The house next door,
the one with the red door,
remains without renters.
Rent is reduced to 2560.00 and still no one moves in.
Bob and I were sitting out back by the pool, me yelling so he could hear me, and suddenly I heard,
HELLOOOO THERE! and looking to the fence area, behold a man hanging over the fence, and when we stood up, he said just wanted to ask a few questions about this house
neither of us heard him over there until he yelled at us.
would you have yelled across the fence?
a few days later I am reading in the bedroom, and I hear
HELLLO THERE! Hey, hello! Hello There
and I realize Bob is working on the pool, a man is hollering and rushing to
the door I see bob, pushing the pole back and forth with no
clue the man is calling out to him.
His hearing gets worse by the day.
This was yet another person wanting to ask about the house
I went out to tell him Bob can't hear; he says neither can I and wanted to roll my eyes.
I found out from him the reason the house is not renting, they charge 75 dollars for each person who is interested in renting, to do credit/background check,
Anyone interested in renting pays the fee and they decide who qualifies.
He said he had applied for 3 houses and lost his 75 on each one.
the fee is NON REFUNDABLE
15 comments:
Hi Sandra, you ought to charge the real estate agent a fee for helping potential renters :) I am a bit slow catching up but good to be seeing what you have been up to. I like that red door on the house.
Oh my word. I have never heard of such a thing. $75 is a lot of money to lose if you don't end up qualifying. Especially if you have to pay that for every one you look at.
Hello,
You are nice to help out with the questions about the house. I think the credit check should be free. Maybe they should give up trying to rent the house and just sell it to someone else. Take care, have a happy day!
Hari OM
Okay, I guess that the fee is because they have had rent defaulters before... however, to charge every viewing and non-refundable is atrocious. In OZ, there was a law passed for credit checking, which is fair enough - but the onus was on the renter to obtain a one-off, JP-authorised certificate of proof of funds and credit standing; thus, a single fee and copies could be taken by any agent offering views. YAM xx
Happy New Year.
I'll take the red door...
OMDs I read yesterday's saga my B has had several middle of the night coughing spells over the last two weeks. I 'think' he is getting better
not well but not coughing as much
Hugs Cecilia
Now you have me wondering what (if anything) you yelled back at them... ;-)
I'm so in love with the red (door) and dove gray exterior ... how you framed the picture with those red berries(?).
I've mixed feelings about that $75/per. Sure, I feel sorry for that potential renter, but have to wonder what his background report revealed. Given the last couple years, my sympathies lie (lay?) more with landlords who are stuck with tenants they can't legally evict. Seems they could pull the same information for less $, tho.
It is the same exact way renting apartments.
Phil nearly jumped off the couch when I told him the rental price, and the credit check fee. And there is nothing special bout the house from the outside either. How many bedrooms and baths...could that be it? Or just the high Florida prices? Now I want to see inside. I bet you could find some windows with no curtains to snap thru! Keep us posted. All I know is, whoever rents it will be terribly rich.
That's a lot of money to have to put out all the time. I thought it usually was the renter's responsibility to get credit check paperwork a one time deal.
Brother...those prices are very close to California prices..everything is going up, so expensive.. I really don't know how any of us can survive.
Sue
Wow, that was a different experience. I doubt I would have said anything over the fence. I have never heard of paying that but I guess it is understandable yet not worth it if you are not picked.
GOOD GRIEF!!! That's just crazy! And who has that kind of $$$ anyway????
That is ridiculous...I wonder if they are just saying no one qualifies in order to.make more $...I wonder who owns it and if they know how this is being done.
I understand credit checks but the cost and for every application! That's mad. There is a business opportunity for someone to be an independent agency as in pay them once, get the credit check and tell the landlod the credit check is held by the agent who will verify it. Otherwise it is just a charge for viewing and you don't know whether they have even done the credit check before they reject you. Xxx Mr T and F
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