I’m sure someone will. It’s a relatively small amount of money compared to, say, rent itself. And if you think you’re getting some material benefit from the service, you could be gulled into it.
I’m more curious to see if this becomes “normal”. Like, if a cartel of rental agencies all decide they’re not getting enough in referrals and need to juice their profits directly from the customer, then this pops up everywhere.
At one point I worked in a role where I helped people with tech issues, including getting printing and scanning done for documents that needed to be signed.
I regularly had people coming with letters to potential landlords for printing/signing/scanning, thanking the landlord for the opportunity to view a rental, noting the listed rent, and offering a higher rent and/or a cash gift if they were the tenant who was selected.
Very illegal and scummy, exploiting desperate people and families. This app feels like the codifying of that shady landlord behaviour.
I’m sure someone will. It’s a relatively small amount of money compared to, say, rent itself. And if you think you’re getting some material benefit from the service, you could be gulled into it.
I’m more curious to see if this becomes “normal”. Like, if a cartel of rental agencies all decide they’re not getting enough in referrals and need to juice their profits directly from the customer, then this pops up everywhere.
At one point I worked in a role where I helped people with tech issues, including getting printing and scanning done for documents that needed to be signed.
I regularly had people coming with letters to potential landlords for printing/signing/scanning, thanking the landlord for the opportunity to view a rental, noting the listed rent, and offering a higher rent and/or a cash gift if they were the tenant who was selected.
Very illegal and scummy, exploiting desperate people and families. This app feels like the codifying of that shady landlord behaviour.
By that logic, grocery stores exploit hungry people. The letter thing doesn’t translate, I guess, but there’s other examples where it would.
I know everyone hates landlords here, but like, why?