What to look for when renting/leasing real estate?
Deceived when renting real estate can be the lessers/tenants, but also the owners of real estate.
The number of frauds when renting real estate is constantly increasing. In the nine months of 2023, a total of 1,537 crimes were recorded Fraud, and in 2022, in the same period, 1452 crimes were recorded, an indicator of a steady increase.
Fraud is “an action that involves deliberately deceiving, cheating or manipulating other people in order to obtain some kind of benefit, usually of a material or financial nature (in elderly people it is most often money). This may include misrepresenting, concealing information, or performing something that is contrary to expectations or prior agreement.”
What should you look out for if you want to rent/lease real estate?
If the property is advertised for a lower price than other similar properties and if the owner is still in a hurry to make a deposit or advance payment without having seen the property at all — this is definitely an invitation to beware of fraud when renting/leasing real estate. Most often, the “owner/fraudster” will tell you that he is in a hurry, that he wants a reliable and safe tenant/tenant, that he does not care about earnings but security, and that this is the only reason for the lower price. Since the price is more affordable, you will be told that there are a lot of people interested in rent/lease of real estate, and that if you want you can book it before you arrange an appointment to see the property. The most common images in the ad are quite tempting, and most of the scammers agree to pay an advance to get them real estate“preserves”. Unfortunately after making a payment they soon realize that they have been scammed, and as a rule the fraudster no longer responds.
To make sure that you rent/lease the propertythe owner is obliged before making any payment to inspect the property thoroughly, check the extract from the land registers (you can check it at the link https://oss.uredjenazemlja.hr/public-services/review-lr-bdc).
Ask for a copy of the owner's ID. Compare the information from the identity card with the data from the extract from the land registers. Be sure to conclude an agreement on rent/purchase of real estate.
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What should you look out for if you want to foreclose/lease a property?
Every honest property owner's biggest nightmare is to find an honest and safe renter/tenant for your property. Most property owners who rent or lease their properties have at least once encountered an unfair tenant/tenant. He has the most problems with paying utilities, so it often happens that when leaving the property there are unpaid expenses, and that the owners have no way to pay them. In addition, properties are often in very poor condition. There is a frequent case of smoking in an apartment or keeping pets, unauthorized housing of third parties,...
In order to avoid problems, it is important to establish the exact data of the person using the property by looking at the identity card, conclude a Real Estate Rent/Lease Agreement in which all persons authorized to use the property will be registered, solemnize the Agreement with a notary, check at least initially once a month whether the agreed rules are followed. It is also necessary to take into account overheads, check whether the condition of the consumption meter corresponds to the balance on the received payment receipts.
IMPORTANT!
If you have managed to agree everything, there remains one more detail and it is called Reserve. Namely, the eternal question when renting real estate is who pays the reserve?
The owners of real estate consider that the same should be paid by the tenants/tenant because it covers current expenses such as the cost of cleaning the staircase, the consumption of electricity on the common meter, etc.,
Tenants/tenants believe that the reserve should be paid by the owner of the property because it covers the costs of decorating the building, it is allocated to a common fund from which the landscaping of the residential building is then financed.
In practice, if the reserve is very high because the building is on loan for renovation, the same is paid by the owner of the property, and if the reserve is of standard amounts then it is a matter of agreement, and it is often paid by the lesser/tenant.
Of course it is very important to define the same in the Real Estate Rent/Lease Agreement so that there are no problems later.
To make sure that you have communicated and defined any ambiguities with your tenant/tenant, contact the professionals!
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