r/Rentbusters

Hello all,

I'm living with my GF in a H2S apartment since this May and thus we still have about 8 months left of our contract. However, our neighbors have been an absolute nightmare. Screaming and throwing things (they're likely a couple) literally at times such as 2, 3, 4, 5 AM. No stopping them. We called the police more than a couple times, and been in constant dialogue with H2S about this. About a week ago, for some fucking reason, I came home from work and my door was barricaded with furniture that was thrown out by these neighbors, because apparently they had something against the guy who lived in our apartment before us and they thought he was still living there.

Anyways, needless to say it's a nightmare to live here. However, H2S say they are not able to do anything about our neighbors besides "talk to them", but bear in mind after the police we sent to their door talked with them they just continued the way they were after the police left. That's why we want to be able to cancel the contract early and move, because we cannot live like this. We are in this sense being nice, because it seems more fair that our neighbors should move than us, especially considering they are constantly breaking rules such as being quiet in the night-time, occupying shared living areas with objects and even having family/friends SLEEPING IN THE COMMON AREAS (police was called to stop it, not by us that time).

When we ask H2S about if this is possible, they say they will "likely" charge a termination fee, considering we have minimum 12 month contract. First of all they are not giving any clear idea what this would be, as in, like one month's rent or 8 month's rent? And further, they also told us "it would not be fair to charge you a termination fee", but this was over phone, and when I told them that they said this earlier, they said just "well we still need to charge you the termination fee".

We are still contacting police whenever they keep fighting and waking us up in the middle of the night, and we're expecting to get free legal help in the near future through Juridisch Loket, but we still have no guarantees we can get out of this.

Just wondering if anyone know anything about cases like this, how this plays out legally, and what opportunities we have. Thanks in advance.

My friend has lived in an apartment in The Hague for a couple of years now and has an indefinite rental contract.

About three weeks ago, a pipe broke under her bathroom sink but she managed to turn the water off before it flooded the whole place. There was no water damage but she couldn’t figure out how to fix the sink herself so she messaged the agency managing the property asking them to send a plumber or to let her hire someone and pay that much less for the next invoice. They ignored all her emails for two weeks and finally said they’d contact and send someone. That hasn’t happened yet.

They did contact her last Friday though, by phone. During the call, they informed her that the owner was planning to renovate the entire building so she’d have to move out. They, however, had no timeline for when it’d happen when she asked for one. I’m assuming that they’re withholding helping with the sink issue to make living there annoying for her and push her to move out asap.

This whole situation doesn’t seem right to me at all. I’ve already told my friend to email the agency and demand that they put everything they said during the call in writing, but I’m wondering if any of you know what her right are in this situation, especially with how vague they are about the timeline. I wouldn’t want her to stay in that apartment long term anyway since the agency and owner seem…not great, but I don’t want her to be stressed about having to move out urgently, with the housing market being what it is.

Thank you so much in advance, I appreciate any advice or thoughts you have on this!

my landlord who is not european and lives outside of europe registered his entire family at my address, they did not live here, they received pension and other subsidies despite being extremely rich and not living here. they got deregistered in less than 5 weeks by the gemeente

No, thats not anything dirty, though there will be dirt involved for me.

Hi My name is Shane

Almost exactly 10 years ago, I went around the world by land and boat from the Netherlands and visited Auckland for a few days. The trip was planned to be a full circumnavigation of the Earth without flying and like any good adventure, I planned to leave a few momentos in the places I visited.

I am a big geography geek and one of the things I wanted to do when I traveled was visit two antipodes. An antipode is a point on the exact opposite sides of the world to one another. An example is the north pole and south pole.

The issue is that there are not a whole lot of points on earth that have solid ground at two antipodes. (see maps). The other issue was that when I started the trip, I had no clue where I would go or when or if I would cross an antipode of a point or not. even though I did cross an antipode or two, it was not deliberate as when I crossed the pode 6 months before, I had no idea that I was crossing a pode at that time.

So I came up with an idea to make a deliberate Pode in New Zealand (which is antipodal to Spain) and then go visit the antipode when I got back to Europe. Sadly shit happened when I got home and I kept postponing the trip to Spain until this year.

When I visited Auckland I had two Dogtags with me, One I planted in a crevaas in a tree at the back (north side) of the Grafton United Cricket clubhouse in Victoria park next to Fanshawe Street. (I think it was the one at the north west corner of the building next to a bench, crevass where the tree branches out, last verified there in December 2017) The second I took back to Europe to place on a Farm outside of Ronda, Malaga, Spain. I know the exact location I need to plan the other one but why not go a little further

https://preview.redd.it/t267yfvgzjih1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=a94d06f9804999315be968e32d0ca47717a050c4

Right now I am cycling from Netherlands to Spain to view a total eclipse (of the earth - RIP Bonnie Tyler).

My bike! Bastard derailleur is giving me trouble

My goal is:

1. see the August 12 ecilpse

2. Visit my antipode

3. Bury the second dogtag (and my bike if it makes it) there

4. make an Earth Sandwich with someone in Auckland

An Earth Sandwich is placing two slices of bread at podal points and thereby make the largest sandwich in the world. Its not the first time it has been done but I am gonna hopefully be the first to place two dogtags and a rusty old recumbent bike at two antipodes.

https://preview.redd.it/3nnbzwgi2kih1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e41c22e5bfd869907413a8616acb7b7a8c12e29

Is there anyone in Auckland who has a slice of bread (brown preferred) and who lives close to Victoria park who wants to join in?

If anyone could also check if the dogtag is still there?

I thinks its the tree on the right...

I will post updates as I get closer to Ronda...everyone is free to join.

I'm an idiot. I know that… so no need to tell me this again…

I rented my house to a family and they had a baby. They saw my house listing online, arranged a viewing said they had nowhere else to go. They had a late flight according to them, and they liked the house, they wanted to offer some cash, but I saw a small baby and said that it’s fine and they can stay, and then later we can sign they lease. I felt sorry for them. I let them move in first…

They were gone in a week… But that’s not the most terrifying part…

They trashed the place. Like there are holes in the walls, filth everywhere, broken plumbing, smashed toilet... Furniture I left there? Destroyed. They took off in the middle of the night and no forwarding address. No way to find them…

I filed a police report. They said it's a civil matter and my insurance said they won't cover tenant damage. I'm stuck with a wrecked house and no money to fix it

A realtor told me a normal sale would take months. I'd have to put in thousands just to make it showable. I don't have that money. I barely have anything…

I saw an ad for eazyhousesale and they actually say they buy houses with damage

Is this for real? Will they actually buy a house that looks like this?

I'm desperate. I need to sell this place and move on. Anyone dealt with after a tenant disaster? Please tell me if this is legit or another nightmare waiting to happen…

Hello all,

I started a case to lower rent based on points from Oct 2025. In Feb 2026 the verdict came in and my rent was lowered from 1217 to 489 (81 points). As no energy label was registered, the 'pre 1976' build year was used for points.

Landlord appealed and there was a hearing on 1 April. Appealed on several points but the energy label is the one I want to ask about here:

- they registered label B on 28 Oct (so after the 'peildatum' of 1 Oct)

- they didn't send anyone to the house, but they sent people to our upstairs neighbors (slightly larger space) to register energy labels

- the label B was based on 41.5 sqm whereas the huurcommissie said in their verdict the space is 37 sqm

- they sent a guy for 'CV maintenance' who conveniently brought a sticker with B on it :D

Against our expectations the huurcommissie allowed this label B to be included in the point count.

On 11 Aug 2026 the verdict of the appeal came in at 126 points increasing the rent to 826 euro.

About the appeal and verdict:

- Hoge Raad said in 2023 that labels can be taken into account even if registered after peildatum

- we had argued that Wet Betaalbare Huur from 2024 says that they cannot, and that the label can't be correct as no one came to inspect for it and it's based on an incorrect amount of sqm

Final verdict says: the huurcommissie deviates from their own rules and, as the points from label have significant impact on the rent for as long as the tenant stays there, the energy label is included. They even say they're not sure the Hoge Raad ruling still applies.

Questions I have:

- to me this seems worth appealing. What do you think? This would be appeal within 8 weeks at a judge, no longer at the huurcommissie.

- for those who have appealed, how long does this process take and what did it cost you?

- wet betaalbare huur has a 1 year grace period after July 2024 for landlords to get a points count and energy label registered. What's the point of this if the label will still be included after this grace period?

Apologies for the long post. I did my best to include relevant details and keep it concise. Thank you in advance!

I’ve been seeing a lot of people say “once you hit 10 doors you can retire.” Some treat it like a hard rule, others say it’s way more complicated and depends on a bunch of factors.

From what I’ve gathered, it seems to come down to things like whether the properties still have mortgages or are mostly paid off, how strong the actual cash flow is after all the real-world expenses, the market you’re in, and how much income you personally need to live on. Self-managing versus hiring a property manager also seems to change the picture a lot for people.

I’m still trying to figure out what “enough” actually looks like in practice.

• How do you personally think about the number of doors needed for retirement or financial freedom?

• What’s been more important for you — nr of door count, cash flow quality, or getting properties paid off?

• Anyone already at a point where their rentals cover (or almost cover) their living expenses? What does that look like day-to-day, and how many doors got you there?

• Any big surprises or lessons that changed how you view the “10 doors” idea?

Hi! I am a tenant of this landlord, a company who manage many apartments across Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and who knows more.

Just doing this because the guys are very sloppy and careless, which turned out to be in our favour for once, as me and my flatmate got a positive verdict from the Huurcommissie due to some contradictions in the contract.

They really look like they dont know what they are doing. They didnt even appealed to the ruling because they thought it wasnt “valid”. So yeah, we actually managed to lower our rent quite a lot, even despite being technically in the free market.
I bet we are not the only one with such defective contracts.

I always knew it was a wealthy company with more than one property, but just recently Ive learned they may have up to 100 apartments for rent, so I thought they deserve a little advertisement.

We are terminating a rental agreement under the name of my roommate as he will leave and starting a new one under my name. The rent increase is super high - 21%. Is it allowed? Considering the new points system, the house has more than 200 points - free market. New rent (without other costs) will be 2100. Can I still negotiate and send a proposal of increase of 10% this year and 10% in the next adjustment period?