I’ve asked several tenants what they think of the eggshell workers, and they’ve told me they want the eggshell people dead.
On December 18, micro loans the bank issued eggshell tenant counter notice, bear “rents to borrow ” tenants can settle the loan, “to climb out of a deep pit ”. To onlookers, the eggshell story has come to an end, but the annual and semi-annual payments of tenants, still not waiting for a solution, the landlord and tenants of the war has not stopped.
I have joined nine WeChat rights groups successively, including landlords and tenants. Because of fear of being reported, group invariably does not write “eggshell ” 2 words, some with harmonics, some abbreviations. Looking at the chat messages on both sides at the same time creates an absurd sense of division:
Tenants in the group, everyone in the group behind the nickname marked with their situation: “not hire – its terminated ” “rents to borrow – rescission , ” “without waiting for the lift loans ” “no credit protection ”; The chat interface keeps popping up videos of landlords violently evicting people, dismantling homes and changing locks, cutting off water and electricity. They want “evil landlord ” are also having a hard time: none of the tap all day long and electric equipment, for 1 month up to thousands of yuan for water, gas, water and electricity, these costs are borne by the landlord; Others broke up and sold air conditioners and furniture to try to recover some of their losses.
Landlords are not to be outdone, they called tenants “rent bully ”. In the early stage of the dispute, the property will stop the water and electricity in the case of arrears. In the later stage, the property will no longer participate in the dispute. The main means of the landlord has become to change the lock and decorate. The group is packed with soft-fitting shopkeepers and locksmiths. Electronic locks seem more popular than traditional locks, and they come with remote control software for a variety of prices and uses.
After the explosion, Eggshell was unable to keep up with the landlord’s rent, which tenants had already paid for the following year. In a crisis, eggshell officials are encouraging landlords to break their contracts with companies while telling tenants they have the right to live in a house they have already paid for.
This recruit netizen called “use double agent ”, directly led to a gradual upgrade of war between tenants and landlords.
A negative tenants told me: “without what good talk, everyone’s experiences are similar. “- is the landlord to let tenants move out, tenant does not agree, the landlord began to catch people by various means. People who can solve problems peacefully have negotiated privately before the cold winter arrives and are not still in the group.
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Go window “home ”
Zhou Zhou was one of the first people to know about eggshell detonation, but even if the time line was superior, it was of no use to him.
As early as the end of October, he received a phone call from Eggshell’s Beijing headquarters, who gave him two plans: first, to cancel the contract and move out and rent the house under Eggshell’s name again; The second is to cancel the contract directly, deduct the preferential amount enjoyed before, and pay all liquidated damages.
Zhou was a bit hesitant: either way, the current contract would have to be terminated first, and it would take four working days for the refunded rent to be returned to the Eggshell App, and two weeks for cash to be transferred to the bank card. After failing to get paid for nearly a month, zhou zhou, an Internet engineer, plans to move out immediately — rather than the three other roommates who ended their contracts without thinking.
Tenants of roughly two kinds of circumstances: one kind is to use “rents to borrow ” young people, most of them just work, no deposit, under the promoting of the sales staff has chosen the micro rent the bank loans; The other is to pay in full for a year or six months, a choice often made by those able to scrape together a sum of money because of the generous discounts offered at the time of signing. Zhou Zhou belongs to the latter group. To avoid intermediary fees, he signed a one-year rental contract with The Eggshell Apartment on June 30 this year, paying a lump sum of 25,920 yuan for the one-year rent.
But it soon became strange: roommates didn’t get a refund after the termination of the rent, but the APP account of more than 20000 “eggshell currency (1 eggshell c = 1 yuan, under normal circumstances can be withdrawal) ”, point, system displays not withdrawal. People have moved away and doesn’t even have a resting place, in order to take hold in the APP “eggshell money ”, my roommate had to pay 10000 yuan, to name another house rented eggshell.
Rents were “had found ” lock-in “, they should not be moved. “said Zhou Zhou, ” I don’t know the specific circumstances, there is no contact, may also want to be the landlord out now. ”
Eggshell apartments has launched a series of initial offers, including monthly cash rebates for tenants. After the shell exploded, Zhou zhou did not receive any cash back for three consecutive months.
After the roommates all moved out, the 4-room room was suddenly empty, leaving only Zhou Zhou and the 2 people who lived with him. Zhou Zhou always “eggshell housekeeper ” positive contact, trying to safeguard their own rights and interests, but didn’t get the results he wanted.
On Nov. 5, he came home from work to find that the password couldn’t be opened — the housekeeper had changed it remotely.
“he (housekeeper) first feign death, is also pick up my phone, but without saying a word, and then blocked me. “in the face of such rough handling, Zhou Zhou chose to call the police, to his disappointment, the police let him contact shell to solve.
“how do I contact shell? He’s blocking me. “fortunately Zhou Zhou live on the first floor, go out in the morning didn’t close the window. That night, he “walk ” window back home.
A week later, the landlord came up with a solution, saying that he still had a house and Zhou Zhou could move there for the time being. When the eggshell came up with a new solution, we could talk about the follow-up matters. Zhou zhou was grateful and thought the landlord was too kind. But he was moved too early — the landlord and his wife came to talk later, and said nothing about their previous offer, except that they had terminated the contract with Eggshell and that if Zhou still wanted to live here, he would re-sign with them; otherwise, he would move out within a week.
“they (the landlord) to quote the price is higher than that of the shell of more than 300, I have to pay the rent until June of next year, could not give her rent. ”
Is it acceptable if the landlord proposes to split the loss 50/50? Zhou Zhou answer is “certainly ”. At that time, the victim tenants on WeChat established “victim ” base, Zhou Zhou know, most of the private solution, is the landlord and tenant assume their respective half of the loss.
On Nov. 20, zhou went to the police station for the first time after work after failing to seek help everywhere. Before that, he had called 110 and 12345 for many times. The hotline told him that he could call the police, 110 told him that he should go to the neighborhood committee, where the landlord did not show up. Zhou rushed to the police station just to get home — the landlord had locked all the doors and Windows.
Can not go into the house, also can not contact the landlord, Zhou Zhou had to call the property and neighborhood committee, the reply is to let him wait for the landlord’s information.
The landlord answered the call made by the police station. She asked Zhou Zhou to wait for 15 minutes, then 45 minutes, and then there was no specific time. Zhou stayed at the police station until after 1 a.m., and he felt that every policeman who didn’t speak for himself resembled a small landlord in the metropolis.
After coming out from the police station, Zhou Zhou, who had nowhere to go, sat until 5 o ‘clock in the 24-hour Family-owned convenience store. When the day broke, he picked up his backpack and continued to go back to work. Into the winter of Shanghai is very cold, high-rise clearance of the sky, pale as zhou Zhou chaotic brain. Indus leaves swirl to fall to the ground, by the cleaners to clean into the garbage truck.
While still trying to find a way to get help, he had to find a new place to live, the inconvenience of sleeping in a friend’s house, and the work still needed to be done in quality and quantity. Everything was piling up for Zhou Zhou, and he felt helpless and even desperate.
Worst of all, Zhou zhou’s request to his landlord for a temporary password to take out his personal belongings was ruthlessly rejected. He can only every day after work back “home ” shake, couldn’t say for sure what you’re looking for, maybe it’s just “home ” inertia, drove him in that direction.
On December 2, Zhou Zhou called the police again — he found that the door which had been locked for several days suddenly opened, and the room was not the landlord waiting to renegotiate with him, but the decoration team. The living room compartment was smashed, Zhou zhou’s door was opened, and his personal belongings were scattered on the floor. Whether or not there was anything valuable in it, Zhou felt his property and privacy had been seriously violated.
Zhou Zhou who called the police was disappointed again. The police told him that the property was owned by the landlord, who had the right to do anything in his house, whether it was to cut off water and electricity or to renovate it.
Because of the decoration, Zhou Zhou was able to enter the house. He spent three nights in a room without water, electricity or coal. On December 5, he rented a new house, packed up and moved out.
In dark insist on living in the “his room ” period, he continues to receive the landlord WeChat news, is all some threats, such as when he was at work during the day will be his luggage as garbage, he lives in the house is decorated can get pneumoconiosis, electric shock, formaldehyde poisoning, and so on.
Does Zhou Zhou don’t know who to turn to, he sent one post on zhihu, call the landlord “vested interests that the perpetrators ”, has more than 300 comments, under a lot of people scold him cleaning egg white; He called 12345, said of desperation, “how can you help me? Do I have to jump and burn the house down? ”
Because of this sentence, the citizen hotline hung up the phone and called the police. This time, the police acted very quickly. Zhou zhou entered the police station for the third time in panic, but he didn’t think his words would cause such strong consequences. Zhou Zhou, in fact, neither wanted to commit suicide, also didn’t want to set fire to, he has moved into a new home, just for what had happened to her is still uneven, think for themselves “the redress. “after the record, he didn’t sign, he thought the police record does not accord with his own narrative.
On December 18, Zhou Zhou told me that the contract between Eggshell and himself had ended. It may be one month after the landlord offered to terminate the contract, and the system will force the termination of the contract with the tenant, because he has never actively operated anything.
“rescission , ”, there have been more than 10000 yuan in his account cannot withdraw “eggshell money ”, Zhou Zhou can only hope that in the shell can come back to life, but who also don’t compensate for his loss.
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Doomsday “boarding ”
“I don’t understand, why in November eggshell tenant in the rental housing is still normal face? Why is Weizhong still offering rent loans to tenants when the eggshell has collapsed? ”
To live in the apartment with other early, Mark is 11 month to sign a contract with shell, and signed a half-year “rents to borrow ”.
In November, the explosion of eggshells has spread all over the Internet. However, Mark, who has just returned to China, knows nothing about it. In the agency’s extravagant description, eggshell is a listed company, a big brand. Small fresh style decoration, 24-hour butler and other words caught Mark’s heart — no one had told him that the eggshell was at its end and everyone was crying.
On the second Saturday after moving into the new house, Mark met his landlord’s aunt who came to clear the house. Landlord family is Mark “his , ” their house, let him make money, or leave. Mark, who had never seen such a battle before, immediately chose to call the police. However, by this time, the police had already seen many conflicts between eggshell tenants and landlords, and they just asked them to coordinate by themselves on the phone.
“they (the landlord) is to make money, I gave them $500 just willing to listen to me. “Mark lived abroad for years, been to many countries, in his impression, the landlord is a person who he had seen the most difficult to communicate, combined with ” Shanghai old aunt “in his heart is a pejorative term.
He hadn’t missed the weizhong announcement — the one without the official seal that encouraged tenants to break their contracts with eggshells, promising not to pay off loans before the end of 2023 without affecting credit checks. But what will happen after 2023, no one knows, and the renter community is watching.
Mark is afraid that his credit will be affected, and he is even more afraid that he will lose the legal protection after he cancels the contract. So he doesn’t know what to do. He wants to wait until the loan is settled at the end of the month before he signs another contract with the landlord. This 500 yuan is to give deposit, representing oneself sincerity.
Mark likes the environment and location of the house. He has just started his new job and is reluctant to move frequently. He also hopes to minimize the impact of the eggshell incident on himself.
After 1 week in the morning, however, the landlord couple claimed “someone checking ”, again arrives.
It is more appropriate to smash the door than to come to it. Mark opened the door almost as soon as he was bleary-eyed, he was scolded by both of them. As they swore, they removed the electronic door lock provided by the eggshell — in a cautious manner that was far from befitting the tirade. For the couple, electronic locks are a valuable commodity that can be kept for the next tenant and not broken, even if it’s only worth a hundred or two dollars. Mark think again spirit again funny, again revealed to “Shanghai shrewd and calculating ”.
Mark calls the police a second time after the door is unlocked. He and his landlord and his wife were taken to the police station, possibly because they had called the police more often. Mark’s anxiety when he first went to the police station was gradually relieved by the screams of his landlord’s aunt. He could understand some of them, while others were meaningless dirty words.
The police advised them to wait until the street office was back at work before they reconciled.
While waiting alone in the mediation room, an elderly policeman approached Mark and accused him of squatting on other people’s houses. Mark: I’m sorry, but I have to go to the eggshell company to talk about it.
“if I can find the shell, also the police do? ”
The aunt of street mediation gave Mark a little warmth. The result of mediation was that the landlord put back the door lock, and Mark had to pay 1500 yuan to the landlord, which was equal to half of the loss.
On the evening of December 17, the official announcement of Weizhong had not yet been made, but word had spread among various renters that the rental loan could be terminated. Mark also safely remove loans, although still occasionally get landlord aunt harassment, but not when “LaoLai ”, his good mood a lot.
“she is want money, I pay her more than 10000 pieces of the odds and ends. What utilities, management fees and property fees, she thought of all kinds of reasons for me to pay, I can accept all of them, now let me stay until the end of the month. Although the rent is only 3000 yuan a month, I still can’t live safely after spending so much money. I really don’t want to rent a house anymore. ”
Mark: I’ve never been cheated by a foreigner in my years abroad. I’ve been cheated by two Chinese for thousands of yuan. He thinks the sale of eggshells in November is a scam to rent a house and sign a loan, but he doesn’t have the energy to protect his rights.
“all say me is to spend money to buy, but I don’t know what you got? ”
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Overall weak
Before going deep into the whole incident, I once thought that tenants were absolutely vulnerable groups in the whole eggshell incident. However, in the landlord group, I saw the difficulties belonging to the landlord group.
“I have been considering for them, and hope to warm them, for the moment, I know that they are victims, so this time even more unity, crossing each other. “wan son felt by several tenants cornered, the but talk about these, is still rational and gentleness.
Wan ‘er, a Shanghai native, used to work at an investment management company, but lost her job in February because of the outbreak and has yet to find a suitable job.
The house she rented out was bought with a loan in 2017, with a monthly mortgage of nearly 10,000 yuan. Eggshell had recently started doing “principal ”, wan son to worry, just signed a contract with shell. Haven’t she remember clearly, the eggshell into “high ended lower rent ” vicious cycle of, give her the rent is not higher than the market price, even lower. “room of the house to keep ” was a good investment, but in the dual combination of unemployment and shell explodes the ray, the investment was crushed, wan son of straw.
Waner didn’t immediately come to the house after the shell exploded. Instead, she tried to communicate with a few tenants in the WeChat group. In her opinion, the tenant is a vulnerable group in the city, and as the landlord, she does not want to aggravate the conflict. She is about 10 years older than the tenants in her house and feels like a younger brother or sister. When she just graduated from college, she also rented a house. She especially understands that it is not easy for young people to drift away from home.
However, waner’s understanding did not get equal gratitude. She proposed several times in WeChat group, but no one answered. Even when she called WeChat for negotiation the next day, none of the six tenants was at home.
“I received eggshell rent from August, there is one and half months rent-free period, this is my own thing, has nothing to do with them (tenant). But none of them are willing to pay the rent, and I have a mortgage to pay. It’s too much for me. wan son hope, like most people who successfully negotiate and tenant “50-50 split ” through the crisis, but the other no longer pay the rent.
In November, Wan ‘er, who still had not received her rent, had to repay it by borrowing money online. Although she was still trying to be gentle with her tenants, she fell into a serious anxiety. She asked herself if it was worth it during the emotional nights when she spent most of her time on eggshell-related news and never missed a word from her landlord group. She knows a lot of people through violence “win ” back to the house of his own, there are more and more people with tenants in the battleground.
“say not good, I regret it. “exhausted wan son finally said to me. She consulted a lawyer, who said that according to her contract with eggshell, after the termination of the contract, the right to normal repossession of the house. But the tenants did not understand her, and they were not willing to share the loss, and Wan ‘er could not bear it alone. She plans to sell her old home to pay off the loan, and if eggshell doesn’t have a proper policy by February, she will once again be part of the rental army.
On December 18, Webank formally issued the relevant agreement to settle the rental loan, and wan ‘er’s two rental tenants could move out at the end of the year. The remaining four “year pay ” tenants, there is still no good solution, but for wan son, at least she had a house to rent.
“I have been thinking about suing the eggshells, but I have never thought about what to do for tenants. Although I had 10,000 ways to get them to move out, I didn’t. It’s just that they never thought a bit about me, and I was disappointed. ”
During my time with the rights group, I asked several tenants what they thought of the eggshell workers, and they told me they wanted the eggshell people dead.
Tenants are unquestionable victims, and hatred of eggshells is justified. However, if the eggshell is a capital behemoth, take away the head of the rentier, and the bottom is also made up of specific people working in it.
Song Yu note is in the landlord group “dkgy note address will handle ”. I didn’t quite understand the identity at first, because he didn’t seem to be a landlord or a tenant, but someone who could solve everyone’s problems — as I later learned, he was eggshell’s former employee.
In fact, what he can do is very limited, just through the background to help people in need to check the tenant or landlord information.
“is through the shell because the landlord and the tenant to sign the contract, most of the time, they don’t even know who is each other. The landlord does not know whether the tenant is actually paying the rent or the annual payment, and the tenant does not know whether the landlord has actually terminated the contract. The landlord thinks that the tenant has already got the refund, and the tenant thinks that the landlord will not receive the rent for months… There are a lot of problems. They didn’t trust each other, but fortunately, they were willing to trust me. “Song Yu busy, back to my message is often after 1 a.m.
For a month after the shell exploded, he rarely fell asleep before 4 o ‘clock. He’s constantly adding friends and checking information for each other, and he’ll try to get all his friend requests approved that day. Friends whose problems have been resolved, or who have no way to help, will be deleted in time. The reason to add and delete at the same time, because his phone has been so the delay.
“you asked me why I do this? You don’t believe me when I say it’s for your own good. “Song Yu very shy, and opened the chatterboxes under my impending nuptials.
He is 28 years old, but he has experienced several ups and downs. He made his first fortune in starting a business in college, and his savings reached six figures in his junior year. After graduation, he experienced financial fraud and lost nearly 700,000 yuan.
When she joined the eggshell last November, Song was still carrying more than 100,000 yuan in debt. Because of debt, he encountered a lot of rejections on the way to find a job, and Eggshell took Song Yu, he said the dripping of water to yongquan reciprocation.
At first, eggshell employees had a government subsidy, which soon disappeared. Even though working hours have doubled, wages are almost zero. As sales colleagues have job-hopping to other companies, get rid of the “eggshell employee ” this was the identity of the reviled. Their name tags carry the names of other real estate companies, and their job is still to help struggling landlords sublet their properties and find apartments for tenants in a hurry to move.
His colleagues advised Song Yu to leave as soon as possible. He had strong business skills and became the local sales champion within six months, ranking the third in eggshell sales in China.
“, etc., the owners still have some questions for me. “Song Yu rebuffed colleagues kindness, although know the shell not line, he was willing to wait until the last possible moment.
“you did so many, have met a person scold you? “I carefully ask.
“Yes, also many . “said Song Yu, ” a lot of people hate the company, that’s for sure. I came out to help as an eggshell employee, and they called me names, and I wasn’t angry at all. What I can do is limited, and what I can’t do I have no way. I don’t know more than you do about what the end result will be. ”
What Song Yu did, we all see in the eye, at the beginning of this and that distrust and anger gradually less, we will be concerned about the rest of Song Yu. Repeat questions appeared in the group, there will be others enthusiastically “vies to answer first ”. People wish Song Yu a good future.
Before and after weizhong issued the formal rent agreement on June 18, Song yu’s eggshell working rights were closed. He told me that he was happy that users of rental loans had this solution. For one month, his biggest personal gain was that he typed much faster, and then he had to start a new work and life.
However, two days later, Song Yu frequently appeared in various groups. After the rent payment can be settled, a large number of tenants will apply for the termination of the contract at a time. However, the Eggshell APP obviously cannot handle such a huge flow, and the system often crashes. At such times, Song Yu could do nothing, but his presence in the group comforted many people.
There are also problems beyond Song’s expectation, such as some people still want to recover the lost deposit, annual users are more anxious after the rent loan is settled, and landlords show that some renters still refuse to move after the rent loan is settled… Too many problems remain unsolved, and As long as there are people who need him, Song Yu will always be there.
On the night of December 17, the tenants told each other that the rent loan could be canceled. For a short time, the tenants were all exposed with the official seal of the agreement. Someone suddenly mentioned that two tenants in Guangzhou once committed suicide by jumping off a building because of the explosion of eggshells. I hope you will not forget it. The joyous atmosphere in the group became heavy again.
The group believes that it is the two renters who have paid the price of their lives for the attention paid to eggshell explosion. The New Year is coming, everyone says it can’t be worse than 2020, but two young lives will never come back.
We lit candles, white “not forget ”.
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