NANS president, Turkish Zone call on North Cyprus authorities to look into the issue of overprized house rents
In a Facebook post with the hastag #reducerentincyprus on Tuesday, the president noted the exorbitant amount of money students are made to part with before they can get accommodation, even when there are no jobs for foreigners in the country.
In recent times there has been an unreasonable increase in the price of housing accommodation for foreign students in North Cyprus, these increments are outrageous and very unreasonable mostly for a community where jobs are highly scarce for foreigners, the president said.
He frowned at the move whereby students are made to pay as much as six-months to one-year rents and deposits in pounds when in fact they are not in the UK.
Students are requested to pay rents in pounds when they don't live in the United Kingdom and when the currency of the country is Turkish Lira. Also students are required to pay six months and one year rent, with two months deposit.
My question is why would a person pay a whole year rent and deposit as well.
He used the opportunity to call on the government of TRNC and landlords to make life easy for foreigners who are here to study.
I am using this opportunity to call on the house owners as well as the government of TRNC to please try their best to make life easy for foreign students who have come to study and do not even have jobs to earn a good living, the rents are very expensive and they should be reasonably brought down to an affordable rate for our African parents.
In future post, Olomoinfo Blog will bring you a comprehensive critical analysis of the issue. In the meantime what do you think can be done to salvage the situation?
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The problem is not the landlords is our own African brothers who are looking for money at every creeping angle,there are the ones who opened the eyes of these people that we have money. I can remember will in 2014 and 2015 rents were moderate and paid in tl. Those who have been here as long as five six years can affirmed with me that rents were relatively cheap until this business of agents by the same us African particularly Nigerians start eying money at all cost. They went and told these same landlords that "give me your house as an agent I will bring people who will pay in pounds, Euros or Dollars". Please agents are our problem not landlords. Our over sense don make us turn mumu. Hope say our mumu don do.
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