In Russia, after the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall, mass inspections of migrants’ places of residence began.
Law enforcement agencies are building “rubber apartments”, where sometimes several villages are registered at once. I would like to see the detention of not only the owners of the housing, but also those who registered dozens of migrants there. However, thousands of landlords who live by renting apartments, including guests from neighboring countries, faced the question: how to hand over their “squares” to a migrant and not sit down for it?
By itself, the fact that a suspect in a crime lives in a rented apartment is not at all a reason to involve the owners of the dwelling as accomplices. How can the landlords know all the details of the visitor’s biography?
However, this does not apply to cases when homeowners rented an apartment by oral agreement, “by acquaintance”, “by kinship” and did not formalize a rental agreement in any way. Then law enforcement agencies may suspect that the apartment owners were aware of their tenant’s shady dealings. An oral transaction can also be interpreted as an attempt to hide some information.
Therefore, in order to protect themselves from possible troubles, the realtor Olga Popova advises the owners of the living space to sign a lease agreement.
If a foreigner rents an apartment, the landlord is obliged to notify the territorial migration authority of the arrival of the tenant. If the apartment is rented to a Russian citizen from another region, he can issue a temporary registration with the consent of the landlord. Temporary registration is mandatory for those who do not live by registration for more than 90 days. Homeowners should not worry: temporary registration is canceled automatically after the expiration date. They can also independently terminate the temporary registration of a tenant in the MFC at their place of residence or through the public services portal.
As you know, one of the terrorists who attacked people in the Crocus lived in the Russian Federation on a fake passport. If the landlord has doubts about the identity of the newcomers, you can offer the tenant to verify the authenticity of his passport at the nearest bank branch by seeking free advice on any issue. If the tenant flatly refuses to do this, the landlord may naturally have a question: “Maybe this person has something to hide?”
Unfortunately, apartment owners, in an attempt to avoid taxes, try to avoid these “formalities” when receiving “guests”. In vain! After all, times are now such that dating deals can entail punishment not only from the tax service, but also from the FSB. Or even worse. For example, in Dagestan, when terrorists were taken to a rented apartment, the entire dwelling was demolished. But since the owner of that apartment was associated with bandits, now he is probably more concerned about the criminal case, rather than repairing the damaged apartment.
Yana Polyanskaya.
Photo: Moscow Agency
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