{"id":797,"date":"2014-10-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bogus-letting-agents-rent-through-airbnb-to-fleece-would-be-tenants\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:25:50","slug":"bogus-letting-agents-rent-through-airbnb-to-fleece-would-be-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bogus-letting-agents-rent-through-airbnb-to-fleece-would-be-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus letting agents rent through Airbnb to fleece would-be tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe owner of this flat let it out for a weekend through Airbnb. She returned to find five \u2018tenants\u2019 \u2013 who\u2019d in total paid \u00a38,500 in deposits and expected to move in permanentlyWhen Ruth Allmark found a flat in a smart part of west London where the room rent was \u00a3780 a month it looked like her dream had come true. The letting agent said the deposit would be \u00a31,000, and told her she needed to make the payment swiftly as he had other potential renters clamouring for it.But the dream became a nightmare after Ruth, 24, paid the \u00a31,780. It turned out the agents were bogus. They had obtained the keys to the flat by renting it off its owner through the website Airbnb for the weekend only, placed an advert on SpareRoom.co.uk saying it was available for long-term rent \u2013 and then fleeced anyone who came to see it. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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