I still had a personal appointment here. City and cheap appartment. Only once Was a couple there at the same time in all 3 times I moved. I guess 360k inhabitants does count as a city
Well yeah. You get an appointment to view (besichtigen) the apartment with the Vermieter. After 20 Minutes or so, the appointment is over, so others can come in.
@@shinichikudo7577 Ah interesting, where is this? In Berlin I've only got viewing appointments where there have been 20+ people present at the same time.
@@shaan7 Mostly in more rural areas. What's important is, that the apartment is being rented by a Wohnungsgesellschaft. Private people can be... Let's say... Strange.
@@cLokki no the kitchen comes with the appartment but anything you put in has to come out inc floors. If your lucky you can make a deal to leave more in with the next person who rents the place but they tend to wait showing the appartment till you are out lately
They made a law in France so that you have a least one light bulb per room. It’s mandatory. And it means you can live in the flat straight after having the keys.
Utilities are generally only included in HMOs and flatshares, in my experience. I rented my last place. It was fully furnished (and the bed and two sofas were actually not half bad), but I had to arrange and pay for my own utilities separately. Except water - for some reason that was included on top of the rent at a flat rate.
Also the landlord decides what kind of person they want living there so it's like you're in a big game of The Sims where the landlord/god says "some mothers and fathers here, some young librarians there"
Wait, so in Germany, you get to pick who you want in your building as the landlord that's amazing.on my estate in England we have at least 5 drug dealers I know of, 3 prostitutes, 2 sex offenders (in my country we don't get told like in the US we only know because we see them offend) 20+ ASBO holders, 5 on tag (electronic tracker for criminals on probation) and 5 immigrant families.
@@jackforshaw4439In the US you can evict tenants who use or sell drugs in rental unit as knowing about it (esp in cases of dealing) and not doing so could put the landlord at liability of criminal charges (rare that actually happens tho). Most leases include a clause forbidding illicit activity making it actionable to submit a 20 day notice to remedy or quit if you find out your tenant is violating that clause. The same would be true if a tenant was prostituting out of a rental unit (aka seeing clients in the unit). The UK has similar laws regarding illegality of prostitution and drugs so are you not able to do anything?? Do you guys not have similar clauses in your leases?
Meanwhile upholding the American understanding of giving everyone less, means more for you! No thanks, I’d rather my lack of free healthcare for landlords that are less douchey and services that actually provide for me
@@ThePatriotsrule1 I have no idea what you are saying. I read it like 5x but you are all over the place. If you were trying to insult me, good try. If you were trying to agree with me, ok
@ThePatriotsrule1 I don’t get how nobody understands what you said. You basically said “I’d rather have for profit healthcare that puts be into debt when I get sick than pay rent and everything else to a leaching landlord who puts all the responsibilities of renting out an apt on the renter”
Yes but here in Germany where everything has to be written and double checked and a whole other bureoucracy b*****it, everyone leaves the appartment stripped from lights and leave the naked cables hanging. You are lucky if the previous monkey didnt cut too much of the electric cables so you can still install another fitting without calling an overly expensive electrician who by the way have the next free Termin for you in 4 weeks. This is Germany.
@@AleksandarM987 that is dangerous and annoying, And yes domestic electricians do overcharge even here, Luckily I am more than capable of doing anything myself.
It is safe, there is always a little plastic thing on that you need to unscrew first.It's not that difficult to put a new lamp in, almost everyone can do it.
@@dogwalker666 hm not sure about the law, but if you rent a flat in Germany it's not unusual to have to do the installation yourself. It makes sense as not everone has the same taste when it comes to lamps and you also might want to change them after a while. The metal parts of the wires are not "exposed", they are covered with a plastic thing that you can unscrew, like mentioned above. I had to do it a few times myself and it's not a big deal. Obviously you need to take the necessary precautions and have the right tools, but i'd say roughly every second person I know, knows how to do it.
Exactly the same by the neighbors ; the Netherlands. I'm Dutch and my American friend is always shocked when I explain how renting in the Netherlands works haha 😅
I legit thought he was joking. I was pretty shocked when I moved to the US and found that I needed to install my own AC and buy furniture. This is too much...
Same it took me 5000 euro to instal the basic necessities and utilities in the house and that is pretty cheap I had to buy things like a dryer good oven ect after I saved up some more money. In the end I spent about 7000 for everything I needed and also the installation costs of the flooring. I can take it al with me yes but the first time renting is just insane. I’ve got a 100 square meter appartement plus 10 square meter balcony in a good neighborhood for 650 euro a month since I’m on disability. They can’t increase the rent anymore so I’m not planning on going anywhere 😂.
Damn Germany, one place the US got you beat, having furnished apartments. The only things missing from US apartments is usually a bed couch and TV. Everything else is included.
Sleeping in someone elses bed, matrass and linning ? 🤮 Also, I dislike to have to use everything else which has been used by someone else first, no matter if closets, cupboards, pans, plates and cuttlery and so on - it's something that makes me litteraly sick - reason why I deeply hate Hotels, they are disgusting 🤢🥶🤮
@@mbm8690 I just said apartment don’t come with a bed, tv, or couch. You have to buy those yourself. Also you can wash kitchen appliances/utensils. And not being able to use cupboards or or a countertop is just weird, you are weird for that, just wipe it down with cleaner. Spending 10 thousand dollars plus on furniture because someone else touched it doesn’t seem financially wise unless someone absolutely destroyed every piece of furniture in the building.
I had completely forgotten about the apartment I had for a month at Stuttgart University. Thankfully I had a kitchen. The itemised list of furniture, knives, forks and rules was pedantic, but I never worked out how TV was supposed to work. A colleague lent me a TV and I was informed that I had probably broken the law when I returned it at the end of the month. I think it is a bit like the BBC in the UK.
@@JR-rf9sq To watch TV you have to pay a TV licence. But this is regardless of whether you actually watch or not. If you are registered at the address they will come for your money. The only way to avoid it is if you aren't registered.. which is also illegal..
It sounds more conplicated than it is. You don't HAVE too look for a gas and electricity provider, it's just usually cheaper if you do so and if you don't know about it, it would be recommended. Utilities are more like maintenance cost while the "cold" rent is for the apartment only. It's beneficial for renters when its split like that bc the rent can only be raised within a certain percentage of the "cold" rent, if it was luped all together it would be easier to make higher increases. Also the "warm" part of the rent can be influenzed by e.g. good recycling.
@@zimzimphI’ve never heard of that before. I’m In the US, the renter has a right to privacy from the landlord, and any visits by the landlord have to be justified and made with due notice. As always with the US, keep in mind that there are a staggering number and variety of jurisdictions within the country, so there are going to be edge cases for pretty much anything, and that such cases are not indicative of the norm.
@@zimzimph😂😂😂. You believe that shit? My daughter leaves her clothes on the floor (she's 5) and we arent evicted. We will never be evicted. The landlord loves us.
Germany: -Humorless people -Bad weather or climate (almost no snow. Only rain in winter) -Too much LGBT -Narrow streets -Most of the cars are manuals -Too many idiots in traffic But good is: -Low crime rate -Money for jobless people -Best freeways in the world with only a few speed limits -Very good transportation
@@michiel5160 1.) Manual cars are crap. Drive a manual in traffic jam! Your left leg will hurt! 2.) Money for jobless people is great. Imagine you lost your job. Money is good!
@@Busfreak4000 In a manual you at least don't have to sit on the brake all the time in a traffic jam. To give money to people you have to steal it from others.
@@simon-x9410 I live in the UK and saw a subtitled Dutch TV documentary about people who lived on some shithole Dutch social housing estate, equivalent to a UK council estate. I was surprised to see that their attitudes, struggles and general outlook on life was absolutely the same as their British counterparts. Poor, hopeless, no prospects, the government abandoned them, and the local kids were feral and causing chaos. Everyone was also picking fights with migrants amd talking about how migrants had a better life than the locals. It's the exact same in the UK and I guess some problems are the same everywhere.
It's not always that much trouble. Sometimes people will leave some or all the furniture behind and you pay one price to buy it, which is of course cheaper than buying completely new stuff. I've never seen anyone taking away the light bulbs too 😅
It helps get humidity out of the apartment, but Germany doesn't get humid so you don't need it. I'm living in Florida now. It's cold enough to leave the windows open all the time, but furniture starts to smell like mildew because the doors are open and you aren't running the A/C. You have to program the computer to run the A/C at a warmer temperature an hour before you get home from work to keep the humidity down. You can get a dehumidifier, but it needs to run 24/7 and you need to empty the bucket 2 or 3 times while you are at work. You add up the electricity that a dehumidifier uses to be continuously ran and it is cheaper to run an A/C unit for an hour. Those buckets that dehumidify the air don't work.
In france, it's not at all like that hire they very often include the kitchen and toilets and lights and usually they either pay you more in rent for electricity and water or they make you sign that you will pay your own electricity and/or water and every visiting is separate not everyone at once (mostly because the apartments are quite small)
When it isn’t a high demand you normally have separate visits, especially when somebody is still living there. But because the demand is very high in big cities and you can’t schedule 20 meetings, it is possible that you make one big viewing where it can be over 20 people and thats it… but it is like just in cities like Berlin….
Toilet is also included in Germany. For the Rest, i personally Like it this way. Because there are places who are furnished or have a kitchen. But the Landlord charges more for this and it's mostly ugly cheap stuff. I'm searching fir an Appartment at the Moment and i viewed one where i Had to pay 50€ more, MONTHLY when i wanted them to Paint the Walls ... You can Imagine was they Charge when there is a kitchen or other stuff already in the Appartment xx.
It's the same for most of Europe. Except for the kitchen... The cupboards are never missing where I'm from. The stove maybe but they don't force you to completely renovate the apartment lol I don't how that's practical anyways
Right? Why would you as a landlord want a bunch of idiots draging big bulky equipment in and out of your building all the time? Why not set it up for the people then they just need to make it a home. I'm a landlord in the US
In 2000 I moved from northern Germany to south western Germany . 100 km south of Stuttgart. I first came in contact with this stupid rule . I had to clean the stairway every 4 weeks. No one wanted to change the date. So this clean weekend forced us to plan holiday with it. After a few years we moved in our owne house. I told my wife not to buy an Appartement or only buy one with cleaning service (Hausmeister Service)
This is actually something that shocked me as Scandinavian many years ago. Here renting apartments means all included (except for the bed & sofa of course).
Can someone really post a comment about what it really is like getting an apartment, I'm planning to move to Germany for School next year, and I feel like I jumped in the deep end of the pool without researching anything.
The video is kinda accurate, but you‘ll never be the only person wanting to get that apartment there. In cities, it can get pretty busy (30-50 people in worst case)
the video is quite accurate. No kitchen, furniture, maybe no pre-instaalled lights etc. Usually the previous tenant has installed a kitchen that you can buy from then, so you don't have to install one yourself. There is cold rent = without utilities and warm rent = with utilities. BUT warm rent doesn't have to inlcude all utilities. It usually includes trash and water, but electricity & gas (for heating and/or warm water) can be excluded. Than you either trust a private company or the "Stadtwerke" (the public provider from that city) and get your own utiity contract. "Kehrwoche" (eng. cleaning week) means that the tenants of the house have to clean common spaces like the staircase taking turns each week. It's more common in the south of Germany. Small advice: check which type and speed of internet that is available prior to getting a contract with a provider. Some apartments only have DSL since internet infrastructure in Germany isn't that good.
One important terminology was used but not explained: "Kaltmiete" = "cold rent" is the rent including cleaning service and garbage collection, but without heat. The amount you actually pay per month is "Warmmiete" = "warm rent", that is "cold rent" plus a monthly instalment for heating and hot water. 1,800 is on the upper end of the spectrum though; you can get cheaper but it's hard to find. Utilities like electricity, gas (if applicable), cable tv/phone/internet are separate and your own business.
If you are the type of person for that maybe you could consider joining a shared apartment (German Wohngemeinschaft - WG). Many students do that and this way you could just pay your part to the community and your flat mates care that the apartment bills get paid. You also don't have to buy kitchen stuff and other basic house hold items
subleasing is totally the way to go. finding my own apartment in Berlin seemed impossible, but I pretty easily found a room to rent in a nice unit with a great roommate. I got a huge room, with ceilings and a balcony inside my room, plus access to kitchen and bathroom of course for €750 a month. that was like 6 years ago though
And this is cheap? I pay 445€ in the City i live for 56m² i have all for myself, including a nice bathtubband a Garden i can use with one other Person who lives here. This is why i would never want to live in a Big City xx.
@adeclutteredlife6555 very cool. Yeah in America (USA) that's rare. Water being included is more common and having a furnished kitchen is very common. But I've never had electric included and my current house had nothing furnished. I had a sink in the kitchen and that was it. I had to buy my stove, refrigerator and everything else
They forgot to add if you need to hire someone to do some fixings there you need to hire a 3 year certificate technische for a cost close to the first 6 monts
I got the leftovers from the deceased previous renter like the livingrooms chandelier, whole kitchen from the 70s and a CRT for free, no AC allowed though😂
funny stuff! here in canada kitchens ,bathrooms and lights are include! you have a damage/ cleaning fee when you move out if anything is missing! utilities are your responsibility. --water if your not in a house. most is just electricity if you dont want power just dont have power.
@@EdgyShooter29 of the 50 states have deregulated energy which means there is competition on who provides energy to consumers. So yes there is free market In most states but monopolies in others which the federal government deems cheaper to have it that way.
@bingobongo1615 not with much. Because the other option is more expensive in my opinion. You have to buy a full damn kitchen set and appliances, put them in and when you leave, you have to call someone to take them down and you have to pay for them to be moved and installed to the new apartment and so on.
@denzelpanther240 Sorry, not everyone has time for that. And you need at least two people in case you want to put up floating cabinets. I think you didn't do it once in your life. Plus, if you move, the kitchen size might be different, and in that situation, you will end up with a ill fitted kitchen set . It's too small for the new apartment or too big. Is not all easy peasy lemon squeezy as you try to imply . The appliance you have may also not work in the new place. So instead, you worry about all that crap you better get from the start an apartment that has the m f kitchen and appliances installed already.
@@loredanadincu4300depends. Mostly you have to pay more monthly. So it adds Up pretty fast, depending how Long you want to live there. While you can Just Buy a nice kitchen and Take it with you everytime you move.
Okay as a German I would never pay 1800 for rent and its "cold rent" which means you'll have to pay almost 500 more and that only for an apartment that's 90 Quadratmeter, at least it should be 100
wow, since I have family in Germany, and I allowed my Opa to watch this, his exact words were you have to be a dune cuff, to think that you should be a responsible for half of the stuff in Germany, where he grew up that was him being nice and that was me not spelling the word correctly.😂
@@Kokuswolf Celsius is based on watery fahrenheit is based on the human body... 0 is around where you get frostbite and die, 100 is around where your body temp should be
Here is Switzerland, it’s also not uncommon to have to unstall shower walls. IE, a corner shower with no door and open to the rest of the bathroom. If tou don’t want the water to splash everywhere, you have to self install the door thing yourself, but not always. Depends.
Not accurate for cities. The at least 50 people in front of you, also wanting to get that apartment, are missing.
I still had a personal appointment here. City and cheap appartment. Only once Was a couple there at the same time in all 3 times I moved. I guess 360k inhabitants does count as a city
200. Love, Berlin.
Berlin is crap
Also, that stair is way to wide. Imagine actually being able to carry your furniture up there.
Honestly it’s mad even in Ireland the housing crisis isn’t even that bad 😭
A viewing ... without like 10 other people that also want the apartment?
Probably on the platte Land
Just 10? 😂
Well yeah.
You get an appointment to view (besichtigen) the apartment with the Vermieter. After 20 Minutes or so, the appointment is over, so others can come in.
@@shinichikudo7577 Ah interesting, where is this? In Berlin I've only got viewing appointments where there have been 20+ people present at the same time.
@@shaan7 Mostly in more rural areas.
What's important is, that the apartment is being rented by a Wohnungsgesellschaft.
Private people can be... Let's say... Strange.
The appartment has a FLOOR already installed?! ~Dutchman
You take the floors AND kitchen with you? WTF is wrong with you people? Not to be mean but that's one of the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard.
@@cLokki no the kitchen comes with the appartment but anything you put in has to come out inc floors. If your lucky you can make a deal to leave more in with the next person who rents the place but they tend to wait showing the appartment till you are out lately
Wait it comes with a preinstalled furnace and oven???
~Dutchman
@@aleccooks hahaha so dutch
😳 yo they have floor?
They made a law in France so that you have a least one light bulb per room. It’s mandatory. And it means you can live in the flat straight after having the keys.
What?
Do not know what France is that...
Wtf you mean what @@hmlqrt2716
In the UK it's common for rental properties to come fully furnished and have utilities included in the rent.
In Germany, sometimes you need to install the kitchen and even a toilet 😂
I guess it's true for the bigger cities. I was looking at apartments in Bedford recently, most offers were empty, sometimes even without the kitchen.
Is it though???? I live in UK and the only apartments I saw that have utilities included are flat shares.
Utilities are generally only included in HMOs and flatshares, in my experience.
I rented my last place. It was fully furnished (and the bed and two sofas were actually not half bad), but I had to arrange and pay for my own utilities separately. Except water - for some reason that was included on top of the rent at a flat rate.
😮
Also the landlord decides what kind of person they want living there so it's like you're in a big game of The Sims where the landlord/god says "some mothers and fathers here, some young librarians there"
In Poland when you are not paying your landlord, it's a crime for hom to forcefully throw you out. What a stupid country.
Wait, so in Germany, you get to pick who you want in your building as the landlord that's amazing.on my estate in England we have at least 5 drug dealers I know of, 3 prostitutes, 2 sex offenders (in my country we don't get told like in the US we only know because we see them offend) 20+ ASBO holders, 5 on tag (electronic tracker for criminals on probation) and 5 immigrant families.
@@jackforshaw4439In the US you can evict tenants who use or sell drugs in rental unit as knowing about it (esp in cases of dealing) and not doing so could put the landlord at liability of criminal charges (rare that actually happens tho). Most leases include a clause forbidding illicit activity making it actionable to submit a 20 day notice to remedy or quit if you find out your tenant is violating that clause. The same would be true if a tenant was prostituting out of a rental unit (aka seeing clients in the unit). The UK has similar laws regarding illegality of prostitution and drugs so are you not able to do anything?? Do you guys not have similar clauses in your leases?
Landlords in the comments, I am evicting you from my thread
@@jackforshaw4439Imagine hating immigrants so much, you equate them with criminals.
I love how he puts umlaut on every possible letter whenever the German guy speaks.😂😂
I find that very very offensive.
and annoying.
@@u.s.1974as a German: it's not offensive at all.
I dont find it offensive, it is annoyibg though, especially for people with reading disabilities. He could put it on some, not all.
@@babymetalenjoyer Na und, ich finde es nunmal beleidigend und vor allem nervend.
Germans are so efficient at getting every last dollar out of themselves lol 😅
Meanwhile upholding the American understanding of giving everyone less, means more for you! No thanks, I’d rather my lack of free healthcare for landlords that are less douchey and services that actually provide for me
@@ThePatriotsrule1 I have no idea what you are saying. I read it like 5x but you are all over the place. If you were trying to insult me, good try. If you were trying to agree with me, ok
Thats how Hitler rose to power
@@ThePatriotsrule1Read what you wrote again, slowly.
@ThePatriotsrule1
I don’t get how nobody understands what you said. You basically said “I’d rather have for profit healthcare that puts be into debt when I get sick than pay rent and everything else to a leaching landlord who puts all the responsibilities of renting out an apt on the renter”
That crazy in ireland fully furnished apartments even comes with toster and kettel😊
Not leaving a light fitting is a violation of electrical regulations. You dont have to leave a bulb but it must be left safe.
Yes but here in Germany where everything has to be written and double checked and a whole other bureoucracy b*****it, everyone leaves the appartment stripped from lights and leave the naked cables hanging. You are lucky if the previous monkey didnt cut too much of the electric cables so you can still install another fitting without calling an overly expensive electrician who by the way have the next free Termin for you in 4 weeks. This is Germany.
@@AleksandarM987 that is dangerous and annoying, And yes domestic electricians do overcharge even here, Luckily I am more than capable of doing anything myself.
It is safe, there is always a little plastic thing on that you need to unscrew first.It's not that difficult to put a new lamp in, almost everyone can do it.
@@KK-rj7ij Leaving exposed wires will have you in court.
@@dogwalker666 hm not sure about the law, but if you rent a flat in Germany it's not unusual to have to do the installation yourself. It makes sense as not everone has the same taste when it comes to lamps and you also might want to change them after a while. The metal parts of the wires are not "exposed", they are covered with a plastic thing that you can unscrew, like mentioned above. I had to do it a few times myself and it's not a big deal. Obviously you need to take the necessary precautions and have the right tools, but i'd say roughly every second person I know, knows how to do it.
Repeat after me and say it loud enough for all of the other people there to hear,
I've already licked all the doorknobs.
Spongebob: Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets
Surprised you don't have to buy your own doorknob.
This is why I still live with my parents
So wie alle U45 die ich so kenne 😂
@@glacyneyla-lifestyle zu teuer
My parents weren't narcissistic evils. I would love to still live there. And I'm 35.
@@richellediallo3628 hng. love to hear things like that.
I would’ve to be leaving with my parents at 35 years old with no job too
Exactly the same by the neighbors ; the Netherlands. I'm Dutch and my American friend is always shocked when I explain how renting in the Netherlands works haha 😅
European stupidy.
I legit thought he was joking. I was pretty shocked when I moved to the US and found that I needed to install my own AC and buy furniture. This is too much...
Europe has more renters protections though. My landlord has no limit on how much he can up my rent per year.
Same it took me 5000 euro to instal the basic necessities and utilities in the house and that is pretty cheap I had to buy things like a dryer good oven ect after I saved up some more money. In the end I spent about 7000 for everything I needed and also the installation costs of the flooring. I can take it al with me yes but the first time renting is just insane. I’ve got a 100 square meter appartement plus 10 square meter balcony in a good neighborhood for 650 euro a month since I’m on disability. They can’t increase the rent anymore so I’m not planning on going anywhere 😂.
Bold of you to assune that you can find rent in The Netherlands
And I thought American land lords were heartless
Damn Germany, one place the US got you beat, having furnished apartments. The only things missing from US apartments is usually a bed couch and TV. Everything else is included.
Sleeping in someone elses bed, matrass and linning ? 🤮 Also, I dislike to have to use everything else which has been used by someone else first, no matter if closets, cupboards, pans, plates and cuttlery and so on - it's something that makes me litteraly sick - reason why I deeply hate Hotels, they are disgusting 🤢🥶🤮
@@mbm8690 I just said apartment don’t come with a bed, tv, or couch. You have to buy those yourself.
Also you can wash kitchen appliances/utensils.
And not being able to use cupboards or or a countertop is just weird, you are weird for that, just wipe it down with cleaner. Spending 10 thousand dollars plus on furniture because someone else touched it doesn’t seem financially wise unless someone absolutely destroyed every piece of furniture in the building.
For me it’s negative bc I want to buy my own stuff which I like and don’t life in an apartment full of stuff I don’t want or like
When a Soviet khruschevka seems like a better place to live
Best part is $1800 is already high before all of those expenses.
1,800 euros not dollars
@@abenabecks Yeah, I just don't have a euro symbol on my keyboard.
That also its just cold rent lol...
1800 for 90 Qm is nothing. You will never find this in munich
Renting an apartment in Munich was more difficult than my master research
I had completely forgotten about the apartment I had for a month at Stuttgart University. Thankfully I had a kitchen. The itemised list of furniture, knives, forks and rules was pedantic, but I never worked out how TV was supposed to work. A colleague lent me a TV and I was informed that I had probably broken the law when I returned it at the end of the month. I think it is a bit like the BBC in the UK.
We fear the GEZ almost like the Russian mob. When we want to scare adults we talk about how the "GEZ Mann zwei Mal klopft".
Wait, how did you break the law by returning something that someone had lent you?
@@JR-rf9sq To watch TV you have to pay a TV licence. But this is regardless of whether you actually watch or not. If you are registered at the address they will come for your money. The only way to avoid it is if you aren't registered.. which is also illegal..
Indian apartments be like:We are just a huge empty space
Bei 1800 € kalt für 90 qm DG war ich bereits raus.
München, vielleicht?
@@starlingukMünchen wäre noch viel teurer für 90qm 😂
@@christinah.919Ne, München passt. 20€/m²
Whats that in dollars and square feet
Es tut mir leid, wie viele auf American?
This seems like a pain and I’m from another part of Europe.
It sounds more conplicated than it is. You don't HAVE too look for a gas and electricity provider, it's just usually cheaper if you do so and if you don't know about it, it would be recommended. Utilities are more like maintenance cost while the "cold" rent is for the apartment only. It's beneficial for renters when its split like that bc the rent can only be raised within a certain percentage of the "cold" rent, if it was luped all together it would be easier to make higher increases. Also the "warm" part of the rent can be influenzed by e.g. good recycling.
@@00nigirimeshiI dont get the electricity part. Do the Outlets just Not work?
@@00nigirimeshiyou really didn't make it sound any better. Lol
@@00nigirimeshithis is helpful thanks
@MrSh0terGamer I was just referring to the concept overall for people who hear it for the first time :)
Well at least America does renting right. The owner handles the necessities, since the one renting is already paying them as is
I just saw a comment saying a clause for leaving clothing on the floor is a reason to be evicted.. I'll take my upfront investment over stupidity
@@zimzimphI’ve never heard of that before. I’m In the US, the renter has a right to privacy from the landlord, and any visits by the landlord have to be justified and made with due notice.
As always with the US, keep in mind that there are a staggering number and variety of jurisdictions within the country, so there are going to be edge cases for pretty much anything, and that such cases are not indicative of the norm.
@@zimzimph😂😂😂. You believe that shit? My daughter leaves her clothes on the floor (she's 5) and we arent evicted. We will never be evicted. The landlord loves us.
All these shorts have taught me is that living in Germany sucks.
Germany:
-Humorless people
-Bad weather or climate (almost no snow. Only rain in winter)
-Too much LGBT
-Narrow streets
-Most of the cars are manuals
-Too many idiots in traffic
But good is:
-Low crime rate
-Money for jobless people
-Best freeways in the world with only a few speed limits
-Very good transportation
@@Busfreak4000Most of the cars are manuals is a pro.
Money for jobless people is a con.
@@michiel5160 1.) Manual cars are crap. Drive a manual in traffic jam! Your left leg will hurt! 2.) Money for jobless people is great. Imagine you lost your job. Money is good!
@@Busfreak4000 In a manual you at least don't have to sit on the brake all the time in a traffic jam.
To give money to people you have to steal it from others.
biscuit gung😂
...or you can do it like my Neighbours do and ignore Kehrwoche. Meaning i'm the one cleaning and mopping up the dirt of three weeks. 😂
These videos are making me very worried and paranoid about my impending move to Germany. Please 😢🥺 show me something Good
They have good bread 👍 You can wipe your tears with the bread
Well... 😶
That depends why you are coming? Are you coming for work or for studying or just want to live there or for what are you coming?
@@blibla181 for studies
@@valentin_din_romania then bread it is
Please! please! never use Fahrenheit anywhere in Europe, he does it to show Americanness but if you’re an American in Europe use Celsius
As if anyone here in Germany would let the "85 degrees" slide lol.
Global warming? lol
As a German I feel like my annual need for "äöü" is hit 😂
Glad I live in the Netherlands, renting in Germany seems like a lot of trouble for very little.
Funny how another comment said renting is the same in the Netherlands
@@simon-x9410 I live in the UK and saw a subtitled Dutch TV documentary about people who lived on some shithole Dutch social housing estate, equivalent to a UK council estate.
I was surprised to see that their attitudes, struggles and general outlook on life was absolutely the same as their British counterparts. Poor, hopeless, no prospects, the government abandoned them, and the local kids were feral and causing chaos. Everyone was also picking fights with migrants amd talking about how migrants had a better life than the locals.
It's the exact same in the UK and I guess some problems are the same everywhere.
It's not always that much trouble. Sometimes people will leave some or all the furniture behind and you pay one price to buy it, which is of course cheaper than buying completely new stuff. I've never seen anyone taking away the light bulbs too 😅
@@RutgerMwoanor even worse!
😂😂in NL you can't even find a flat to rent,why would you be unhappy about a country where you actually find a lot to rent
Here was me thinking renting was bad in the UK (absolutely isn't great)
Who the f*ck needs an a/c, you just need to be clever when lüften😂
It helps get humidity out of the apartment, but Germany doesn't get humid so you don't need it. I'm living in Florida now. It's cold enough to leave the windows open all the time, but furniture starts to smell like mildew because the doors are open and you aren't running the A/C. You have to program the computer to run the A/C at a warmer temperature an hour before you get home from work to keep the humidity down. You can get a dehumidifier, but it needs to run 24/7 and you need to empty the bucket 2 or 3 times while you are at work. You add up the electricity that a dehumidifier uses to be continuously ran and it is cheaper to run an A/C unit for an hour. Those buckets that dehumidify the air don't work.
@@jessicaely2521 thx
Crossed the line with that "replacing it is your responsibility", man's going off balcony lol.
Dude can make videos about what he finds weird in germany
And that's why, when searching for an apartment, I always search for an "Einbauküche"
What does that even mean...?
@@souya20 Einbauküche literally means built-in (eingebaute) kitchen (Küche).
@@Blabberflups thank you for the explanation :))
To those Who dont know, kehrwoche is that everyone has du clean the "Treppenhaus" or something similar
Kehrwoche is a regional specialty 😂🤣🤣😭😭😭
In france, it's not at all like that hire they very often include the kitchen and toilets and lights and usually they either pay you more in rent for electricity and water or they make you sign that you will pay your own electricity and/or water and every visiting is separate not everyone at once (mostly because the apartments are quite small)
When it isn’t a high demand you normally have separate visits, especially when somebody is still living there. But because the demand is very high in big cities and you can’t schedule 20 meetings, it is possible that you make one big viewing where it can be over 20 people and thats it… but it is like just in cities like Berlin….
Toilet is also included in Germany. For the Rest, i personally Like it this way. Because there are places who are furnished or have a kitchen. But the Landlord charges more for this and it's mostly ugly cheap stuff.
I'm searching fir an Appartment at the Moment and i viewed one where i Had to pay 50€ more, MONTHLY when i wanted them to Paint the Walls ...
You can Imagine was they Charge when there is a kitchen or other stuff already in the Appartment xx.
Kehrwoche... I learned something new. Thank you
“you get the walls and that’s it.
What is this guy talking about it's like 27 degrees tops outside 😂😂😂
Fahrenheit vs Celsius. 85 F is 29 C. So you're arguing over 2 degrees
It was joke. Of course I know he meant fahrenheit, 85c is pretty hot compared to 85f.
Treppenhouse just sounds like traphouse in a more cultured form
No Kitchen, blinds or light fixtures? Ok Germany, we can't be friends!
I believe I will stay here. I like my ceiling fan and AC
Umlauts everywhere...
Well that took the romance right out!
This is where you go take a massive dump in the bathroom to assert dominance and scare off the competition.
It's the same for most of Europe. Except for the kitchen... The cupboards are never missing where I'm from. The stove maybe but they don't force you to completely renovate the apartment lol
I don't how that's practical anyways
Right? Why would you as a landlord want a bunch of idiots draging big bulky equipment in and out of your building all the time? Why not set it up for the people then they just need to make it a home.
I'm a landlord in the US
You missed the part where half way through they ask of you want to sign now.
Crossing Germany off my list of places to live for a few years...😮
Still worth it for the healthcare and college
if i have to buy everything i'm going to leave with the pipes and wire too.
In the Netherlands you also need to fucking pay for a floor
This is a nightmare for someone like me with dyscalculia. I need someone to just give me a total of what I'll pay each month or a close estimate.
I'm not sure, but I think "Kehrwoche" is mainly only in Stuttgart
Basically all of Baden-Württemberg potentially but mainly in Swabia.
@@phosphordiester7545 okay, ja ich kenn es nur vom hören, da ich in einer Doppelhaushälfte wohne.
In 2000 I moved from northern Germany to south western Germany . 100 km south of Stuttgart. I first came in contact with this stupid rule . I had to clean the stairway every 4 weeks. No one wanted to change the date. So this clean weekend forced us to plan holiday with it.
After a few years we moved in our owne house. I told my wife not to buy an Appartement or only buy one with cleaning service (Hausmeister Service)
Many appartment buildings here in NRW have it as well. Either that or you are responsible for your Floor and one Set of stairs
It WOULD exist in my apartment complex too.
But we just opted to share the price of a cleaning service that does it for us every two weeks lol
This is actually something that shocked me as Scandinavian many years ago. Here renting apartments means all included (except for the bed & sofa of course).
I learned that it sucks to rent in Germany and didn't learn any of the meanings of the words
But you don't need the worda when you stay where you are eh 😂
This is the kinda guy that would lose his head if it wasnt attached to his body
Did....did he not rent in the U.S either? Aside for provided kitchens and sometime washer and dryer. It's the same thing.
Well this was the nail in the coffin fir Germany, I'm never going let alone moving there
As a german in germany that came from the uk this is so truue 😂😂
Can someone really post a comment about what it really is like getting an apartment, I'm planning to move to Germany for School next year, and I feel like I jumped in the deep end of the pool without researching anything.
It is exactly this in the video 👍
The video is kinda accurate, but you‘ll never be the only person wanting to get that apartment there. In cities, it can get pretty busy (30-50 people in worst case)
the video is quite accurate. No kitchen, furniture, maybe no pre-instaalled lights etc. Usually the previous tenant has installed a kitchen that you can buy from then, so you don't have to install one yourself.
There is cold rent = without utilities and warm rent = with utilities. BUT warm rent doesn't have to inlcude all utilities. It usually includes trash and water, but electricity & gas (for heating and/or warm water) can be excluded. Than you either trust a private company or the "Stadtwerke" (the public provider from that city) and get your own utiity contract. "Kehrwoche" (eng. cleaning week) means that the tenants of the house have to clean common spaces like the staircase taking turns each week. It's more common in the south of Germany. Small advice: check which type and speed of internet that is available prior to getting a contract with a provider. Some apartments only have DSL since internet infrastructure in Germany isn't that good.
One important terminology was used but not explained: "Kaltmiete" = "cold rent" is the rent including cleaning service and garbage collection, but without heat. The amount you actually pay per month is "Warmmiete" = "warm rent", that is "cold rent" plus a monthly instalment for heating and hot water. 1,800 is on the upper end of the spectrum though; you can get cheaper but it's hard to find.
Utilities like electricity, gas (if applicable), cable tv/phone/internet are separate and your own business.
If you are the type of person for that maybe you could consider joining a shared apartment (German Wohngemeinschaft - WG). Many students do that and this way you could just pay your part to the community and your flat mates care that the apartment bills get paid. You also don't have to buy kitchen stuff and other basic house hold items
Sounds like a great place to visit 1 in a lifetime
subleasing is totally the way to go. finding my own apartment in Berlin seemed impossible, but I pretty easily found a room to rent in a nice unit with a great roommate. I got a huge room, with ceilings and a balcony inside my room, plus access to kitchen and bathroom of course for €750 a month. that was like 6 years ago though
So you pay both them like rent and other rent using kitchen
And this is cheap? I pay 445€ in the City i live for 56m² i have all for myself, including a nice bathtubband a Garden i can use with one other Person who lives here. This is why i would never want to live in a Big City xx.
Shout out to our lovely cleaning guy!
Are there other countries where you don't have to pay for utilities? That's normal here in the U.S.
In Norway electric is often included in rent, water's always included. Renting out without a kitchen is unheard of.
@adeclutteredlife6555 very cool. Yeah in America (USA) that's rare. Water being included is more common and having a furnished kitchen is very common. But I've never had electric included and my current house had nothing furnished. I had a sink in the kitchen and that was it. I had to buy my stove, refrigerator and everything else
They forgot to add if you need to hire someone to do some fixings there you need to hire a 3 year certificate technische for a cost close to the first 6 monts
Totally accurate renting in Germany is a scam...
I got the leftovers from the deceased previous renter like the livingrooms chandelier, whole kitchen from the 70s and a CRT for free, no AC allowed though😂
I like the part where he says "here goes nothing" and nothing really came.
So it sounds like renting in Germany is a pain in the ass.
it's funny how he mixed german and english at the start, before even knowing if it's a foreigner or not
It would be nice if you flashed a quick definition on the screen whenever you do the German word gag. Just so that we monolinguals can follow along.
Just another reason I’m not moving to Germany unless I’m rich 😭
and if you're really rich, then you wouldn't want to
funny stuff!
here in canada kitchens ,bathrooms and lights are include! you have a damage/ cleaning fee when you move out if anything is missing! utilities are your responsibility. --water if your not in a house. most is just electricity if you dont want power just dont have power.
The Americaner 😂
Or just go and rent in Danemark.
Wait, do you not find your own utilities provider in the states? I feel that's a great route to being ripped off by your landlord
There’s one utility provider. So there is no “finding” involved. Just call the electric co. and have them turn on the electric to your unit.
@@donnavincent2004 Seriously? So you're just stuck with the price they charge? I thought American was all about the "free market"
@@EdgyShooter29 of the 50 states have deregulated energy which means there is competition on who provides energy to consumers.
So yes there is free market
In most states but monopolies in others which the federal government deems cheaper to have it that way.
Kehrwoche is cleaning.
My step sister went through this. It was rough
There are apartments that have a kitchen already installed in Germany and lights and stuff. You just need to ask for kne with a kitchen
Yeah and then they are more expensive…
@bingobongo1615 not with much. Because the other option is more expensive in my opinion. You have to buy a full damn kitchen set and appliances, put them in and when you leave, you have to call someone to take them down and you have to pay for them to be moved and installed to the new apartment and so on.
or you...crazy idea...take them out and install it yourself. Its not rocket surgery. All it takes is a Set of screwdrivers
@denzelpanther240 Sorry, not everyone has time for that. And you need at least two people in case you want to put up floating cabinets. I think you didn't do it once in your life. Plus, if you move, the kitchen size might be different, and in that situation, you will end up with a ill fitted kitchen set . It's too small for the new apartment or too big. Is not all easy peasy lemon squeezy as you try to imply . The appliance you have may also not work in the new place. So instead, you worry about all that crap you better get from the start an apartment that has the m f kitchen and appliances installed already.
@@loredanadincu4300depends. Mostly you have to pay more monthly. So it adds Up pretty fast, depending how Long you want to live there. While you can Just Buy a nice kitchen and Take it with you everytime you move.
It’s like this in France too!!
Atleast in uk we have draws inthe kitchen flooring as basic and we have to but the cooker microwave bedroom cupboards
You guys should do a sitcom together
As a german I can confirm that this is true
How does this even work to set your own utility provider?? Isn't the building already hooked up?
Well that definitely cleared all that up😂
My German professorin also said you have to provide your own taps for water.
Okay as a German I would never pay 1800 for rent and its "cold rent" which means you'll have to pay almost 500 more and that only for an apartment that's 90 Quadratmeter, at least it should be 100
Don't be so loud, respect the neighbours 🤫
wow, since I have family in Germany, and I allowed my Opa to watch this, his exact words were you have to be a dune cuff, to think that you should be a responsible for half of the stuff in Germany, where he grew up that was him being nice and that was me not spelling the word correctly.😂
dummkopf?
"Welp, I think I'm just gonna put a solar panel by the window and not permanently install anything anywhere!"
It's 85 and Germany man didn't get shocked 😲 or corrected
We... I learned about Fahrenheit. 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot. In Celsius, that 0 means the water is (mostly) freezing and 100 means you're dead.
@@Kokuswolf100 is boiling
@@hkgehts9061 So, you're not dead when at 100° Celsius? (This is the joke. This here is about jokes.)
@@Kokuswolf probably, but thats not why the system was made
@@Kokuswolf Celsius is based on watery fahrenheit is based on the human body... 0 is around where you get frostbite and die, 100 is around where your body temp should be
Here is Switzerland, it’s also not uncommon to have to unstall shower walls. IE, a corner shower with no door and open to the rest of the bathroom. If tou don’t want the water to splash everywhere, you have to self install the door thing yourself, but not always. Depends.
bro this is super accurate for Europeans bc they need to pay for light electricity and gas but also renting a home this is super true
Revenge of the üüümlauts! 😂😂😂
This seems a bit intimidating 😩
I so laughed at the previous tenants taking theur lights 😂😂😂
Umlauts are fun 😊
In Slovakia nearly all the time everything is included, even furniture. Occasionally furniture is not included but that's it.
The apartment is already built?! ~Italian