For a month now, they have been discussing the initiative of the Ministry of Construction to create a platform for registering real estate lease transactions.

Well, as they say, the groans and weeping of rentiers are everywhere.

They say that the state again climbs where it is not necessary. They say that again the authorities want to rip off everyone like sticky. They say that officials set out to strangle the rental housing market. They say that the market will inevitably now go into the shadows.

I watch this madness and wonder. Will the rental market go into the shadows? Is this some kind of joke? And now where is he, not in the shadows? And where are all these citizens who are constantly shouting that they want everything to be like in Europe, like in the West, like in the civilized world. The society was only offered to legalize the segment of private rent, people were only reminded that when receiving income, taxes must be paid. Where is the panic?

Yes, I’m also a little sorry that the state has undertaken to restore order in the sphere of rental housing - this heavy, clumsy machine. I would like the market participants to come forward with the legalization initiative. But somehow they haven't matured yet. Thirty years was not enough for them. We still have more than 95% of all housing deals in the gray zone. The situation is slightly better in Moscow, where every fifth contract seems to be registered, every fifth owner of an "investment" apartment still pays taxes.

The rest believe that they owe nothing to anyone. The rest are outraged and offended. They see even a 4% tax as universal injustice (namely, this is how much owners can pay if they rent out their meters as self-employed).

The rest have already announced almost an ultimatum: either they pass the new costs on to the tenants, or... What "or", however, is incomprehensible in the general chorus of the dissatisfied. They will probably deprive us, the poor, of the opportunity to rent their hereditary Khrushchev apartments and studios in anthills near the metro, and now we will all have to get into mortgages.

Speaking of mortgages. Mortgage, of course, is evil, like any usury, but until the Kingdom of God is settled on earth, it seems today to be a more optimal solution to the housing problem. For example, I learned this from my own experience. A couple of years ago, in my life, this damn housing issue arose quite sharply, with all its diabolical inevitability. I didn’t want to go into loans at all, and the search for a suitable option for renting was unsuccessful.

In general, the development of the rental market, its diversity is such a huge myth. More or less developed in our country are only the economy segments a la "odnushka near the metro" and, possibly, premium with two-level apartments along the embankments and country mansions (but this is not certain). In the middle price segment, it is extremely difficult to find something for a large family. To find this something else with the official registration of the contract is absolutely fantastic. And when renting an apartment with children, you still want some kind of guarantees.

I personally was ready to pay extra for such an agreement. I offered a surcharge of 13% (even self-employment would not have to be registered), but no, people didn’t want to bother. I didn’t want to connect to the Internet, I didn’t want to take out the disassembled broken furniture stored on the loggia, I didn’t want to notice point-blank that it was time to change the faucet, I didn’t want a harmless guinea pig living in the house. I only wanted to receive money every month, I wanted deposits and that I pay the commission of a realtor, whom I did not think to contact. In general, I decided that it would be better to give the same amount to the bank every month.

The fact that the landlord does not want to think about the comfort and safety of his customers is not surprising. It's amazing that he doesn't want to defend himself. Whoever you listen to from the owners, some kind of terrible story happened to each of them at least once in their life: either the tenants will arrange a flood and immediately, without warning, they will move out, then the furniture will be destroyed and they will not want to compensate for the damage, then they will turn the apartment into a den, then the police will swoop in and find illegal substances. Well, how, tell me, to resolve all this, if, according to legend, “relatives from Voronezh live free of charge” in the apartment?

It is clear that the registration of a lease agreement does not guarantee that the state will come and solve all the problems, and even easily and quickly. But there will be at least a reason to demand their decision.Okay, you don’t have to wait for consciousness from a private owner, from someone who rents out the only apartment inherited from a grandmother or a daughter or son bought on a mortgage for growth (mortgage apartments, by the way, cannot be rented out without the consent of the bank). But, for example, a business that provides intermediary services, why does it not see a problem in anything? The same real estate agencies, Internet services for placing ads, why don't they come up with an initiative to whitewash the market? The same CIAN, which criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Construction, sees an opportunity to make the market more civilized only in a ban on ads in which an apartment is rented “only to Slavs”? Really? That is, there are progressives, and there are savages, right? In general, it’s embarrassing to watch how the representatives of CIAN, Avito, and Yandex.Real Estate are now twisting. Entrepreneurs say something about the loss of user confidence, they are offended, like children, that they were not consulted, they are indignant that they frighten people with fines and do not offer new benefits.

Business does not believe that the state will do everything well and conveniently, that the platform for registering transactions and paying taxes will work normally, without failures. These concerns are understandable. I don't believe either. But why can't you come up with your own initiative to do well? At least try. After all, if it works, you can still earn. But no, business, like the wife of an alcoholic, prefers to justify the negligence of its customers and negotiates unreasonable concessions for them.

But paying taxes is okay. In a civilized society. How normal it is for society to ask what and how these taxes are spent, demand guarantees and defend rights. But persuading citizens to make an honest contribution to the improvement of society, markets, legal infrastructure, luring them with new sweets, is a kindergarten. And the nursery group is to run and hide, justifying their own greed and stupidity by the fact that they will plunder everything anyway and "again they will not give anything." But growing up is inevitable. As a matter of fact, we have already grown up, whether one likes it or not, but yesterday's pants are a little short, they are funny and ridiculous - it's time to change.

The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.

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