This generation of young people, dripping stock market crash, P2P, new coronary pneumonia, but did not expect to be forced into a dead corner by the Internet long-term rental apartments.
“At noon, I just paid 20,000 annual rent in eggshells, but at night I was kicked out by the landlord and sat in the 24-hour KFC with my luggage for a night, once thinking of death. “Xiaoxin, a post-95 drifting north, told his story in a group. He tried to call the eggshell apartment customer service phone number, also tried to go to Beijing eggshell apartment headquarters squatting, but all were “closed door”, was similarly affected by Xiao Xiao pulled to a It was only after the eggshell apartment rights protection group that he got a little bit of hope again.
The worst thing is that Xiaoxin has to continue to pay the “rent loan”, otherwise it will affect his personal credit.
There are quite a few young tenants like Xiao Xin and Xiao Xiao. As of this writing, the reporter’s investigation visited the rights groups all over Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other places, the number of defenders up to five thousand people, mainly landlords and tenants, not including the employees and suppliers of egg shell apartments owed wages, and the reporter’s knowledge and infiltration of the rights groups, is only the tip of the iceberg of egg shells thunderstorm affected by economic and rights loss of people.
Ironically, as the news of the possible takeover of Eggshells by My Love Home came out, the share price of Eggshells, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, skyrocketed by 75% and 90% in two days, from $1.37 to $4.50. On one side, the capital market was wildly enthusiastic.
On the one hand, the capital market rejoiced, and on the other, thousands of users who had no way to protect their rights. The problems that lasted for more than half a month, such as eggshell apartment app paralysis, housekeeper disconnected, tenant deposit can not be refunded, landlord rent can not be collected, not only there is no sign of any solution, eggshell apartment did not release any statement to solve the problem, only on November 16 through the official blog of Sina: eggshell apartment is not bankrupt, nor run away, just into the crisis of tight capital chain, and will not collapse.
The reporter not only watched the exchange of questions in the group, but also interviewed some of the group members individually. The tenant in the group accounts for a high percentage of the members, mainly the young hitters after 90, but also a small number of landlords and eggshell housekeepers, and their demands and losses are also different.
Eggshells business has been suspended: no after-sales service, no new business
The reason why there is a situation where the tenant pays the annual rent, but the landlord forcibly evicts the tenant for not receiving the money is because the model of Eggshells Apartments is to collect the preferential annual rent from the tenant and then call the landlord on a monthly basis, thus generating financial leverage.
“I just renewed my lease in September, and in October there started to be disconnections, and then the cleaning lady stopped coming to clean, and then the landlord came to evict people. “
Zhang said he only learned then that the landlord hadn’t received rent for more than a month. It was just the beginning of November when the incident happened, and the eggshells even sent a housekeeper to deal with it. The housekeeper came out and said that eggshells had financial problems, and the tenant could choose to surrender the lease, as long as he could apply for the cancellation process on the eggshells app, he could get the full amount of rent back. Zhang didn’t want to be bothered by this anymore, so he accepted the offer and moved out of the original place after the application process.
It’s also true that the app later showed that the refund was successful, but the money was not credited to the associated bank card until recently. “Until recently, when the eggshells were exposed to the risk of bankruptcy, Xiao Zhang realized the seriousness of the problem, and quickly contacted the then housekeeper. But the housekeeper can no longer be reached, and he made all the calls he could on the eggshell, but all of them were stone-faced and unanswered.
The reporter tried to contact the customer service on the eggshell app, the customer service has been a robot reply, when playing the complaint advice phone, the phone was immediately hung up. Finally, the reporter tried to look for the rental phone number of nearby properties on the app, and found that the housekeeper’s viewing phone number of any property was unified into the same landline number from Beijing.
When the phone finally connected, the reporter said he wanted to rent one of the properties shown above, but was hung up on by the other side just after saying a word. After dialing again, the reporter repeatedly expressed the need to rent, the other party repeatedly told the reporter that if there is a dispute to find the corresponding complaint channel, when the other party finally concluded that the reporter is not a complaint, then promised to arrange a housekeeper responsible for viewing, and told the follow-up there will be a personal contact. But in the next three days, the reporter did not receive any relevant phone calls.
For listed companies, each of the capital chain breakage, business stagnation and crisis of confidence is fatal. In the past two years, the bankruptcy of ofo deposit floating different, the amount of direct losses of the user is mostly million to start, and no housing to live in the follow-up problems are also endless.
It’s not just a matter of time, it’s a matter of time. I can only dry wait for a turnaround, although I hate eggshells, but pray that they do not go bankrupt. “Little Zhang to reporters helplessly.
The victim of infighting and fighting between
Heart-wrenching, eggshell thunderstorms, both tenants and landlords are unjustly victimized, but have become each other’s enemies.
“Every day, woke up from a nightmare, afraid of waking up to homelessness. “It is reported that Mr. Chen’s situation is much more difficult, he is the annual payment users, there are seven months to expire, plus the deposit a total of more than 20,000 to the eggshell. But the landlord has issued an eviction order since the beginning of the month for not receiving the rent, restricting him to move out within three days. He said that now the form of the eggshell apartment is unclear, and rashly surrendering the lease will only put himself in a more embarrassing situation.
“The landlord actually has no right to evict people, because the landlord signed not a lease contract with the eggshells, but a power of attorney contract. Why should the tenant who has paid the rent move out when the eggshells are in breach of the lease? “
The reason given by the landlord was that the contract signed with the eggshells clearly stated that if the eggshells failed to pay the rent to the landlord for 15 days, the landlord could unilaterally terminate the contract and take back the house.
The reporter consulted with Beijing State Consulting Law Firm on relevant legal issues, and Wang Yahui argued that: the landlord entrusted eggshells to rent the house, eggshells are the agent of the landlord, and the tenant handing over the rent to eggshells is the same as handing over the landlord. In addition, the entrustment contract between the landlord and eggshell was automatically terminated, which would not affect the lease contract between the tenant and the eggshell. Therefore, if the eggshell does not transfer the rent to the landlord, the eggshell violates the contract of entrustment, which has nothing to do with the tenant, and the landlord should go to the eggshell to pursue responsibility, not to evict.
This is what the law says, but the reality is that most tenants are still being evicted by their landlords. Mr. Chen called the police several times, and when the police arrived, they said that it was an economic dispute and that the two parties should resolve it themselves. However, the police also acknowledged Mr. Chen’s right to live in the apartment, saying that he had the right to continue living there until the matter was resolved.
Now can live day by day, electronic lock for fear of being changed the code, I have removed; water and electricity I also found their own account number to pay the water and electricity bureau; but the landlord every morning at 6 a.m. to knock gongs at the door, this really can not stand. “Mr. Chen said he really does not want to be affected by this bad thing, he has been negotiating with the landlord, the loss of half of both.
The landlord’s representative Ms. Li also resorted to the reporter’s own difficulties. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest addition to your own website. “
Ms. Li’s two-bedroom apartment in Hangzhou was previously rented out to an eggshell apartment, and the eggshell had not paid her rent for over a month, and in the face of a loss of nearly 5,000 yuan a month, Ms. Li said she could not afford it for too long. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to afford it, but I’m sure I’ll be able to afford it for a long time. Now that our daughter has been born, we need money for everything. I don’t want to get rid of the child in it on a cold day, but if I keep spending more I’ll lose more than 10,000 yuan, I really can’t help it. “
Ms. Li has offered to pay half of the damages to the tenant, but the tenant rejected the offer because she thought she should continue to live there as long as she paid the rent. In addition, tenants are concerned that once the lease is terminated, it will be more difficult for them to enforce their rights, and they will not move out until everything is finalized.
Banks don’t believe in tears, and they still have to repay the “rent loan” if they surrender the lease.
“I had planned to lose the rent, not even the security deposit, and just move out, and I was reminded that I still had a rent credit on my monthly payment, and I was instantly stupid. “
Ms. Wang refers to the rent loan as a service provided by Micro Focus Bank to Eggshell Apartments. When tenants are unable to pay the full amount of rent, they can apply for a rent loan from Eggshells Apartments and repay the loan in monthly installments. It is reported that Ms. Wang did not know that the operating procedure of this rental loan was that the apartment would first borrow a full year’s rent from Micro Focus Bank in her name, and then let Ms. Wang repay the rent in installments.
Therefore, although Ms. Wang has applied for surrendering the lease, it is still her unilateral breach of contract, and the money has been borrowed from Micro Focus Bank, which she has to repay herself.
I heard that if I can’t repay the rent loan, it will be reported to the credit report, but the premise is that there is a problem with the eggshell, the landlord evicted people can’t live, so I was forced to move out. “
For such a situation, Micro Focus Bank’s customer service also began to lose touch, and the rental loan business has been offline. Only one announcement was given, which means that tenants should not move out if they can still live there, and if they have already moved out, their credit will not be affected until 3.31 next year, but not necessarily after that.
Industry insiders have long predicted the eggshell crisis
“Eggshell apartments are typically rented at high prices and rented out at low prices. This model will have a constant flow of funds if the market is good, but it requires a high vacancy rate, and once there are multiple vacant units, the losses will expand, plus the impact of this year’s epidemic, the thunderstorm of eggshell apartments is also expected. “
A well-known real estate company’s intermediary Xiao Liu said to reporters. According to the disclosure, the eggshell apartment from 2017 to 2019, respectively, a net loss of 270 million yuan, 1.37 billion yuan, 3.43 billion yuan, losses into a year-on-year increasing trend, and in the first half of this year by the impact of the epidemic, the loss will be even more serious. Xiao Liu said he heard that the eggshells are negotiating with many real estate companies, but no one wants to take this “hot potato”.
“Eggshell apartments are still losing money so far, and have not got a more successful profit model, many companies even if they take over, it is difficult to turn a loss into a profit, now the business is so difficult to do, everyone is very cautious. “
As of this writing, tens of thousands of tenants, landlords and housekeepers who have not received their wages are still on the long road to defend their rights. Some people are seeking legal recourse and filing appeals; some are posting on Douban and Weibo to seek attention; some are organizing shifts to squat in Eggshells …….
The rights group is cooling down, as people are starting to become numb to some of the new members’ experiences. The unspoken message is that without official notification, the tenant’s first priority is to fight with the landlord to stay another day as long as possible; the landlord is also “plotting”. “How to Get Rid of Old Tenants Without Breaking the Law.
The following comments were compiled by CDT from the web.
L**: The eggshell apartment super voice was blocked, I do not know what it is covering up, this time the media or individuals who can speak out deserve respect.
A**: This young people are all leeks, anyway, one crop after another, as long as the life is still alive, not afraid of no cut!
B**: The most ironic thing is that they are still in the official microblogging pretending that the years are still peaceful, and kicking the ball around, partly instigating the landlord to sack the tenant’s detrimental tactics, eggshell apartment super voice is gone, really still young people as small leeks.
Fog**: Eggshells apartment super voice is gone, is the meaning of the ban on communication @ People’s Daily
Gas**: People’s Day is just a second-rate newspaper that people can live with!
E**: People’s Daily are both Featured Commentary Featured People? Will they still care about us?
Ah **: pit how many people …… rental housing crowd would not have been particularly well-off, are playing workers. The Internet some seemingly “very reliable” company, but the failure of which, we must be vigilant, not too blindly follow the superstitious Internet products!
Since the industry has been formed, it must be effectively regulated by the government, such as paying a deposit to the government, purchasing commercial insurance regulated by the government, signing all contracts according to the template provided by the authorities, and submitting monthly bank runs. If the legally registered public companies are unreliable, and the authorities in the capital city cannot supervise them, then what can be done for the workers?
This**: @People’s Daily pay attention to people’s livelihood, our great motherland!
The most **: capitalists have long been squeezed dry, and then let the state take the blame, the state an investigation, that is normal risk, clean!
But**: It must be fake… There is no way this could happen in China!
The first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you are not going to be able to get a good deal of money. It’s shameless to take the hard-earned money earned by the underprivileged by staying up all night and working overtime to test the waters, isn’t it a bit too much? We’re not moving out until we get our refund anyway!
H**: I’m an eggshell employee and I’ve been owed wages for a month and a half!
I **:@ CCTV News @ Zheng Shuang The people who live in egg shells are all fresh graduates, is this how the government treats us young people who have just entered the society?
Small **: It was originally a bandit dish is used to harvest really think of themselves as successors. After taking the iron fist of socialism to know the cruelty of society!
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