ASK267: The estate agent says I can’t view without giving them a bank statement – is this right? PLUS: Should I increase the rent again?
The Property Podcast
Rob Bence & Rob Dix
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rob, and I'm Rob, and this is Ask Rob and Rob. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Ask Rob and Rob. |
| 0:09.0 | It's still a shiny new year, but we've got a tried and tested format here. We've got two listeners asking |
| 0:15.0 | questions and us providing a pair of answers to match. And the questions just |
| 0:19.2 | keep on coming which is wonderful if you haven't asked your own yet and you do have a question, |
| 0:23.4 | send it our way. It's very, very easy to do. |
| 0:26.0 | It certainly is. The number to call if you'd like to leave us a voicemail is |
| 0:29.9 | 013, 808,000.00.35 or you can go to Property Hub. |
| 0:35.0 | dot net forward slash ask. |
| 0:38.2 | again super simple to do. |
| 0:40.2 | And luckily, Kathy has followed that very process. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi Robin Rob, my name is Kathy. Thanks so much for your podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | I really enjoy listening to them. |
| 0:49.0 | I have a question about viewings and proof on funds. |
| 0:52.0 | And a state agent has said to me that they won't let me view a property |
| 0:55.2 | unless I give them proof of funds. |
| 0:57.0 | But I really don't want to send them a bank statement because this is |
| 1:00.3 | highly confidential information. |
| 1:02.0 | And if I do multiple |
| 1:03.3 | viewings with multiple agents I don't want to be sending my bank |
| 1:06.2 | statement to all of them so to me this is such an invasion of privacy I don't |
| 1:10.1 | think they have any right to request that private information and it's none of their business. |
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