College students have not seen the house for a month after being paid the agency fee by the agency.

　　Yangzi Evening News (correspondent Zhu Tianxuan, reporter Chen Yong) The newly graduated college students rented a house through a real estate agent, and as a result, they paid the agency fee of 400 yuan, and waited for one month without seeing the house. After receiving the call for help, Nanjing Xuanwu police intervened in the investigation and found that the young man was "routine" by the real estate agent.

　　One day in early September, the police service station of Meiyuan New Village of Nanjing Xuanwu Public Security Bureau received an alarm from Xiao Wang, a young man, saying that he had encountered a dispute when renting a house, and the house had not been rented, and the agency fee paid by 400 yuan would not be returned. After receiving the alarm, the policeman Wu Chao got in touch with Xiao Wang.

　　Xiao Wang told the police that he just graduated from college this year. A month ago, he saw on the Internet that this intermediary had a room with a desirable price, location and decoration. "From the photos, the room is very bright and tidy. If this location can really rent such a room at this price, it is really lucky." Xiao Wang said that he immediately contacted an intermediary who claimed to be surnamed Zhang and met to see the house.

　　According to Zhang’s instructions, Xiao Wang came to the real estate agency office located in an office building on Zhujiang Road. Zhang warmly received Xiao Wang, saying that he had confirmed that the room was still there, but he had to charge 600 yuan’s agency fee before going to the house. Xiao Wang Gang graduated, and was short of money. After some bargaining, the two sides finally made a deal with the 400 yuan agency fee. Then the intermediary gave the contact information of Xiao Wang’s landlord, and specifically told him: "The landlord is busy at work and will call again after 6 pm." After 6 o’clock in the evening, Xiao Wang telephoned the landlord to make an appointment to meet downstairs in the rented house the next day.

　　However, when Xiao Wang arrived at the appointed place the next day, the landlord didn’t show up. "I called the landlord, but the landlord said that he had an urgent business trip, and it would take half a month to return to Nanjing. I was anxious to rent a house, so I called the intermediary again. The intermediary said that he would help me find a more suitable house and promised until I took a fancy to it, but I didn’t take the initiative to contact me after that." Xiao Wang told the police that he had been to the intermediary office several times in the past month, but it was strange that the door was often closed and no one could be found there.

　　After understanding the situation, the police took Xiao Wang to the office of the intermediary involved, which happened to be open that day. Xiao Wang said that he had found other suitable houses and asked the intermediary to return the agency fee. Under the mediation of the police, the intermediary finally refunded the intermediary fee to Xiao Wang 400 yuan.

　　"In fact, we have recently received a lot of similar rental disputes." The police told reporters that many people had similar experiences with Xiao Wang. In fact, they were all given "routines" by intermediaries. "In addition to the alarm that we can’t see the house, we have received other similar alarms. For example, the houses that are optimistic on the Internet are very different from the actual ones. For example, the 500 yuan/monthly rent that was discussed at the beginning immediately became 1,500 yuan/month after seeing the actual room." In these situations, basically, the renter paid the agency fee first. Moreover, the intermediary is also very cunning. In order to avoid the renter from recovering the intermediary fee, they often change their office locations.

　　Because the agency fee is not high, many people really can’t afford it, so they will give up the agency and find another house, and the agency fee is not required. Not many people really come to the police for help.