Rental Insurance sees the Consumer sanction proposal as “abusive” and announces that it will allege
Rental Insurance has announced that present allegations against the proposal for a sanction from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs with the aim of defending the legality of its services and has added that the amount of the sanction (3.6 million euros) is “abusive” and “disproportionate”.
The company has confirmed in a statement that it complies with the law, that does not carry out abusive practices in rental management and that all the services it offers to owners and tenants are “transparent, public and voluntary”, including the costs of management and formalization of the contract, which fall exclusively on the landlord.
The company has also indicated that three court rulings have endorsed the legality of the services offered to clients, as well as the voluntariness in subscribing to them, specifically, the Tenant Service Service (SAI).
In this sense, he has indicated that the Court of 1st Instance No. 104 of Madrid has been the last to dismiss a lawsuit against the company for charging for this service, clarifying that it is not abusive, does not represent an imposition and includes a series of voluntary benefits that are useful to tenants throughout the duration of the rental contract.
According to Rental Insurance, the ruling that dismissed the lawsuit of a tenant who demanded a refund of the amount contracting this service, establishes that the company offered a tenant service contract “without any type of imposition.” Furthermore, he pointed out that two other courts have ruled in the same sense.
Following the proposed sanction by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, its head, Pablo Bustinduy, has stressed that abuses in the housing market they are going to pay “very dearly” and that no company is going to be above the law.
