QUOTE(westlife @ Feb 6 2024, 02:03 PM)
yes, it is 100% confirmed my agent is just copying paste the standard contract t&c.
I even risked myself by transferring all the deposits to her personal account including 2 months of rentals + 1 month of advance payment (act as booking fee as well) plus 0.5 month of utilities deposit and rm300 stamping/legal fee + her agent fee of 0.5 month rental. (is it standard for tenant to pay agent fee as well?)
she was making excuses that her company account does not want to have so many transactions in and out so just pay to her will do. i actually knew that this is not the standard practice which i must bank in to the property agency account instead. but i did it still luckily no bad thing happened and i had been staying for close to 2 months now.
that time when the tenancy agreement was drafted, she even made mistake on my IC no. luckily i did the check on the agreement, she said it was her company admin who drafted it but i highly doubted it.
i think she just wanted to pay p
Regarding your question on the standard practice of tenant paying agent fee, it depends as there is no clear rules to it.
In Klang Valley, only the landlord pays the fee.
In JB, I know many REN agency collude with other REN agency to charge both tenant and landlord. The practice is Agency A represent the landlord give the listing to Agency B to find tenant. Agency B will put the ads on the several property sites. The tenant contact Agency B to rent the listing came from Agency A. So, automatically, the tenant need to pay Agency B for getting a place for him to rent while Agency A get the fee from the owner for sharing the listing with another agency. Same thing happens where Agency B share its listing with Agency A. It's the trick to double charge while having the same workload.
They call themselves as owner's agent and tenant's agent and justify that it's needed to protect each side's interest. Padahal, the Tenancy Agreement is a copy&paste and the agents don't really understand. Sometimes, they say things that contradict the contract. I remembered once I inform the my agent (representing the tenant) that I want to change the terms. She just forward it to the owner's agent and ask me to nego directly. Useless agent as I had to protect my own rights while paying her agent fee for publishing an ad on a property website.
This post has been edited by Gabriel03: Feb 6 2024, 04:25 PM 
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