How to rent a house directly from the landlord online?

I am a northern suburb family. Since graduation, I have rented a house six times and moved five times. Experienced the eggshell storm, rented a free apartment, got a deposit from an unscrupulous intermediary, and met all kinds of roommates. Generally speaking, it is still inconvenient to rent an intermediary house directly. After drawing a painful lesson, my good friend and I finally decided to find a house in Beijing that directly signed a contract with the landlord.

There are generally two ways to directly sign a contract with the landlord to find a house. One is to ask an intermediary for help, and then we can directly dock with the landlord. The advantage is that there are many areas to choose, and the rent can also be negotiated with the intermediary. The disadvantage is that the agency fee is too expensive, which is basically equal to one month's rent, and the more expensive the house we rent, the higher the agency fee. The other is to contact landlords on various platforms through network channels. The disadvantage is that there are few houses, but occasionally you can meet suitable ones. The second method I chose saved thousands of agency fees after all!

Let's talk about the first intermediary channel.

I only recommend Freedom and Home Link for the following reasons:

1. There will be cases where the intermediary runs away and pays the money but doesn't have a house to live in (especially some partition/public rental houses will force you to move once they are reported, even if this happens, the agency fee will not be refunded to you).

2. We paid the agency money, but they didn't care about anything, such as no maintenance and no cleaning (we paid 1000+ service fee to the small agency, including cleaning once every two weeks, but we only came to clean once a year. There is no way to get the money back because the contract is not clear enough.

3. If you don't refund the deposit, or deduct a part of the deposit (this is the case with the small intermediary I rent a house, and the deposit is deducted by one or two hundred. Most people are too lazy to argue with them, but there is no such thing.

The agency fee is very expensive.

At least chain comfort can help you eliminate the first three shortcomings.

Precautions:

1. Shell is just an information collection platform, including the houses of free chain homes and other small intermediaries. Be careful when renting a house.

2. There are many houses in the intermediary. If we look at the house about a week in advance, it will be fine. It's too early to put the house.

Don't give any deposit or down payment. Before signing the contract, the intermediary will use sweet words to trick you into paying the deposit, but at this time all he said was verbal agreement and could not tell the truth.

If you are optimistic, sign the contract directly. All the rules and regulations are written in the contract, and there are written records to protect our rights and interests.

4. If the intermediary says that it is signed directly with the landlord, it is necessary to look at the landlord's real estate license and ID card. If you can't get it out, you won't sign the contract, so here, the importance of the above item is highlighted. If you give a deposit, but the landlord can't produce the property certificate, it means that there is something wrong with the property, either you bite the bullet and sign, or you can only pay the deposit.

The second is to find a landlord to rent directly through online channels.

There are three main channels, the first is Shui Mu community and douban, the second is idle fish, and the third is 58 cities.

1) Shui Mu Community and Douban

First-tier cities, such as Beishangguang, can search directly in this link. This platform integrates the posts of Beiyou people and Shui Mu community renting houses. /Management/Beijing

This link could have been used to search for the post of renting a house in Douban, but it doesn't work now. If you need it, you can only find it in the douban group. For example, if you want to rent a house in Hefei, you can search for "Hefei Renting House" in Douban, and the columns of "Finding a Roommate" and "Subletting" are very useful. (The "landlord direct rent" group is basically an intermediary. The judgment method is: the intermediary is too lazy, only sends pictures and titles, and does not introduce the information of the house in detail. Real landlords usually introduce their house information carefully. )

2) How to use idle fish to rent a house?

Select a city on the homepage, and then click Rent-> Select Shared Rent/Whole Rent-> Continue to choose the location you want to rent, and then click Filter->? Check the individual-> choose the house with the words direct rent. So basically all the real landlords have been found, but there are really too few houses for idle fish, so we can only take a chance. In addition, a dialogue with the landlord is attached. Before going to see the house, you can contact the landlord first, ask all the questions you want to ask first, and remember to bring up the house inspection book!

3) Finally, talk about how to use 58 to rent a house in the same city.

Comparatively speaking, 58 posts will be a little more than idle fish. The operation steps are as follows: on the home page, select the city > click on the lease-> select the shared rent or the whole rent-> click on the individual. Be sure to check the personal option, so that the selected property is directly rented by the landlord.

Precautions:

1.？ If you rent a house directly with the landlord, you must look at the house on the spot, mainly to see if the bathroom and kitchen are clean. Remember to open the kitchen cabinet to see if there are any cockroaches. . . .

2.？ Everyone tries to find a landlord who can talk, the kind of landlord who dallies and talks, and tries not to have contact with him. There will be a lot of communication in the follow-up housing, and such people will be very laborious to communicate! For example, when I rented the first landlord's house, I discussed with the landlord to change the electrical appliances in the house before renting, and the landlord readily agreed. Sure enough, the communication with the landlord was very smooth.

3.？ Beijing and the landlord rent a house directly, and everyone remembers to report to the community. Under normal circumstances, the landlord will not help you report the contract you signed to the community. If you have the need to apply for a residence permit, and there are students who feel safer like me, you'd better report it to the community. This is optional.

My share is here, I hope everyone can rent a satisfactory house! !