Me: Mom, can we please have Huurcommissie?
Mom: No, we have Huurcommissie at home.
Huurcommissie at home: landlord fined for charging ‘too little’ in rent
What the actual fuck
The argument is: if your rent is that cheap, you probably have a side deal going on (like extra pay or work for housing) to avoid taxes and/or social security contributions.
I’m not saying the present system is great, I’m just explaining it and unfortunately some people indeed try “save” taxes that way.
I’m not sure this is exactly the argument, I understood it as: “You rent out so cheap you don’t want to make a profit, and if you don’t want to make a profit you can’t make deductions in relation to your properties.” Which I don’t find great either.
Mh, I don’t think this only affects deductions. Otherwise people could just waive their right do deduct costs related to the housing units discussed in the article. I don’t think this would make a huge difference, i.e. I don’t think the deductible costs are that significant.
However, if you don’t pay your janitor or your nanny properly, but provide them with cheap housing instead, you can (illegally) save a lot of money.
Anyway, that’s my guess, but I’m very open to new knowledge. :)
I looked into it a bit more and seems like we are both somewhat right: https://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/guenstige-jetzt-jagt-ihn-das-finanzamt-das-ist-ein-unding-preise-muenchen-vermieter-65-verlangt-zu-zr-91597287.html
Ah this is why you need you to pay your monthly minimum rent insurance.
95€ temporarily until the defects are fixed. Then the 20qm room is worth a rent of 477€.
The Huurcommissie scored the appointment on a point scale, and determined the reasonable rental price should have been 476.85 euros per month. The tribunal then noted that the tenant was unable to lock their own bedroom. Additionally, the wood-framed kitchen skylight had a 10 millimeter crack in it, causing drafts, and the toilet tank in a shared bathroom was leaking.
The tribunal further lowered the rent to 95.37 euros until the damage is fixed, saying it could find no evidence the landlord actually tried to fix the problems. This can gradually increase as repairs are carried out to the maximum of just under 477 euros. The reduction was also backdated to September 1 from the ruling, which was filed at the end of December and published more recently. As a result, the landlord must repay the overpaid rent in the intervening months.
Still, €477 to live on Keizeersgracht, not to mention the backpay. I’m needing a poo just thinking about it.
And he owes around 5k€ in back rent! That is proper justice for once.
NYC landlords renting out literal rat nests for $4000 reading this
Why did anyone pay, and keep paying, 1,950 or 1,200 euros for such a shitty rooms in the first place?
The process of getting house/room in many areas in the Netherlands is full of bureaucracy. We can’t simply get a place and move there straight away. We need to register with the local councils and the requirements and regulations each local councils vary between places. Many times, it becomes catch-22 situation, e.g. you need to already have a job, but to get a job you need to register. That’s why some people are desperate enough that they move to shitty places.
Holy shit can I rent it
For €95 a month I would happily make some of my own little repairs and temporary fixes lol
But then the price goes up again :( It’s only €95 because of the problems in the room. When fixed it goes to about €470, which is still all right I guess for that location in Amsterdam.
You love to see it. The landlord in question is a notorious piece of shit here.
Is he? Who is it? Never heard of an infamous landlord in Amsterdam.
It’s Cees van Leeuwen. Someone went into a lot of detail about him in this reddit post:
And his bullshit has been covered in the news before:
God damn that was a depressing read.
Right? Dude is ridiculous.
