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Viral Tweet Reveals Man Was Rejected By Bengaluru Landlord With “Low” Class 12 Marks

April 28, 2023
Bharat Times

The tenant had scored 76% in class 12th, and the owner was expecting at least 90%.

Bengaluru is experiencing high demand for rental properties as a result of increased migration of software businesses and engineers to the city.

Finding housing for the working class is becoming more difficult due to issues such as rising rents and extremely high security deposit requests from landlords.

Taking advantage of the high demand for houses, landlords are also putting additional pressure on tenants to share unnecessary details.

Landlords often ask potential tenants for their LinkedIn profiles as well as information about their colleges and perhaps a brief bio.

Tenants in Bengaluru are increasingly taking to social media about their housing issues in the IT capital.

Currently, a post about a unique problem faced by a tenant is going viral on social media. The tweet, posted by a user named Shubh, said that a landlord refused to rent a house to his “cousin” in Bengaluru because of his poor marks in class 12th.

A Twitter user named Shubh shared screenshots of the conversation where the landlord rejected a potential tenant because his class 12 marks were not as high as the landlord wanted.

Shubh tweeted, “I can’t believe my cousin was denied a flat on rent by the owner as he got 75% in class 12th and the owner was expecting at least 90%. “

Problems for tenants are increasing day by day as landlords demand too many unnecessary details and high rents.

Landlords in the city, often called India’s Silicon Valley, now charge the highest proportion of their property value as rent outside financial hub Mumbai, according to data from market researchers.

The Karnataka state capital is home to more than 1.5 million workers, including Alphabet Inc. employees from global firms such as Google, Amazon.com Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Accenture Inc. That population was displaced during the pandemic, driving down rents as employees moved to remote jobs or moved out of town. With Bengaluru’s economy and private sector coming back to life, landlords looking to make up for lost revenue find themselves in a seller’s market.

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