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Is my landlord being illegal?
I have been renting a flat since June and have a contract until next June.
I've managed to find a better place in the meantime, and am currently in the process of trying to find someone to t… Hi all,
I have been renting a flat since June and have a contract until next June.
I've managed to find a better place in the meantime, and am currently in the process of trying to find someone to take over my lease, and it's proving a little difficult as the room is absurdly expensive for what it is. I took it because at the time I was in an insanely desperate situation and had to find some sort of accomodation but now that I can assess it with a clearer head I realise the set-up is completely absurd.
I'm wondering if, for the sake of myself and my housemate, and any future tenant, it's worth going to the Mieterverein. I'm unsure how long the process would take and if it's even possible to change anything - hence why I'm turning to Reddit for advice.
Here are a few of the things I think the landlord is doing which are shady:
The rent is 860 p/m, all bills (including electricity and wifi) are included.
The room is 18sqm and the entire apartment is 44.4sqm. The building was built in the 60s.
The base rent is 395€, utilities are 159€, electricity and internet 95€. He's charged also 156€ per month for furniture and a monthly sublease surcharge of 55€.
The furniture consists of several used Ikea pieces - about 6 items in total in the bedroom and the kitchen has also pots, pans, etc.
I don't pay the rent into his bank account - I pay it into a company's bank account. Upon Googling, it appears the company is solely comprised of him.
I know for a fact everyone else in the building pays a warm rent in the 400s. Their apartments are also furnished.
Let me know if I have any leg to stand on here, or if I'm being completely delusional. Every time I've listed the apartment I've received a barrage of hate comments about the price so I'm trying to action it to see if I can make the situation better for anyone involved.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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