As a rental freelancer who has rented out 2,000+ homes, I'd like to share my experience from the past few years.
There are generally two types of rental contracts, the regular agent version and the landlord-owned version.
Generally, if you rent a neighborhood or a commercial apartment, you will use the agency's version of the contract, which is legal and reasonable, and the legal constraints on both the landlord and the tenant are relatively fair, so this kind of normal will not have a set of rules.
There will be problems with the landlord's own contract for urban village rentals and private apartments, and the terms of this contract are basically favorable to the landlord, the tenant suffers.
There are a lot of traps and schemes on the contract, in various different forms to reflect, many inexperienced tenants do not read the contract directly signed, resulting in a lot of disputes to the time of the withdrawal, the deposit is not returned is very common.
The pitfalls and traps on the contract can be broadly categorized into the following items:
Miscellaneous fees, check-out fees, renewal rules, constraints on the use of the house, and accessory facilities pricing.
One, miscellaneous fees
Miscellaneous fees will generally be in the form of sanitation fees, management fees, network fees, etc. to reflect, there are some will also have a public **** place of water and electricity costs. These costs many times you do not ask, the landlord will not tell you in advance, until you deposit payment, sign the contract only to find out that there are these costs, a minute to let your rental costs up 5-10%.
Tip: When renting a room, try to talk about the all-inclusive price, that is, in addition to the price of utilities, cut the price is also cut according to this total price.
Two, check out costs1. When checking out, the contract will be marked to pay the disinfection fee, sanitation and cleaning fees. Wear and tear fees, etc., these are many times the name of the landlord withholding deposit, in addition to the general did not clean up, health fee is more reasonable, the other is not necessary, and many of the costs of the contract is not labeled with the specific amount of money, but give the amount of money range, the landlord in the withdrawal of the landlord will be a lion's share of picking faults everywhere, withholding hundreds of deposits.
2. Early check out does not return the deposit, this provision is reasonable, where the same, not a set.
Three, renewal rules
This clause, is the most people stepped on the pit, be sure to look at it clearly, generally labeled to XX days in advance to notify the landlord to withdraw, or else automatically renewed one year to deal with. If you do not speak in advance, the landlord will agree to your withdrawal, to the time you return the deposit, according to the terms of the contract, has been automatically renewed for one year, according to the tenant unilateral breach of contract, do not return the deposit!
Four, housing use constraintsContracts will be written on the wall can not be nailed and painted, or a nail at xx price penalty deposit, etc., this clause itself is not a problem, but the room was left inside the former tenant nails or wall damage, etc., the tenant did not pay attention to the time of rent, after a year, the landlord has also forgotten, to the time of the withdrawal will be said to be the time that you get to deduct money.
Tip: When signing the contract, first determine the current state of the house, where there are problems with the walls where there are nails, that electrical problems, take video as evidence.
Fifth, accessory facilities price tagThe landlord in writing the list of furniture and electrical appliances, the price will be marked very high, such as a table 800 yuan, a chair 500 yuan, sofa 1500 yuan and so on. To check out when the furniture is slightly damaged to be compensated according to the price, so the landlord must look clearly when writing the price tag, many are to pit money.