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A recent case brought to NCFP’s attention seriously questions the protection offered here when using a rental company. An expat thought that having a contract with a rental company along with a contract with the tenant should offer them all the protection they needed. How wrong could they have been? The rent was supposed to go straight into their bank account and the rental company were supposed to be looking after the property.
The result of this attempt to raise cash by renting their property was a financial disaster. Not only did the tenant quickly default on the rent but they also left a huge unpaid utility bill and took some of the contents from the property. The expats then discovered that the rental company, police and even a lawyer could do nothing to get their money or the stolen contents back. Worse that that, the lawyer’s fee would have to be paid even though they could do nothing to help them.
The moral of the story? I’ll let you make you own one up.
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Tenants beware too. Tenants renting from a letting agent have no right to know who the ‘owner’ of the property is.
Some letting agents just pocket your rent and don’t inform the absentee owner that the property has been rented out.
It happened to me and a whole year’s rent was involved.
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“Just to remind people about the new comment rating system on http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com. If a poster gets enough negative comments then their post fades and you have to click on the comment to read it. So far GCs are receiving almost no negatives for their posts but Campbell Thomas (Sgt Pike) is the first to get a poor comment rating and therefore be faded into obscurity.”
Hilarious! Did I hear a door slamming? Anyone who needs supporters to gauge their readers’ letters isn’t fit to edit a shopping list – as I think you know
Is this based on gold stars and sweets at FE colleges?
You can’t challenge the GCs AND can’t handle a Brit who isn’t a TRNC stooge. To resort to such pettiness speaks volumes about your character and insecurities.
Don’t pretend to be a journalist, Malcy. Stick to the blog. It’s so much safer for the ego.
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Ooh, I like it when you get angry. So you won’t be contributing any more? I hope we don’t lose too many readers because of that, or maybe you’ll actually write something worth reading as you promised, instead of being continually acid.
The ”letting agent”-Remax- claim all sorts of services and then disappear from sight. Stitch up would seem an appropriate phrase.
Police? What police? The part timers who supply no crime number, lack the courtesy to respond to phone calls and accept locals mistruths despite evidence to the contrary.
As no government email addresses respond to representations where does one go for police and justice?
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Malsancak wrote: “Ooh, I like it when you get angry.”
But not quite as angry as you must have been to pillory one of your own (censored) contributors on another website. Or was it just a spiteful bid for publicity? Judging by how many people are responding to your articles, it looks as though you should be more concerned about attracting readers in the first place.
You can do that by behaving as proper newspaper editors do and supporting freedom of speech and accountability. My local rags regularly carry unedited letters describing Tony Blair as a war criminal and criticising Gordon Brown, New Labour and British politicians as crooks and charlatans. Yet when I described the TRNC as being founded on illegality (UN Resolutions) and dishonesty (sale of refugee property and institutional corruption) you spiked my response so nobody could read it. You called it “acid”. Journalists call it fair comment.
Malsancak wrote: “…maybe you’ll actually write something worth reading as you promised.”
But then believed you had honourable intentions setting up the “Free Press”. Maybe now you should define a free press and clarify who you stand for – the people or the ruling elite?
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That’s more like it
I agree with this post. It’s strange how an apartheid system seem to operate in NCFP as to who can be critical of the TRNC authorities. And it’s equally strange that the editor of NCFP would wish to stifle free expression, especially words of warning like these:
If we’re really allowed to make our own morals up I’d say don’t complain when you get your fingers burnt in the “TRNC”. Considering the territory is based on lawlessness and immorality, it follows that extreme caution should be exercised in any transaction. Your rights are severely limited.
So I would ask the editor if he is more concerned about upsetting the authorities (still “waiting for them to drop”
or if he really wants to serve his readers.
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hands up all those who paid tax on their rentals
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hands up all those who think they could claim a tax rebate if the tenant absconded without paying the rent, left huge utility bills and stole some of the contents as they did in this article