What "fee" is completely useless?

[lawrawrrr]

Ugh, I hate ticket booking fees, especially when they're like half the price of the ticket!!!

[Neversoft]

Yeah they charge us 150 I think to renew ours.. we never even get a new contract to say we are keeping it another year. We're just about to pay all the new fees for our new property and altogether including deposit and first months rent it's over 2k which is just shocking. We've had to pay a fee for us to have a guarantor because I'm still a student for two months, which is ridiculous to have to pay to have them.. The entire thing is a joke. I'm expecting them to take away some of our deposit too just because they can.

Wow, damn. I thought 50 was taking the biscuit but 150 is just daylight robbery. Just goes to show all these estate agents do the same job but make up their own prices from nothing. When I earned just below their much desired '30x the rent' threshold, I got around having to sort out a guarantor by paying six months rent upfront, which was absolutely not ideal, but I am very frugal and get irritated when I have to dish out money for nothing. Since they also have to reference the guarantor then I think it's reasonable to charge extra for that, but then to add even more on top just for the simple reason of having a guarantor is unjustifiable. They just see things in terms of how much money they can get. The deposit is a lot more secure, but I have had some landlords try to dip their hand in it for seemingly no reason. There's so much to look out for an be aware of when renting. The current laws and regulations seem totally stacked in the favour of landlords and lettings agents.