I’m currently renting an apartment in Centrum Den Bosch with my friend. We’re both international students and our contract mentions indefinite but subject to minimum 12 months.
We’re currently paying €1850 plus service and utilities. The apartment is beautiful. It’s an attic apartment with two floors. One bedroom on each floor with a small terras on the upper level. On paper the house is 105m2 but during our calculations we found that most of the upper level doesn’t count because half the space is marked as landing area in the floor plan and the sides of the bedroom don’t count since they have less than 2m clearance. There’s similar low clearance area in the living room as well and also the lower level bedroom. So we come out to 75-80m2.
The energy label is E and besides that we have a microwave and dishwasher etc. Our current calculation lands at 157 points and the most liberal calculation I had went only up to 183 points, by including all the floor area (105m2). Woz is 424k.
So the rent should be around 1000-1200 based on final points.
On the 1st of Oct, I contacted my landlord after paying the rent and casually asked her for a WWS report. She instantly called me and was very aggressive and confrontational. I didn’t mention rent and stuck to my one demand: the law says you have to provide me with a wws report at the signing of the contract and I am just asking to see the report. She deflected and denied a lot but in the end said she’ll get a report from the huurcomissie.
A few hours later, she texts me again and said she wants to meet with me next week. I unfortunately agreed before I realized I could just decline the meeting.
I don’t know what to do. On one hand she’d have kept charging me the extra high rent if we didn’t catch her and I shouldn’t negotiate or sympathize with her. But on the other hand, looking at the posts in this subreddit, I am a little scared of retaliation and just having my time wasted in perpetual court hearings. And the money for the lawyers.
She’s not the type of woman who’ll just accept things without putting up a fight. She’ll either try her best to evict us or make our life hell. The reduced rent will genuinely improve my life tho. I am currently managing a very demanding course load and have a job on the side to make ends meet. If I get the reduction then I can work reduced hours and make time for other social activities on campus.
Hi everyone! I got offered a rental studio by roofz.eu but there are some worrying aspects about it. Im hoping someone has used them before and know they are legit?
- They dont do viewings, its an online playform only.
- They have no online presence, just 1 review on trustpilot.
- found some old reddit posts but nobody had a conclusive answer.
Please if you have dealt with them before let them know if they are legit, they gave 24h to answer.