Jiangxi's "lantern damage assessment" rental incident has not ended, and a similar incident has occurred in Jinan, Shandong!
On April 6, a netizen posted a video exposing that because his pregnant wife was due to give birth, she wanted to go home and quit the rented house, and then go back to her hometown to give birth.
This netizen rented the house from May 8, 2023, and the lease period is one year, that is, until May 7, 2024, and paid a one-year rent fee and a deposit of 800 yuan, and signed a rental contract.
When the tenant approached the landlord, the landlord turned out to be a scoundrel and was unwilling to refund the extra month's rent and the deposit of 800 yuan. The key is that the landlord is very tough, and he thinks that it is their rule not to return the deposit.
It is clear in the video that the landlord is very tough, and the rental deposit will not be refunded in any case, and this is the local practice. Later, he explained that he did not find a tenant for a month, so the rental deposit was not returned.
But the tenant has been two months in advance, just like the landlord said, he will not rent this house and will check out early and go home. The landlord thinks that he has not checked out yet, so the money is used to pay for finding a house to rent. That is, he must find a rent a month in advance, which is used as his expense. This is indeed a strange landlord's request.
At that time, because his wife was pregnant, she returned to her hometown, and she didn't worry about it. But the tenant felt very uncomfortable with this dumb loss, so he posted this video on the Internet, which immediately aroused everyone's heated discussion and attention. After all, there was a Jiangxi lantern damage assessment incident first, so this video immediately appeared on the hot search list.
Some netizens said that the lantern was damaged, at least people still went through the motions, and the landlord didn't even have to go through the motions, and directly and unconditionally deducted the landlord's deposit and one month's rent. That's a lot of excesses.
Of course, the tenant also called the relevant department to consult or complain about the problem, but all he got was to let him go through the legal process to solve it. But if you go through the legal process for 800 yuan, even if you win, you won't win much.
As the incident became more and more noisy, the landlord could be said to be notorious, so a person who claimed to be the landlord's daughter stood up to speak for the landlord, thinking that the video posted by the tenant was edited.
In fact, renting a house or not renting a house is the landlord's business, and people came to inform it on April 6, which is equivalent to a month in advance. Of course, if you check out on the spot, it is not, but they also tell you two months in advance to check out and go home. So this daughter is a disservice, let's take a look at the video screenshots.
In other words, the content of what his father said and explained at that time, there was indeed no out-of-context quote in the video, and there was no phenomenon of cutting out. In fact, it is just a kind of unreasonable trouble, unwilling to return the deposit of 800 yuan.
The contract has clearly stated that the deposit must be refunded if there is no debt for the property fee, water and electricity costs, and there is no major damage in the house. It may be that the landlord thinks that it has not expired, and that he has breached the contract in advance. However, people can ask for a refund of 800 yuan without a month's rent, which is also common sense, and the contract period is not in default, and it can also be said that they will check out after a month in advance.
The point is that the landlord actually said that they did not refund the deposit, and said that it is their rule in this place not to refund the deposit. After decades of riding a horse, and often living in a rented house, I haven't heard of this rule.
After all, the video has been on the hot search list, so through contact, the tenant is willing to return the deposit and a month's rent by contacting the tenant to delete the video and eliminate the impact. And he also said that he didn't understand at all, and he was still a friend when he met!
The landlord's requirements are still relatively large, and he should return one month's rent and deposit to the other person first, which is only 1,600 yuan!
At present, this incident has been on the hot search list, and the popularity is increasing! It is impossible to eliminate the impact, but at least the landlord can make up for it!
The key is that the tenant posted this video, and then posted some videos, and the platform remuneration for these alone is far more than 1,600 yuan. So now it's just to make the world hotter and hotter, and the reward that can be exchanged for it will be more.
Of course, this incident has already become popular, so there is also a certain amount of pressure in the local area, after all, he has single-handedly disrupted the local rental market.
Some netizens also left messages, and some places do not refund the deposit for renting a house, after all, the deposit paid is relatively small. This makes some landlords refuse to return the deposit, and some tenants are reluctant to bother with that little money, which seems to have formed this practice!
There are also local netizens who left messages that there is no such rule, this is just the behavior of some black-hearted landlords, but it does not represent the local rental phenomenon.
For this phenomenon, there are some bad landlords everywhere, who are mercenary. Therefore, this phenomenon must be strictly investigated and punished, and they must be punished, and even driven out of the rental market, after all, a rat spoils a pot of soup, and more importantly, it will bring about the side effects of regional economic development.
Perhaps the landlord saw that the tenant's wife was pregnant, and he was unwilling to entangle him with this money, and wanted to seize this money.
But the landlord didn't expect that the tenant's exposure of this matter through online channels would not only make him notorious, but more importantly, the income he received was higher than the 1,600 people deducted by the landlord. This is called leveraging strength, earning traffic, earning fans, and earning the benefits of the platform!
I feel very embarrassed as a Shandong person, it seems that Shandong people should not do such a thing, but the fact happened! I didn't want to write this article, after all, it is a shameful thing, but also dare to face it, and at the invitation of the platform, express my personal opinions!
What do you think about this event?