Kunming Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.
Choose housing hosting carefully
Song Xian, a lawyer from Yunnan Xinjinqiao Law Firm, said that before landlords and tenants choose a housing leasing company, they must first understand whether the company is registered with the market supervision department, and whether the company is included in the list of abnormal operations and the list of seriously illegal and untrustworthy companies. Wait.
Second, we must be alert to the temptation of abnormal rents.
Tenants should not be tempted by low rents or rent discounts. Before renting a house, they should understand and compare the market rent levels of similar houses in the surrounding or in the same area. Fall into a trap and be deceived.
Insiders believe that the leasing parties have given birth to a huge market, intermediaries and custodian companies have emerged, and the service itself is not a problem.
How to avoid "runaway" incidents requires market and financial supervision.
At the moment, landlords and tenants must keep their eyes open and choose carefully.
Reporter: Huang Yu