u/zaplinaki

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As most "expats" will know, HousingAnywhere has a huge scam problem. Since it is an English first platform that is primarily used by people moving from other countries, it has been a hotbed for scams and shitty companies (looking at you Habyt)

But at least their rating system used to be fair and transparent which gave a good picture of the landlord. Lo and behold, they have started doing automatic ratings. If you moved in successfully and you didnt answer the survey sent by HousingAnywhere to you on your email, they have put a 5 star rating for that landlord on your behalf.

This is obviously very problematic as it does not paint an accurate picture of real experiences.

Thus my PSA to everyone, when looking at a landlord on HousingAnywhere - check how many of their reviews are autorated and how many are user submitted. And as always, especially stay the fuck away from Habyt and Helen - they will scam their own mothers. Recently they've even gone on a cleanup spree and Trustpilot has removed legitimate user reviews left by real people (such as myself) because of German defamation laws. I even tried to fight it but to no avail. So please be sus of everything. Although this post was not triggered due to Habyt, I still cannot go a single day without making sure other people do not fall prey to them like I did.

This post was made because of another "co-living" company called Mietbase / 089 Apartments / Arivon Service gmbh - as another reviewer in the human reviews posted, it will all be good with them till things go wrong, then it'll be unanswered calls, texts, emails, etc.

Is this a local tradition? I've noticed for the past few days that lots of people are wearing white especially in the city center/near Marienplatz.

Yesterday I was cycling through the Munich Residence area and saw dozens of people sitting there in the lawn on tables/chairs - dressed in all white (white shirts/white trousers/white skirts) and I was so confused. It looked really nice though :)

I just moved today from Frankfurt. Some girl just went by, with like maybe her bf and some other friends. She was doing a mocking Indian dance singing ting ting ting ting then she said the N word with a hard R 3 times then the dance again. I was on the phone and I didn't understand what was happening. A second later I realized what just happened. Happened near Marienplatz.

That's kinda fucked