Home truths in our ooru

Bengaluru | Saturday | 8th June, 2019

Summary:

Students, locals and migrants often feel powerless and feel the rental amounts are exorbitant. With five per cent increase in rental and deposit amounts every year, tenants are finding it difficult to rent apartments that fall within their budgets. Mousumi Mishra from Orissa, working in an MNC, says how she paid the deposit amount demanded by her land-lord. This could run into six digits making it difficult for tenants to cough up such high amounts to pay. So I decided not to move to Bengaluru.”Looks like tenant’s woes continue in namma ooru..