INSTANTANE: “we Suspend Fraudulent Agents Indefinitely”

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20 sept. 2017 12:50

What prompted the creation of a platform like this ? After school we found ourselves in Douala and started looking for an apartment to rent. It was very difficult and the ICT engineer that we are, we decided to put a platform in place where people will not walk to get houses but have some facilitation. Do you work with real estate agents ? When we started the adventure, we identified serious real estate agents in big towns like Douala, Kribi and Yaounde and gave them access to the platform to publish their announcements and available houses. We assured customers that the real-estate agents are credible since we have worked with them. We do not allow access to everybody because there are guys who dupe and are still duping people of their hard earned currency. Some will ask for a sum of between FCFA 5,000 and FCFA 10,000 to customers who just want to visit the house not even taking into consideration whether the person will like the house or not. Should the person finally get engaged in the house, some of the agents ask for a rent of two months as commission which entails FCFA 200,000 if the house rent is FCFA 100,000 monthly. Same goes with a piece of land; they ask for a percentage of the selling price say five per cent which is equally huge. What are the procedures to get a house through Koutchoumi platform ? The client just has to go to google then type koutchoumi.com and the platform ...