After my housemates and I had looked round the property we had decided it was more or less okay (and were sufficiently sick of looking round houses that we decided to just take it), though the landlord was perhaps a little odd. We went over to his office to go and sign the contract, where we were asked to remove our shoes on entry. This has never happened to me at any other place of business, but being the polite young men we are, we complied.
This was the point where the first massive lie occurred.
Landlord: "So that'll be £268 per month, with the same again as a deposit."
Tennants: "Okay, that sounds fine."
Landlord: "I'll also need a £100 admin fee from you all."
Tennants: "... Your advert said no agency fees."
Landlord: "This isn't an agency fee! It's an admin fee! To do all the reference checking, and data entry, and that sort of thing!"
Tennants: "So... All the things an agency does?"
Landlord: "No, it's an admin fee."
As I've said, we were all sick of looking at houses, so decided to cough up without further argument. But it was a sign of things to come.
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