How to rent an apartment without cheating?

To date, find a rented apartmentquite easily - hundreds and thousands of the most diverse ads are in newspapers and magazines, on the Internet or just on poles and doors of entrances. You can also contact the real estate agency or a private realtor.

When looking for housing through an agency or privaterealtor there is always a risk of "running into" Kidalovo. There are many variants of this "kidalov". For example, realtors can take a prepayment from the tenant and disappear, they can rent the same apartment to ten tenants and, after taking the money, again disappear.

To protect yourself from this fraud, you should very carefully approach the choice of intermediaries, or extremely cautious to seek housing independently.

Offers to pay a deposit beforeshown housing, should alert. Particular vigilance should also be shown if the proposed price is much lower than the market average for this type of apartment - it is entirely possible that something is "unclean". It may be that this price is just a bait, in fact, the apartment is much more expensive.

When applying to a real estate office, you shouldyou can collect more information about it. How long has the agency existed? How about it the owners of habitation, the former tenants respond? What documents confirm the legitimacy of the agency?

It is also necessary to find out for whichit is services the agency takes payment for. A bona fide agency will take its commission only after concluding an agreement between the tenant and the landlord. But it may happen that the potential tenant agency will offer only an information base with the addresses of the apartments that are being rented. True, how many of these addresses are real - this is a big question ...

When self-searching for an apartment, the riskto run into scammers even higher. For ads like "rent an apartment without intermediaries" may well hide those same intermediaries. Therefore, the first thing you need to demand from the prospective homeowners is a passport and documents for the right to own this housing.

If in the apartment other than the owner are also registered other persons, for example, members of the family, then they must give their consent to the lease, otherwise the transaction will not be considered lawful.

To date, the best and, in principle,The only way to protect yourself from apartment fraud is to conclude a written contract between the tenant and the landlord. At what legal force such a contract is received only after notarization by a notary.

In the contract of employment, which must be concluded betweenthe landlord and the landlord must specify the passport data of both parties, the exact address of the apartment that is rented, the term of the lease, the rental price and the order of payment (monthly, with a prepayment, etc.). Also in the contract it is necessary to write down the responsibility of the parties for the condition of the apartment and the property in it, to specify who the employer or landlord will pay utility bills.

It is recommended to additionally indicate in the contract persons who will live in an apartment with the employer, describe the conditions for possible apartment repairs.

The more possible disputable issues will becovered in the contract, the less problems will arise in conflict situations. Therefore, the contract should regulate even visits by the owner of the apartment to check the order. So, usually the owner of the apartment visits her about once a month, having previously agreed with the tenant.

During a meeting with a potential landlordIt is necessary to question him in great detail about the terms of employment, any inaccuracies should be immediately clarified. You can ask the landlord to give the phone numbers of his former tenants and neighbors and ask them about this apartment.

When the apartment is selected, the contract is concluded, it is required to make an advance payment. Money should be given only on receipt - otherwise it will be impossible to prove later that the landlord has received the money, it will be impossible.