Tips for renting an apartment
Learn about the most common motifs of the owner:
Your prospective landlord wants a rule:
- Secure payment of rent
- As possible, no short-term tenants change
- That his property is not damaged
- That he finds a sympathetic tenant
- That the tenant keeps to the house rules, so does not cause trouble.
If an owner once made a bad experience with a tenant, he may tend to accept certain candidates not from the beginning. This particularly plays a role in private companies. Owners of housing associations are more likely to decide a purely objective way and begin to send you an application form, which you should fill it. Be prepared to so.
Prepare yourself for the information needs of the landlord:
Thus, you can expect:
- The landlord wants to review your credit situation based on income qualifications or directly by contacting your employer
- You keep a copy of your employment ready and / or phone number. Your company or your boss and tell your employer in advance about your housing search and possible calls from prospective landlords.
- The landlord wants to know where you currently still live and who is their landlord to find out from your current landlord if you have paid the rent or whether there are rent arrears
- Even if your current landlord is unaware of your relocation plans, you should check their current owner before sharing their contact numbers to the potential new owner and tell him your moving plans. Ask your landlord when your potential new owner can contact him and if you can pass on his phone number or e-mail address to the potential new owner.
Alternative:
Verify with your writing from your current landlord that you have your
property to rent is always paid correctly. This confirmation, you can easily send the short term the new potential owner.
Or, if your landlord is not reachable:
and you have your rent paid by direct debit or by standing order, you can also submit copies of such contracts to the new owner. Where applicable you confirmed your bank were also charged, in which period the sums.