This article is from WeChat official account:New Weekly (ID: new-weekly)< span class = "text-remarks">, author: Qian Yu, editor: Amy Wang, title figure: vision China

This class of young people has experienced the stock market crash, P2P, and new crown pneumonia, but they did not expect to be forced into a dead end by the Internet for long-term rental apartments.

“I just paid an annual rent of 20,000 yuan in the egg shell at noon. I was driven out of the door by the landlord at night. I took my luggage and sat for a night at the 24-hour KFC. I thought of death for a while.” Tell your own story like this in a group. He tried to call the customer service call of Eggshell Apartment, and he also tried to squat at the headquarters of Eggshell Apartment in Beijing, but they all had a “closed door”. After being brought to an eggshell apartment rights activist group by Xiao Xiao who had the same experience, he ignited again. A little hope.

It’s not the worst to be driven out after paying the rent. What’s worse is that Xiaoxin has to continue to repay the “rental loan”, otherwise it will affect personal credit.

There are many young tenants like Xiaoxin and Xiao Xiao. As of press time, the reporters investigated and visited rights defenders in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other places. The number of defenders was as high as 5,000. Among them, the main landlords and tenants were mainly landlords and tenants, not including the unpaid employees of Eggshell Apartments. And suppliers, and the rights defenders that reporters know and sneak into are just the tip of the iceberg for those who suffer economic and rights losses from eggshell thunderstorms.

Ironically, due to the news that the eggshell apartment may be taken over by my love, the share price of the eggshell apartment listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States soared 75% and 90% in two days, from 1.37 US dollars to 4.5 US dollars. .

One sideIt is a carnival in the capital market, on the one hand, there are thousands of users who have no way to protect their rights. For more than half a month, the eggshell apartment app was paralyzed, the housekeeper lost contact, the tenant’s deposit could not be refunded, and the landlord’s rent was not received. There was no sign of solution, and the eggshell apartment did not issue any statement to solve the problem , Only spoke through Sina’s official blog on November 16: Eggshell Apartment did not go bankrupt, nor did it run away, but was caught in a crisis of tight capital chain and will not go bankrupt.

Ent Biz not only watched the communication issues in the group, but also conducted individual interviews with some of the group members. Tenants account for a relatively high proportion of the group members, mainly young workers born in the 1990s, and a small number of landlords and eggshell housekeepers, and their demands and losses are also different.

The eggshell business has been discontinued: no after-sales service, no new business

The reason why the tenant pays the annual rent, but the landlord rushes out on the grounds that they have not received the money is because the eggshell apartment model is to collect preferential annual rent from the tenant, and then Call the landlord on a monthly basis to generate leverage for funds.

“I just renewed my lease in September, and the Internet started to be disconnected in October. Later, the cleaning lady did not come to clean the house, and then the landlord came to drive people.”

Xiao Zhang said that he only learned that the landlord had not received the rent for more than a month. When the accident happened in early November, the eggshell sent a housekeeper to deal with it. The housekeeper came forward and said that Eggshell has encountered a financial problem, and the tenant can choose to withdraw the rent. As long as the cancellation process is applied on the Eggshell APP, the rent can be refunded. Xiao Zhang didn’t want to be bothered by the matter anymore, so he accepted the proposal and moved out of his original residence after the application process was completed.

“The APP did show that the refund was successful, but the money has not been credited to the associated