Renting an apartment in Poland

My wife went to Wroclaw to look for an apartment we can rent. I turned out that almost all advertisements we looked at were from real estate agencies. To actually look at the apartment one has to pay a fee of about $10-$20, which is strange, but acceptable. However if someone decides to rent it the fee for the agency is one month rent which in our case is about a thousand dollars. I think this is outrageous.

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