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What should I check before paying a token amount?

Before you pay a token amount, check that the person taking it is the actual owner or has written authority to rent out the flat, by asking for the title documents or at least the latest tax receipt.

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Check the flat matches what you were shown, confirm the rent, deposit, notice period and move in date in writing, and get a signed receipt for the token itself, stating it will be adjusted into the deposit. Ask what happens to the token if either side backs out, since this is rarely written down unless you ask. Never pay a token in cash without a receipt.

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No outside source: this is how the practice works, in words, with nothing to cite.

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What should I check before paying a token amount?

A renter's question, answered from the record and the law.

Every number on this page is dated, and its source is named beside it. The law is what the statute says; the practice is what Bengaluru does, and where the two differ, both are written down.

Send this page to whoever you are moving with; a home is usually chosen by two people at eleven at night. The next step is one message to the desk with the budget, the size and the office.

The record answers the question. The desk confirms the home.
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