LookAtVietnam – The university entrance exams will come in just one month, and it is now the time for students to flock to the cities from their villages.

The university entrance exams will come in just one month, and it is now the time for students to flock to the cities from their villages. The owners of rooms to rent are following up their advantages and raising room rental.

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Since the beginning of June, students have begun flocking to HCM City to attend exam preparatory classes. The rooms for rent in the city have become full of students, especially the low cost rooms on Phan Van Tri, No Trang Long in Binh Thanh districts and in some other districts of Tan Binh, Tan Phu, Thu Duc and Go Vap.

In normal days, the rental is just 400,000-500,000 dong per student. However, the rental has increased by 100,000 dong per student these days.

“A 15 square m room with an attic would be enough for five students. Every student has to pay 600,000 dong a month, not including the money for electricity and water. We always charge higher fee on special days than ordinary days,” said a landlord in Thanh Da area.

Also according to the landlord, 600,000 dong a month is the “soft” leasing fee, which is applied to popular rooms. High-grade rooms have even higher rental.

“I am told that students nowadays do not like going to big cities any more. However, I still can rent my rooms at high rental,” he said.

However, there are no more popular rooms for students to rent these days because all the rooms have been booked already. Many students who come to the cities later than their friends have to rent high-grade rooms at very high prices.

Nguyen The Anh and Le Manh Huu, two students from Kon Tum province, said they spent two days looking for rooms on Phan Dang Luu street which have the rentals of up to 1 million dong, but they could not find any.

“If you have a rent room with ‘soft’ rental, you have to go farther. However, we want a room which is located near the exam preparatory centre,” Anh said.

Huu went on to day that in fact, there are many rooms to rent, but all of the rooms are too expensive for them. Finally, Anh and Huu decided to rent a room on Bach Dang street in Binh Thanh district.

Not only the students, who have arrived in big cities, complain about high room rentals, but the students, who are living in big cities already, are also crying about room rental. Many students said that their landlords have raised the room rental or asked to take the rooms back, so that they can rent to new students at higher fees.

As such, in order to attain rooms, many students have to accept paying higher rentals.

Hoan, a third-year student of the HCM City University of Foreign Trade, said that the her landlord, at first, also wanted to take room backs to lease to the students who have arrived in HCM City to prepare for the university entrance exams. The 12 rooms of the three-story building here all have the rental of 1.2 million dong a month. However, the landlord would get 2 million dong a month if he leases the rooms to other students. Hoan said after a lot of exertion, Hoan and her friends have accepted to pay 100,000 dong more a month for each, in order to attain the rooms.

Nguyen Van Hung, a student of the Water Resources University, complained that he and a friend of his now have to look for a room to rent now, because he just has to give back the room to the landlord.

“We accept to pay higher rental, but the landlord has been insisting in taking the room back,” Hung said. “It is very difficult to look for rooms to rent these days.”

“While many families allow students to stay in their houses free of charge, many other landlords have taken full advantages of this occasion to overcharge students,” he added

Source: Dan tri