{"id":4907,"date":"2018-11-29T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/we-had-to-pay-300-each-just-to-view-a-property\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:34:12","slug":"we-had-to-pay-300-each-just-to-view-a-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/we-had-to-pay-300-each-just-to-view-a-property\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We had to pay \u00a3300 each just to view a property&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A letting agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to view properties for rent, the BBC&#8217;s Victoria Derbyshire programme has found.<\/p>\n<p>The practice, by Flintons, breaches guidelines and could be unlawful. <\/p>\n<p>Magdiele, Mariely and a friend said they were told they had to pay \u00a3300 each before they could see a property.<\/p>\n<p>Flintons, in London, denied any wrongdoing and said it did not charge any fees for viewings.<\/p>\n<p>It said the payments were taking as a &#8220;holding deposit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT &#8211; and <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b05qqk5c\" class=\"story-body__link\">see more of our stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46387040\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letting agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to view properties for rent, the BBC&#8217;s Victoria Derbyshire programme has found. The practice, by Flintons, breaches guidelines and could be unlawful. Magdiele, Mariely and a friend said they were told they had to pay \u00a3300 each before they &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}