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  • Good grades or goodbye: Bengaluru landlord’s rental criteria

    Good grades or goodbye: Bengaluru landlord’s rental criteria

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    The tech boom in Bengaluru has created a surge in demand for rental properties, making life tough for the city’s working-class house hunters. Soaring rents and exorbitant security deposits are only the tip of the iceberg, as landlords add to the stress by asking for all sorts of personal information.

    In this era of over-sharing, landlords in Bengaluru are taking it to the next level, requesting LinkedIn profiles, college details, and even mini autobiographies from prospective tenants. As frustrations mount, tenants are turning to social media to air their grievances in the IT capital.

    A viral tweet from a user named Shubh recently highlighted the bizarre standards set by some landlords. In this oddball case, the landlord rejected a tenant because his Class 12 marks didn’t meet the arbitrary 90% threshold – despite the fact that marks don’t have much bearing on someone’s ability to rent a home!

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    Shubh’s tweet, featuring screenshots of the conversation and a cheeky caption, quickly gained traction: “Marks don’t decide your future, but it definitely decides whether you get a flat in Bangalore or not”.

    As if dealing with Bengaluru landlords wasn’t challenging enough, the city has now surpassed Mumbai in charging the highest proportion of property value as rent. It’s no wonder that tenants are feeling the pinch, as they juggle ever-increasing costs and the endless personal questions from their potential landlords.

    (With inputs taken from agencies)

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Paris votes to ban rental electric scooters from city streets

    Paris votes to ban rental electric scooters from city streets

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    Paris: In a big blow to the electric mobility market, the city has voted to ban rental e-scooters from the streets.

    An overwhelming number of around 90 percent of votes cast supported a ban, official results showed.

    Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters in 2018, reports the Guardian.

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    In a referendum organized by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Sunday, residents voted 89 percent against keeping shared e-scooters in the city.

    Paris has almost 15,000 e-scooters across its streets, operated by companies including Lime, Dott, and Tier.

    The three companies will now have to pull their fleets out of the city by September 1.

    Hidalgo, who originally welcomed shared e-scooters to Paris, has pushed for the capital to become a more livable 15-minute city, reports TechCrunch.

    Hidalgo said that scooters are the cause of a lot of accidents and that the business model was too expensive to be sustainable, with a 10-minute ride costing about 5 euros.

    According to reports, a 31-year-old Italian woman was killed in June 2021 after being hit by an e-scooter with two passengers onboard while walking along the Seine.

    Dott, Lime and Tier said in a joint statement that the low voter turnout affected the results of the referendum.

    Only 103,084 people turned out to vote, which is about 7.5 percent of registered Paris voters.

    The ban will not have an effect on the e-bikes offered by shared micro-mobility companies, which will remain in the city.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )