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Post: Not careless about important matters

I'm a simple emigrant, but not careless about important matters

4/17/2019, 2:21:03 PM

One of them is housing rental. When I moved, I didn't yet know how long I would stay here, so I signed my first apartment rental contract for six months. Since it was a sublease (that is, the real contract was with the girl who lived here before me, and with her we only had one paper with the arrangements and our signatures), extending it to a year wasn't difficult β€” I simply wrote to her on Facebook that I would stay on. And at the same time, that is, more than six months before the end of the period, I should already write to the actual owner that I would like to sign a new contract. In housing matters it's generally better to be on the safe side than end up on the street, and in Germany all the more so. Here, finding good apartments considering price/quality is quite difficult: the city is popular and even at inflated prices there is always demand. The main services where you can search for apartments or just see how much they cost: immobilienscout24.de and immowelt.de, and I also looked at Facebook groups (fb.com/groups/663712283817863/ and fb.com/groups/108075709886928/), but mostly there people look for roommates or rent out rooms, not whole apartments. But I found my option there :) #useful