Regardless, in any country there will always be a tenant looking for a house to occupy and a landlord looking to benfit from his or her property through letting it out. Perhaps what is peculiar to our situation is that accommodation is in such short supply for a country as big as Botswana and a town the size of Gaborone. This has driven rent rates through the roof. However, the most important and grave consequence of this state of affairs is that desperate tenants have to look around and interact with a largely lawless and greedy real estate industry. The Real Estate Professionals law only deal with matters of registration for agents. It contains little in the way of governing the interaction between real estate agents and tenants. Furthermore general practice means that a tenant is always dealing with a landlord from a position of weakness. For example there is no law governing the bond. A bond is paid to the landlord or the owner of the property. It is the same landlord or real estate agents who later on determines what portion of the bond is to disbursed to the tenant when the contract elapses. The bond funds are granted to the landlord or real estate agent without any third party to govern the interaction between landlord and tenant. This means that the landlord or estate agent has all the power. We know that there are real estate companies who hold tenants hostage or seek to rip helpless tenants of bond funds. In many jurisdictions, there is an authority that oversees the agreement between tenant and landlord. Often this is in a form of a housing authority. The authority makes sure that both tenant and landlord discharge their responsibilities to each in an equitable way. In the absence of such a body, the tenant remains stuck, having to choose the lesser evil between an unscrupulous landlords and homelessness.
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