Renting a house in Bangalore? – Real Life experience

Most of us, live away from our home due to various reasons like job, studies, etc,. Often we end up looking for houses on rent basis. Rentals have become a big business especially in big cities like Chennai and Bangalore. There are lots of frauds as well. I personally experienced one such bad moment in Bangalore. This will be a lesson for everyone on how to approach.

When you find a house for rent, before fixing it, it is required to inquire in the area about the house and its owner. Its important to know his credibility in returning back the advance amount. This should the first thing we fail to do. People tend to go by the broker’s words and fix the house. Same mistake as we did. Only after paying the full advance and settling in the house we came to know that the owner does not return back the money.

Next important matter to be noticed is the details in the agreement paper. Every minor detail is to be taken care of. If that is not proper, do not hesitate to inform them to re work. If they are not ready, then cancel the deal and walk off. One such example is the painting charge. It has to be mentioned how much amount will be deducted as painting charge. Normally, this has to be one month rent. This is our second mistake. It was mentioned as “Painting charges will be deducted” in our agreement and we ended up paying huge amount which is mentioned later in the blog.

Every little detail about the house and its furniture/stuff has to be captured. If the light is not working, door hinge broken, bell non-functioning has to be captured. Else it will be charged in your advance amount as if you broke that. Mistake number three.

It is important to renew your agreement after the current one expires. Else you cannot claim the amount. No guarantee. We never renewed it and we were lucky enough to get at least what we got.

DO NOT VACATE THE HOUSE if the owner is not present at the time of vacating. Insist him to be there to get the keys after proper checking of the house. We couldn’t get that fraud and finally left the house after locking it. He collected the keys after 2 weeks. 

Total advance amount paid was 75000. 

Last month rent was deducted from advance (10000).

Another month rent was deducted for the reason that some of our things were present 10000 (Those were just garbage. That’s why it is required to have him during vacating).

Painting charge 33000 (Mistake 2 mentioned above). I never heard this in my life.

Then breakage charges 1000 (alarm and lock replace which was already damaged when we rented).

Motor repair charge 1000 (There was no problem in the motor which he himself confirmed some months back. Just that the bore well dried up.)

Finally he gave back 20000, which we felt enough if that comes back properly (As the cheque he gave was post dated and it was in such a bad condition)

There are good owners as well. If you take care of point 1, then others will be good. The next house we rented was proper and there was nothing deducted from our advance amount (as we said no need of painting, no painting charges)

Be careful in renting house or you may regret later. It is your hard earned money after all!!