Finding accommodation to rent has today become a real obstacle course, even mission impossible in certain large cities under tension. This is particularly the case in Marseille where requests explode while supply falls. And this imbalance has caused scams to fakes Real Estate adverts in the Phocaean city, reports ProvenceSunday October 1st.
Tugdual, a student from Mayenne, paid 1,200 euros as a deposit and 490 euros for so-called “deposit insurance” to “block” a rental spotted on the site seloger.com, reports the regional newspaper. The accommodation offered, a one-bedroom apartment for 610 euros per month, a rent a third lower than the market average, should nevertheless have aroused caution. “But it’s such a hassle to find accommodation in Marseille and I was so relieved to have found something that I wasn’t suspicious,” he confides to our colleagues. The student ultimately never saw the apartment and the so-called owner, who constantly postponed signing the lease, disappeared…
Contacted via Facebook
Maleek and Camille, too, were fooled. Looking for accommodation for a month in Marseille, the couple, who have been subletting a lot, posted an ad on a page Facebook dedicated to rentals in the city. “Someone contacted us, claiming to be from the company Loge’me. We checked, this platform did exist,” they testify. A certain Pierre, “very nice”, calls them and offers them (…)
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2023-10-01 22:03:24
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