Scam when renting an apartment

Scam when renting an apartment 

Got my eye video Russian side about how Yekaterinburg deceive naive customers who want to rent an apartment. 

The scheme is simple in principle. Tenant calls the office of a mediator and says he found an interesting ad apartment with beautiful photos in a convenient location and a great price rent. Mediator is responsible, yes, of course, you can come to our office and buy for 2000 rubles (about 50 U.S. dollars) contact details of the landlord. They say we sell a whole list of these apartments, so you can just choose. 

Naive tenant thinks that $ 50 expels all problems finding an apartment and finally remove an inexpensive and modern apartment in the city center and, of course goes to the office of a mediator. Signing a contract on the provision of intermediary services in the field of information assistance in the search and selection of apartment tenant buys list that readers note consists of 10-15 apartments with telephones owners who give these objects. 

It seems like everyone honestly and decently, but then begins the following ... 

Tenant (who later will gradually realize that he was no tenant and goof) calls the phone number bought to the owner of the apartment that he chose the picture on the Internet and happily announces that he is the best of all who will remove this miracle of real estate. But the owner of not less than happily reports that the apartment "just" passed very nice guys for a couple of months, because nothing can help. 

Of course the tenant not joking, he stops smiling, hastily dialing numbers of the remaining owners of apartments, hoping to take even if not the most beautiful and modern, but at least not completely terrible apartment for rent. But all of the apartments have already been put ... some quite some time. 

Tenant calls to the mediator and requests a refund for the list of apartments that will not give up, but know that for this information will not refund the money. Resentful or sad, sometimes angry he takes the newspaper and begins to look more for an apartment for rent, right now at 2,000 rubles cheaper. 

Someone will read and say: where is DIVORCE??? So tell. 

On the internet, in the newspaper, the magazine tricky mediator is advertised nonexistent apartments with very modern interior and renovation of the coolest designers. Rather flat course where it exists, but most online advertising sales interior design or furniture sets. In this course nobody rents and rent is collected. Under ad words sweet low cost rent and telephone what some Stepan, who also is not no Stepan, and Sergei Ivanovich, who is also manager of the mediation firm that sells lists apartments gullible tenants. 

Get it? You picked up the newspaper and saw photos of apartments for rent with a chic repair and furniture of your dreams for $ 250 per month. You expect to find something simpler and $ 300 per month. Would you buy a phone contact the owner of the apartment for $ 50 from a reseller? Fair to say that someone will say no, but most happily run shoot this apartment paying $ 50 good mediators and not even realizing that the apartment of your dreams does not exist on the market! 

"And what about the contract?" - You ask ... Yes, exactly, the treaty was written, but only there was very vague about what the mediator ensures compliance contact information those objects which are on the list and if the list is not suitable for a single tenant apartment, provide other options for real estate for three days. 

What follows from this? And the fact that the intermediary does not violate the contract, all the phones were real. And the fact that there is no longer available apartments, so it's not scary, yet three days more options of apartments, even better ... but can be expensive ... and maybe they never will. 

When deceived by the tenant to the mediator comes complain they show him he signed a contract and ask quietly and peacefully retire and not to shame.

http://en.rentapartment.kiev.ua/info/afera_pri_arende_kvartir