Letting agents and landlords were targeted at the weekend by demonstrators protesting about the private rental market.
Acorn Bristol, a tenants’ rights movement, organised the protest which attracted about 70 people.
Demonstrators dressed as ‘vampire estate agents’ and visitors to a ‘house of rental horrors’.
The aim of the protest was to publicise the organisation’s Ethical Lettings Charter, which aims to ban letting agent fees charged to tenants, and introduce rent controls.
Here is how the Bristol Post reported it.
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So who is going to pay for the credit checks? Obtaining References? Protecting their deposits? They should look into regulating the fees, not banning them entirely. What's to stop a tenant applying for 5 different properties and wasting an agents time? Sadly it's the agents who charge tenants pointless, extortionate fees that has caused this. Charging a tenant £50 to meet them at the property and take the keys off them?