rental market fraud

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Caution scammers!

I worked for 8 years as a director of the Lease division of a large real estate company in St. Petersburg. Over the years, I had to face various types of fraud in the rental market. I want to tell you about some cases in this article.
Specialist of a large company.
You leave the problem and you receive a call. A person (usually a man) appears to be an employee of a well-known company and offers you options. The options satisfy your needs and you agree to the viewing. You are met by a respectable person who shows you a solidly issued identification card (like red crusts) and accompanies you to the entrance of the house. At the entrance, he draws up an agent agreement with you, takes the money against receipt, hands in the form of the agreement that you must sign with the owner, tells you the apartment number and bows. Five minutes later, a happy tenant, you follow the indicated door, call, and there ... What better I do not know is the silent door or the surprised eyes of the person who was recorded in the Landlord without his knowledge. A curtain.
Tip: At a minimum, transfer the payment for services after concluding a contract of employment and checking on your part the authority of the Landlord (passport and title document for the living quarters). Ideally, the settlement with the agency under the contract should be carried out not on the apartment, but on the territory of the legal entity that provided the service.
Grandma at the cottage
My grandmother lived in an apartment, she didn’t live, and, preparing for the other world, as usual, she registered with her beloved grandson. Let, they say, after death, become the owner, and cheaper and more reliable. And by the summer, she was going to the cottage until the fall. And I had a wonderful time, I must say. Returns in September with the gifts of summer, rested and rejuvenated, to his apartment, and there ... And there the family has been living for three months, and the family has not only been properly executed, but also paid the rent for 6 months in advance. Grandson. Grandma’s. Everybody got it. A curtain.
Tip: Of course, there is a flaw in the agent (if it was), but you should still pay attention to the documents of title. And also - one should not rent non-privatized housing. This is illegal in most cases.
News agencies
By law, they are not scammers. They conclude a contract with you, according to which they provide you with information within a certain period. Contact information of people who intend to lease the property. You pay them, and, in most cases, they provide such information to you. The question is its relevance. At the time of your contact with the owners of the apartments they are already delivered.
Tip: Do not use services of dubious quality.
Evgeny Denisov,
Source: https://www.centerarenda.ru/index.php?p=277

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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It is not easy to rent an apartment (room), and the tenant, of course, tries to use the maximum possibilities. One of them, of course, is real estate agencies. But they often require 100% commission. You don’t give that kind of money for a great life. One fine day, a “client” calls another advertisement from a newspaper, hears “noodles” (a sweet business conversation with confidence). “For only fifty dollars, we are ready to provide many suitable options within a week, and this will be the exact information that all city agencies work with.” You can ask the agents for anything: an apartment renovated for $ 100 in the center - please, an office in a prestigious office building for $ 300 is easy !!! Moreover, the agency’s employees will even let you talk to the owner of the room (apartment) directly from the office, and the “client” will be able to schedule an inspection for the evening of the same day.
As a rule, “the unexpected happens” with the proposed premises and the application disappears. The company, of course, sympathizes and gives a printout of the addresses of apartments (premises), at the first glance at which "eyes are scattered", but this is only at first glance. The client has no chance to find something “alive”, and he soon abandons this hopeless business.
But you should not suspect anyone who offers to buy such a list in the scam, some realtors really try to honestly work in this way and lay out a lot of money so that there is at least something promising in the sheets sent to customers.
Source: https://www.aferam.net/content/view/124/42/

 

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Once, a curious case occurred in one of Moscow real estate agencies, please draw your attention to the fact that such cases occur quite often.
Two young spouses rented a one-room apartment for one year. At the same time, the landlord presented all the necessary documents, which were carefully checked by the agency staff. The newlyweds paid for the first month of residence at the conclusion of the contract, and the last month, as a deposit, after two days. After making a deposit, as expected, a solemn moment of handing the keys and farewell to the landlord took place.

Left alone in the apartment, satisfied people began to inspect it and began to plan in what order they would transport their things, their happiness knew no bounds. But there it was, after half an hour they heard the click of the opening lock. The door was opened by an elderly woman, in her hands was the key to this apartment .. The old woman depicted fright and surprise. Her question is: "Who are you and what are you doing in my apartment?" shocked the tenants. The young people explained to the woman that the rent for this apartment was paid by them, that the man who had rented the apartment showed all the necessary documents and, finally, that they signed a tenancy agreement, so that the dwelling was rightfully ours. The harmless old woman, in turn, wept, talked about her unfortunate share and about the bandits trying to cash in at the expense of a defenseless pensioner. After such heartbreaking stories (tales), customers had no choice but to leave the ill-fated apartment. It’s clear that they started looking for a landlord, but unfortunately they didn’t succeed, because the scammers had everything seized and there were a thousand ways to retreat. Then the couple turned to a real estate agency with the question: "How could this happen and now what to do?" An employee of the company, knowingly asked: "Did the woman show any documents?" and, receiving a negative answer, he explained to them that in addition to tearful stories, the old woman should also have documents for the apartment, registration, etc. Thus, it turned out that the woman has nothing to do with this apartment, and the sad story she told is nothing more than a cheap performance.
After a brief confusion, the clients decided to return to the apartment again and get explanations from their grandmother, but the grandmother disappeared without return, which was to be expected. The spouses remained to live in the housing they paid for, taught by bitter experience.
It’s easy to explain this episode: the landlord of this apartment conspired with a certain woman (third party) who was trying to evict tenants. This system works especially effectively in cases where employers are weak-minded and not particularly savvy in order to immediately understand what is the matter. Thus, an apartment can be rented more than once and earn good money. It is not possible to prove the fact of fraud in such situations, the landlord will necessarily declare that he does not know anything about any third parties, the apartment is vacant, the tenants have the keys, there is no corpus delicti. Therefore, I want to warn tenants: enter into transactions only through real estate agencies, because they have a license and other documents for conducting this activity, of course they are not willing to lose their established business for years at a time. Carefully check the landlord's documents, and if such "third parties" appear in your apartment, be sure to ask them for documents, do not take their word for it, because for this they came to court.
Source: http: //www.aferam.net/content/view/118/42/

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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