How to rent an apartment correctly: safe tips

Many prospective tenants find it safer to rent from agencies. Say, in case of deception, there is someone to complain about. But this is not always true. It also happens. You find in the newspaper information about a real estate company that provides a database of apartments for rent for a small fee. You go to the agency, deposit money and get the coveted list. After that, start calling the phones listed in it. It turns out that the database is out of date. Then you go back to the firm to file a claim and get your money back. The company gives you to re-read the contract you signed, and it says that the agency provides information services, the client pays money for them. According to such a document, it is impossible to present a claim to the company. After all, the information has been received, but the fact that the apartments are rented out is not the fault of the realtors.

The Internet is replete with ads offering to settle in an apartment for a minimum amount. Posing as agents, fraudsters promise to give the address of the apartment after the client pays money for the services (for example, transfers them to a mobile phone account). When asked why decent housing in the city center is rented out for free (you just have to pay for utilities), they answer that the apartment owners go abroad or to another city and want someone to look after the property. Sometimes an apartment comes with a cat to feed or a dog to walk with. Of course, having received the coveted address of housing, you will find out that no one is renting it out.

It happens that the price indicated in the ad does not cause concern, and the realtor does not ask for commission in advance. But even in this case, a catch is possible. For example, when you look at a property, you sign a lease. You give money immediately for the first and last months of residence and commissions (usually they are equal to the monthly rent). Say goodbye to the owner of the apartment and the agent and go to pack your things. Returning to your new home, you see strangers. They may also have a lease. You call the police. The arriving employees find out that the real owner of the apartment is indeed renting it out, but by the day. And the house was rented by scammers, it was with them that you communicated, mistaking them for a real estate agent and an apartment owner. They entered into a fake contract within XNUMX hours not only with you. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find and punish deceivers in such cases. As well as getting the money back. Fraudsters arrange short-term leases, as a rule, according to someone else’s documents or without them at all.

And it happens like this. You rent an apartment, pay money, check documents and move into an apartment. Looking through the certificate of ownership, you do not pay attention to the fact that the person with whom you enter into an agreement only owns a share of the apartment. Therefore, it does not have the right to single-handedly, without securing the consent of other owners, to infuse tenants. As a result, a conflict begins. The owner of the other share calls the police and evicts the tenant. The contract is declared invalid. Of course, it can be challenged in court, but rarely does anyone want to waste time, spend money on a lawyer to get the rent back. By the way, sometimes the co-owners of an apartment collude. They stage a situation in which one owner agrees to rent out a house, and the other is categorically against it.