Preface
Not long ago, there was a new word that became popular, called "lantern damage assessment".
Some of you may already know about this, but in order to let those who have not heard of it know, I will talk about it again.
To put it simply, when a tenant in Yushan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province checked out, the landlord's family of four came out, holding searchlights and conducting a detailed inspection of every corner. From bed slats and bedsides to paint and putty, leave nothing undone, and even touch it with your hands to confirm its flatness.
A red plastic stool, you have to pick it up and look at it carefully, I don't know, I think this is the ancestral mahogany stool in the family.
What's even more exaggerated is that even the squatting urinal has to be carefully inspected with a searchlight, for fear that you will damage it during use.
What's more, we noticed that this family of four behaved unusually skillfully.
This shows that this is not the first time they have done so.
To add background information, the tenant, Xiao Chen, leased the house on September 5, 2023. On September 27, due to the noisy neighborhood caused by the children's noisy going up and down the stairs, Xiao Chen chose to quit the rent. Before checking out, she cleaned the house and waited for the landlord to accept it.
The scene described at the beginning of the article then takes place. Xiao Chen is not renting a high-end apartment or luxury residence, but an ordinary county rental house, with a rent of 1,200 yuan per month. Although she had only lived for 22 days, she offered to have the remaining rent and deposit refunded on a full month basis. However, after inspecting the house, the landlord angrily replied to Xiao Chen with the following message.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Chen was instantly stunned.
Before she could recover her senses, the landlord had sent her a list of 16 compensations.
Therefore, renting a house for 1,200 yuan a month only lived for 22 days, but it led to a loss of more than 10,000 yuan.
In this way, Xiao Chen's daily losses are as high as more than 500 yuan.
Xiao Chen thought to himself, the money he earns from going to work every day has not been ruined, is this reasonable?
In the end, the landlord even asked for 2,000 yuan for "other damage compensation", but he couldn't find a reason, so he directly added "other".
In short, you can't run away with this money, who let you meet our family of four, who let you meet me, the landlord?
Seeing this, attentive netizens should have found the problem
Why is the incident in September last year only coming to light now?
It turned out that in October last year, the matter had been preliminarily resolved. The original compensation of more than 10,000 yuan was reduced to 4,000 yuan after coordination, and Xiao Chen and the co-tenant each bear 2,000 yuan. The lease period is only 22 days, not only the deposit and the remaining rent are not refunded, but also an additional 2,000 yuan in compensation. I wonder if this approach actually solves the problem or encourages greedy landlord behavior.
Xiao Chen is a migrant worker from other places and decided to settle the matter. But the landlord was not satisfied, thinking that the compensation of 4,000 yuan was too little. On March 22, the landlord chased and beat Xiao Chen with a brick, and Xiao Chen was pregnant at the time. Worried about her personal safety, she exposed the matter on the Internet, causing concern.
Yushan County set up an investigation team and issued a notice on April 3 that the landlord, Guo Moulin, was administratively detained and fined for intentional injury. The compensation form of 10,000 yuan proposed by him is unreasonable, and the compensation has been returned after education.
Of course, this is not enough. As early as 2016, Jiangxi Province issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Planning and Management of Rural Housing Construction", stipulating that the area of rural housing construction shall not exceed 350 square meters, and the number of building floors shall usually not exceed three. In November 2023, the Administrative Measures for Self-built Houses in Rural Areas of Jiangxi Province were officially implemented, further clarifying that the upper limit of the area of self-built houses by villagers is 350 square meters, and usually does not exceed three floors. However, the landlord's house did not comply with this rule.
In many people's minds, building violations usually refer to the erection of sheds and the installation of electric installations. However, looking at this illegal building, which was originally stipulated to be 3 floors, it has been doubled.
As a rough estimate, the house has a built-up area of about 600 square meters. Since this is a rural self-built house, the cost of land is not taken into account, only the cost of construction is calculated.
According to the local standard cost of 2,600 yuan per square meter, the total price of this six-story small building is about 1.56 million yuan.
The report of the joint investigation team clearly pointed out that there were illegal buildings in the houses involved and that they would be dealt with in accordance with the law.
What's new
According to the latest developments in Yushan County, the illegal houses will be demolished, and the method and specific time of demolition have been determined and are being studied. In addition, a fine of about 100,000 yuan and the same amount of demolition and cleaning costs need to be paid, plus the construction cost of 1.56 million yuan, and the landlord Guo will lose a total of 1.76 million yuan.
In rural areas, it is not easy to spend 1.56 million yuan to build a six-storey house, which shows the strength of his family. However, after investing a huge amount of money, he asked the tenant for an extra 10,000 yuan, and after only receiving 4,000 yuan, he was still not satisfied, and even chased the pregnant woman.
What is the reason for such an outrageous and unreasonable behavior?
Write at the end
Let's imagine again that if the landlord hadn't been so arrogant in chasing and attacking the pregnant woman, causing her extreme worry and fear, maybe she wouldn't have chosen to expose it online. If the landlord hadn't cornered the victim, he might still be in the business of assessing damage to his lamps.
Judging by the proficiency of the family, it is not known how many tenants have been victims of their fraud. This type of person will not give up easily, once the first victim is successfully blackmailed, there will be a second and a third, and they will become more and more bold and greedy.
Perhaps at first, the landlord just deducted the tenant's rent and deposit under various excuses, and the tenants chose to be patient. Seeing this, landlords became more rampant and began to demand not only rent and security deposits, but also additional compensation. From 2,000 yuan, 3,000 yuan, and 5,000 yuan, to now asking for compensation of up to 10,000 yuan, this is undoubtedly a sky-high price for an ordinary dilapidated house with a monthly rent of 1,200 yuan without a toilet.
More importantly, when dealing with this problem, why did the local authorities not discover in time that it was an illegal building and immediately demolish it, and why did they still ask the victim to pay 4,000 yuan in compensation to the evil landlord?
What was originally just a problem of greedy landlords bullying tenants is actually easy to solve. Does the amount of compensation he seeks meet the standard of extortion? However, due to the improper handling of the relevant departments, the impact of the incident and public opinion have intensified, which has affected the image of the entire county and even Jiangxi Province.