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Article: 'Place your bid if you want to rent my house' Everyone knows you have to pay over the odds to buy a house.
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- Aberdeen Evening Express
- Article date:
- July 24, 2007
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Everyone knows you have to pay over the odds to buy a house.
But now the property boom sweeping the North-east has hit rental
properties.
And one landlord is offering his home to the highest bidder.
Traditionally, properties for rent are on the market at a fixed
price.
But Chris Rigby, 32, is asking people to pay in excess of
pounds900 for 15 North Square, Footdee, a two bedroom cottage.
And he wants to "get as much for the property as possible".
"I don't want to put the cottage on the market too cheap, so
instead I am offering prospective tenants the chance to bid for a
lease," he said.
"If tenants really want it they are going to have to pay for it."
A severe shortage of rental ...