Asked by Mr. Ryan Michael
I want to know if its normal for me to have to pay commission for renting a condo from the agent of a landlord that i found myself. This agent is working for the landlord and wants me to pay half the commission. I did not employ this agent to work for me, i found the condo online myself.
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Thankyou for your response. I was very disappointed to find out that I am being deceived by this agent:
Benjamin Poon
[mob] (65)8128 5225
[email] ben.poon@mail.com
Senior Mkt'g Director (R013275Z)
ERA Realty Network Pte Ltd (L3002382K)
When i told him that I had heard it was the law that he cannot ask for commission from both parties. He said that after he made the 'deal' with the land lord for us. He 'requested me" to top up the 2 weeks rent out of our own pocket. He said that since we were getting only a 12 month lease that the land lord only paid him 2 weeks rent and not 4 week and so he wanted us to pay the difference .
Then he came back to us a second time and said I can get the rent down by another hundered if you pay me 2 weeks rent without letting us know that he wanted to now represent us as an agent. So was basically circumventing the rules to avoid breaking the law.
I feel very dissapointed in the whole system. We really like this place