{"id":132206,"date":"2022-12-03T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/renters-forced-to-pay-hundreds-in-unethical-fees-to-secure-homes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:39:04","slug":"renters-forced-to-pay-hundreds-in-unethical-fees-to-secure-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/renters-forced-to-pay-hundreds-in-unethical-fees-to-secure-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Renters forced to pay hundreds in \u2018unethical\u2019 fees to secure homes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nObserver investigation uncovers cases where people were told to sign up to a \u2018zero deposit\u2019 scheme as a condition of their tenancyLetting agencies are earning thousands of pounds in commission and in some cases flouting the ban on tenant fees by forcing renters to sign up to controversial \u201czero deposit\u201d schemes.An Observer investigation has uncovered evidence of pressure-selling tactics by some agencies in England, including cases where people were told they were required to sign up as a condition of securing a tenancy. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Observer investigation uncovers cases where people were told to sign up to a \u2018zero deposit\u2019...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-yom","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57446,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/deposit-free-renting-sounds-good-or-could-tenants-lose-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":132206,"position":0},"title":"Deposit-free renting sounds good \u2013 or could tenants lose out?","date":"June 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r New plans aim to ease the burden of having to find an average \u00a3967. 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