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This assumes there is a lot of good players, tenants and landlords and they are just waiting for a good app which will let them find each other finally. From m

by viach 6y ago

This assumes there is a lot of good players, tenants and landlords and they are just waiting for a good app which will let them find each other finally. From my experience, this market is conflict driven, there is no such thing as good landlord and good tenant.

durnygbur 6y ago
I'm a professional earning 1.5-2.5 the average national salary. I'm moving abroad to a new city and ready to pay 20-30% of my net salary on rent. I'm paying the rent and media regularly on time and the deposit on move in. I demand apartment in the price range 5-15 EUR/m^2 per month, in comfortable standard, and the full deposit back on move out. What invalidates me as a good tenant? Then given my requirements above, each time dealing with rental market in any even marginally desirable city in EU, it's like being hit by a train driving at full speed... Sure it's better to rent short term to some banana youngsters from Germany, Scandinavia or other rich countries, who come over to get wasted and get free sex, then to wreck the place. Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation.
- seszett 6y ago
  > Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation. Honestly, I have had the same issues as a Frenchman in France, in Canada and in Belgium. I don't think it's really (or not only at least) tied to your country of origin being formerly communist or poor.
- botwriter 6y ago
  Not sure where you're looking for a property but a lot of eastern Europeans countries are seen as hubs for organised crime. I remember being told by a Bulgarian I used to work with that he tried to avoid other Bulgarians here in the UK because so many were involved in organised crime.
- viach 6y ago
  > What invalidates me as a good tenant? Nothing, I believe you are a good tenant. But this competitive market with limited resources has "perfect is the enemy of good" situation. Landlords can choose and they want perfect.
  - durnygbur 6y ago
    > But this competitive market with limited resources has "perfect is the enemy of good" situation. Landlords can choose and they want perfect. The same applies to (online) dating and recruitment. The life fundaments of a perfectly average individual - housing, life partner, and employment are becoming out of reach for most. We've got a deadlock situation over here.
eeZah7Ux 6y ago
There's plenty of good tenants.

by viach 6y ago

durnygbur 6y ago

I'm a professional earning 1.5-2.5 the average national salary. I'm moving abroad to a new city and ready to pay 20-30% of my net salary on rent. I'm paying the rent and media regularly on time and the deposit on move in. I demand apartment in the price range 5-15 EUR/m^2 per month, in comfortable standard, and the full deposit back on move out. What invalidates me as a good tenant? Then given my requirements above, each time dealing with rental market in any even marginally desirable city in EU, it's like being hit by a train driving at full speed... Sure it's better to rent short term to some banana youngsters from Germany, Scandinavia or other rich countries, who come over to get wasted and get free sex, then to wreck the place. Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation.

seszett 6y ago
> Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation. Honestly, I have had the same issues as a Frenchman in France, in Canada and in Belgium. I don't think it's really (or not only at least) tied to your country of origin being formerly communist or poor.
botwriter 6y ago
Not sure where you're looking for a property but a lot of eastern Europeans countries are seen as hubs for organised crime. I remember being told by a Bulgarian I used to work with that he tried to avoid other Bulgarians here in the UK because so many were involved in organised crime.
viach 6y ago
> What invalidates me as a good tenant? Nothing, I believe you are a good tenant. But this competitive market with limited resources has "perfect is the enemy of good" situation. Landlords can choose and they want perfect.
- durnygbur 6y ago
  > But this competitive market with limited resources has "perfect is the enemy of good" situation. Landlords can choose and they want perfect. The same applies to (online) dating and recruitment. The life fundaments of a perfectly average individual - housing, life partner, and employment are becoming out of reach for most. We've got a deadlock situation over here.

eeZah7Ux 6y ago

There's plenty of good tenants.