It's so hard to rent a house! Now 58 cities, the rental information on the market is almost monopolized by the intermediary!
Let me tell you, yes, the real estate agent deliberately monopolized the listing information. Working in a chain home during my internship at the university is shocking. No matter whether the personal listing information is for sale or rent, posted on the Internet or on a sticker, the real estate agent will contact the owner first (don't ask them why they contacted the owner first, they will find the listing in various ways half the time, because after the transaction, the housing provider will also get a commission). Through telephone harassment, language temptation and other means, let the owners give them the housing information, it is best to sign an exclusive agreement and give them the house key. In the agreement, there will be a clause prohibiting contact with housing agency customers. Then put up the house, and if a customer comes to see the house, he will first ask the customer to sign an agreement that can't communicate with the owner privately. In the process of looking at the house, the staff of the housing agency never leave the meeting between the owner and the customer, and take strict preventive measures. There is no chance for private contact between the two sides. In this transaction process, they will use various measures to promote the success of the transaction, such as raising the rental price, making the landlord save the agency fee (both parties charge the agency fee), deceiving both parties to continue the transaction negotiation by helping to raise the price and bargain, attracting customers to the door with false low-priced and high-quality housing, and then recording customer information, helping the owner to hide the defects of the house and deceive customers, deliberately raising the house price information to pretend to help customers lower the price or overcharge the agency fee. Publish false transaction price records to raise the overall house price and charge more agency fees. It can be said that real estate agents are basically people from the bottom of society who have no education, because the entry threshold set by the intermediary company itself is very low, and everything depends only on performance. As for professionalism? Hehe, the intermediary company won't tell you at all, because the industry itself has no moral bottom line. The above means are the basic means that the company will give you after you join the company. As for the more advanced ones, I will gradually teach you in the process of closing the transaction, such as artificially setting obstacles to overcharge agency fees, how to get rid of the basic responsibilities that the intermediary should bear, and so on, not to mention what guarantee responsibilities the intermediary company should bear. It can be said that this is the hidden rule of the housing intermediary group, and it is extremely useful to use legal loopholes.