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The peril of a student
I am a first year student at university and I was recently looking for a place to live with three of my friends.
We eventually found a house we liked and we decided that we were going to go for it. This was before we woked out the costs.
Because we were going through an agent and not the landlord directly, we were required to pay, within the week, a £400 "administration fee" each. This would be non refundable at any stage, and if one of our group didn't pay for something in the future we ALL lost this money.
Also, before the 1st of June, three months before we moved in they wanted a full month's rent and two half month's rent. This came to around £650. There was also a £100 holding fee and somewhere there was a damage deposit.
Basically they wanted over £1000 off us before we had even moved in which is, to me it seemed, a huge amount for a student to pay ending up with the agency having £4000.
Needless to say we didn't go ahead..
(Sat 17th Feb 2007, 12:02, More)
The peril of a student
I am a first year student at university and I was recently looking for a place to live with three of my friends.
We eventually found a house we liked and we decided that we were going to go for it. This was before we woked out the costs.
Because we were going through an agent and not the landlord directly, we were required to pay, within the week, a £400 "administration fee" each. This would be non refundable at any stage, and if one of our group didn't pay for something in the future we ALL lost this money.
Also, before the 1st of June, three months before we moved in they wanted a full month's rent and two half month's rent. This came to around £650. There was also a £100 holding fee and somewhere there was a damage deposit.
Basically they wanted over £1000 off us before we had even moved in which is, to me it seemed, a huge amount for a student to pay ending up with the agency having £4000.
Needless to say we didn't go ahead..
(Sat 17th Feb 2007, 12:02, More)