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I recently signed a leased agreement for a furnished room with My Living Space which is a real estate agent in Cape Town. The rental was R7500 and the deposit was the same amount. The lease agreement stated that I needed to pay an amount of R2000 if I do not fumigate the property before I leave. Upon staying at the room i was renting, the bed provided was subpar and the wardrobe was so small that it didn’t even have shelves. So I queried about these issues and was told that I can get my own bed if I want to. Also there was only one normal fridge with a single door for the freezer and normal part of the fridge and two bar fridges for sharing between 10 tenants. So I decided to terminate my lease. 72 hours had not yet passed when I did this and I went through a process of finding a replacement tenant so that I can get my deposit back. Now I found a tenant and they started renting the place. The agent now tells me that I have to pay R1500 for the fact that I did not advertise the room when the tenant they have came through me. Also I have to pay R2000 for fumigating despite not staying over 72 hours in the property. I am due to get no refunds for the rental amount and my deposit refund is now R4000. This is *****ed at its finest. The correspondence from the company is also very poor. There is no phone number you can call and you can only talk to them through a lady called Bhavna. She often was not responding to my texts as soon as I wanted to terminate my lease.