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Interestingly in Germany I'd encountered analogical but reversed situation. Landlords coming up with made up fees and deducting them from the deposit, incorpora
by durnygbur 7y ago
Interestingly in Germany I'd encountered analogical but reversed situation. Landlords coming up with made up fees and deducting them from the deposit, incorporating the unlikely risk that tenant will fight for their money in the court. In no other place in EU where I have been living in, the relationship between tenant and landlord has been so tense and stressful.
- Slartie 7y agoYes, this happens, mostly between private landlords (of which Germany has a lot) and tenants of (seemingly or actually) limited legal competence (because private tenants are in fact relatively well-protected by law except for some gaping loopholes ("Eigenbedarf" being the most-exploited one), but of course accessing that protection often means they have to go to court first, which is a considerable financial and cognitive bar not everyone is able to jump over). I am not sure if it's more often than in other European countries, because I refuse to believe it doesn't happen there as well. You have a large difference in power, it gets exploited, one way or the other way round.
- durnygbur 7y ago> I am not sure if it's more often than in other European countries, because I refuse to believe it doesn't happen there as well. You have a large difference in power, it gets exploited, one way or the other way round. Imagine that in places in Czechia and Poland where I was renting long term, the landlords were returning the full deposit in cash, in exchange for the apartment keys.