It can be free if you say that you can wait >1 week for it. But in 99% of the case you need the CoR same day and then its not illegal to pay for this express handling.
No you‘re not stuck, why should you be. The normal agents just help reducing waiting hours and/or finding a bank who opens an account for you. We had our non-O retirement 90 days we had to go to immi for CoR and getting the bank letter we had to go in person sothe agent just helped us with all those documents needed for the first time only and went to immigration. As we had all docs required there was no problem opening a bankacc.
The following year I did it all by myself. Never co tacted the agent since then.
yes a very good idea, never thought I would need so many copies here in TH. Its more comfortable than always running to find and drive to a copy shop where by tge way the copies look awful.
I registered the house from the landlord with his copies of housebook and ID he gave me and made an new own account on the website. Once registered and logged in I just add may personal datas requested in the fields every time I need it and thats it. I can even print it
(most landlords just don‘t want to do a TM30 everytime and are glad if the tenant takes over this work)
Whatever quote you got there from wherever, is wrong. I do TM30 registering online (for myself) very often, and me as the tenant only put in my name, passp. no. tel.no. male/female and nothing else.