Tag: payment
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‘Integrity is gold’: honest man in China travels from afar to pay back US$20 he owed guest house from a year ago when broke
A man who travelled a long way to pay 150 yuan (US$20) he owed for a night’s stay at a guest house a year before, has won plaudits on mainland social media. The guest house owner, surnamed Yuan, who runs an establishment in Dongguan, Guangdong province in southeastern China, said she was moved that the ... -
‘Can an agent demand a gift for negotiating rent?’
Question: Our real estate broker wants us to pay a full year’s rent before providing us with a signed tenancy contract. Is this normal practice in the UAE, because this is not how it’s done in the UK? The broker also said he wants a gift or cash for negotiating the price I asked for. ...