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You forgot 'Why?'. Am I the only one here who strives for a free country? Please do me a favour next time you speak to a government department tell them *(#*($#*( from me.

I'm not sure if you meant to address me or Shady, since you quoted shady but then addressed me, but I'll assume you meant to address me for the purpose of this reply... So you disagree with me? That means you feel that agents shouldn't have the right to make bad business decisions. I never...

Yeah I wasn't saying it was good business sense, I was just saying REAs should have the right to be able to charge it if they want to (even if it does drive people to their competition).

My thoughts exactly :rolleyes:

Duh, no-one's forcing tenants to apply for particular properties either. It's a shame agents aren't free to charge whatever they like... after all, prospective customers (tenants) could then choose to deal with cheaper agencies. Maybe we'll start to see the emergence of the rental equivalent...

Okay, landlord has to give a month's notice to evict tenant, but tenant only has to give 2 weeks notice to say goodbye to landlord. I'm not going to sit here and list the 1000 other things that are wrongly in their favour.

I fail to see why agents shouldn't be allowed to charge an application fee. This is yet another warped law to unfairly favour the all-too-powerful tenants.