Imagine paying 20 euro a month to be able to see the people information? Why is the person renting the house paying for this service and not the person that has a house to rent they are the one’s advertising it after all?

by getajobtuga

31 comments

  2. because there is a lot of demand so as a renter you will pay to get early access to the good offers.

  3. Appartments are so sought after that these predators can get away with ripping people off from every angle.

  4. Because people will do whatever it takes to find a place to live.

  5. Because there is more willingness to pay on the demand side than on the supply side of the platform.

  6. Because they can, because we suffer from a housing crisis, because fuck you, thats why.
    Depending on where you are searching a landlord might gets hundreds of applications in a short period of time. They simply dont care if they could get 50% more from people who dont want to get the subscription. Why pay when others are desperate enough to do that already.

  7. Here is the neat part: The person that has a house to rent pays, too. Welcome to the housing crisis.

  8. because the website wants to make some money. would you rather sell 1000 subscriptions to some potential landlors or 100000 to the people that look for houses?

    keep in mind that we’re in the middle of a housing crisis and people are desperate for getting an apartment at all. lots of people could believe that not a lot of people have this subscription so they have a good chance to get that apartment if they pay for that

  11. They must pay for the advertising, you must pay to fully access the advertising. Good business model.

  12. If ImmoScout asks the landlords for money, the landlords might not advertize their appartment on ImmoScout, but somewhere else.

    So, ImmoScout does not ask the landlord for money, and became the biggest platform for rental appartments. Other platforms are waaaay smaller.

    Someone who wants to rent definitely will use ImmoScout, so they can rip them off.

  13. This shit is what I’ve come to dub “the common radicalizing experiences of everyday life”.

    It just makes me angry. And then always hearing the same statements when you get upset about it.

    “Yes, that’s just how the market reacts when demand is high”. How far people have been gaslighted by capitalism. It has simply become normalized that in tough situations (e.g. the housing market) it is okay to rip people off.

  14. “Rent-seeking is the act of growing one’s existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.”

  16. Like how the supermarket pays me to eat their bananas?

  17. In my country this kind of plattforms are scams. (The listed accomodations are not real/stolen from real ones/ki made.)

  18. I am one of these blood sucking vermin who is renting out an apartment (for which I am still paying dearly to the bank every month no matter if I get paid rent or not). So I like to have a new renter as quickly as possible, while minimising the risk said renter might pose.

    If you use the paid version of this service you have several advantages over the free version.

    – My ad will be shown to non-paying members only after a week, so for this time you are ahead of the others.
    – After this week your application will be at the top of my list of applications. Frankly, you can forget about this.
    – Most important you can upload documents which are relevant to me in advance.

    All applicants who did this got an invitation from me because this, and the fact, that they were willing to pay for the service made them much more trustworthy than their “free loading” competitors. Which, by the way, sent me Yoda-like one-liners.

    But now for the kicker. To be able to have access to the applicant’s docs, I also have to use the paid version, which costs me four times as much per month.

  19. it’s because there are more people who want to rent an apartment than people who rent apartments

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  24. does it benefit to someone? I was subscribed once but honestly the chance are not improved.

  25. A trick is to buy Schufa certificate from immoscout and you get 1 month free MieterPlus. It’s 30€ and it’s only for one month

  26. I wouldn’t be living in my apartment right now if I hadn’t payed that. Desperate times need desperate measures

  27. When I was renting out an apartment,  I was basically only reviewing profile of paid accounts. Just because otherwise it wasn’t physically possible to go through 200+ applications and paid account usually has all needed information in one place.

  29. As landlord renting out via Immoscout24 – they let one pay for everything extra as well.

    Why? Because they can.

  30. Because the person who owns a house gets richer even if there isn’t a tenant in the house/flat.

    Because all (good) jobs are in cities there will never be enough adequate supply of living space if all other land users (commercial, speculation, parking, parks, industry, highways) fight for the limited (good) city land, too.

    And their coffers are so big that, even if there would be new living space, no one with a normal salary could afford the rent, because a private developer wants to turn a profit in 10 years.

  31. Yes, it’s disgusting. Was paying for it though when was looking for an apartment. As do many people. Because they are desperate.

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