Tenants want to use the apartment for free
06.03.2009, 11:57 There are bunch of aggressive tenants on
the market, who want to use the apartment for free and only pay utilities,
Jekaterina Petrova, the broker at Pindi wrote to ehitusuudised.net.
Mostly these offers are made to objects, which have been on sale for a long
time. They say that paying utilities for a dwelling which is enough anyway, is
compensation enough.
The owners of dwellings reject these offer, because not paying utilities
isn’t reason enough to give dwelling for unfamiliar person to use.
Anyway, that thing has happened in the small towns, where rent prices are low
and utility costs may be higher than the rent. In that case the owner of a
dwelling has to accept that he/she is not getting any revenue from rent, but
he/she is also not paying for utilities.
In bigger towns this transaction is pointless for owners. There are plenty of
decent renters, who can’t or don’t want to take a housing loan from the bank.
Although there is pressure on the prices, it’s possible to fine a tenant in
couple of weeks, if the price is reasonable.