Anyone experienced 'rental rage' yet?
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SMH:
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First there was road rage, now its rental rage.
Real estate agents managing Sydney's rental market are copping abuse and threats from prospective tenants due to the squeeze on property vacancies.
Sydney rental vacancies in August remained at 1.2 per cent - unchanged from the previous month, the Real Estate Institute of NSW reports.
"The situation is now so grave that we are unfortunately experiencing incidents of rental rage with the real estate agents saying they are being abused and threatened," Mr Martin said in a statement.
A survey of 200 agents around NSW in August found that about a third of respondents had been threatened or abused over the phone by potential tenants within the past month.
In one case police had to be called after the face-to-face harassment of an agency reception staff member.
In another incident, a tenant in arrears who was facing a rent increase and eviction threatened to hang himself in the house so no one else would want to live in it.
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