求助：关于房租交付问题？？？

mariapoon78

if you will honour the contract and stay for the whole period, there is no difference to pay all the rent at the beginning of term or not.  I am a landlord and I have  bad experience from students.  They moved away without paying the last term of rent while I was away on holiday. Then they didn't answer any email, text message or my phone call. The house was dirty and the bills were not paid.  Now I learnt the mistake and will ask students to pay all the rent at beginning of term.

mariapoon78

As a landlord, I find it is too much trouble to bother students once a month.  If I have an agency to collect rent for me, the cost of paying agency is around 10-15% of rent which will add on to the cost of the rent and the students will have to pay more. For good tenants, it is alright for landlord to collect rent every two or three months. Unfortunately, there are more and more students go home straight away after exam in May and will not pay the last term of rent which is not fair to the landlord.