You all know the drill at this point.

Slim pickings this week. Only found 130 or so ads,

Sheets are a few days old. They have been stewing on my desktop for days. I blame the heat....darn you september heatwave

You all know the drill.

The Huurcommissie writes a book that anyone who wants to bust their apartment should keep as a reference.

The book is normally published in Dutch but Shane made English copies.

The guidelines will tell you things like:

*How to determine if your balcony counts as outdoor space. (page 38 of book a)

When the Huurcommissie considers your room contract temporary or permanent (Page 6 of book b)

If the old renovated apartment you live in qualifies for COROP (page 42 of book a)

What to do if your apartment is not legally split and has no WOZ (page 43 of book a)

How to know if the missing plaster on your wall counts as a defect (page 31 of book c)

Fulfil your destiny and become a true rent busting master of the Huurcommissie by studying these books*

These are the links to the books.

a) Huurcommissie book on how to bust Independent living spaces https://pdfhost.io/v/zUrJCfSWa_Huurcommissie_policy_book_on_busting_independent_living_spaces_2023

b) Huurcommissie guidelines on how to bust

The exiled edition: Cannot be posted directly onto the subreddit without admin access. The housingbotNL updates more frequently but for those of you who miss the original format, enjoy!

Link to sheets here https://1drv.ms/x/s!AhS9UiEeuDTxgoIEP2va6-yLumgf7w?e=Dscr2l

Sorry for the delay. This thing with the ban fucked up my weekend. Funda hotsheets dated from August 24. Feel free to repost this on Reddit. You cannot post the onedrive link there as Reddit requires that the mod approves links to onedrive on the subreddit. Links to feddit are allowed though

The Huurcommissie has books/guidelines on what a constitutes a defect. Every year this book is updated and the changes are outlined. The books are always published only in Dutch. This translated copy should make it more accessible to the non-dutch renters who want to know more about what classification their defects are. Class A defects can get up to an 80% temp reduction on the rent price Class B defects can get up to an 70% temp reduction on the rent price Class C defects can get up to an 60% temp reduction on the rent price

Hi guys To those of you are walking in both worlds (feddit and reddit), I wanted to ask if you know ways to get someone nominated to a mod position on my now modless subreddit. From what I read, the subreddit needs to be modless for 30 days before someone can take it over. Does anyone have experience with this?

Probably because of the big cookie-banner (which is not allowed in the Netherlands with current privacy laws). If you use an ad blocker you just see a big beige screen.

Please just don't track users, anonymise your analytics. The Dutch AP has a PDF guide on that.

Amsterdam: ViaDaan offering this 39sqm + balcony MIGHT come in at 726 euro. The place is missing an EL (God knows what the Landlord will pay to get this place above the libgrens). Assumes a renovation cost of 50,000 euro + 4 lux points. Asking price is 2750 incl. Viewing 31st Aug at 10am

So this is an article I put up on the r/rentbusters about Marcel van Hooijdonk: a notorious slum landlord based in Breda Marcel owns many properties in NL according to Kadaster and has built a massive rental empire in Utrecht and Breda of about 320 buildings and apartments. A complete list can be found here

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AhS9UiEeuDTxgoIAwQHecvMJBUoOoQ?e=rhimIg

Unfortunately Marcel has not behaved as a good landlord should. He rents to many students through a series of companies with dubious/no kvk registration including VanderHuizen and University Housing. If you are a student and you live in Utrecht, you are likely to come across some of his housing

MvH has been accused of intimidating, threatening and scamming tenants since 2015.

MvH goes to extreme lengths to hide his face from the media. When this was posted to the main subreddit, Reddit deleted it very fast and banned me from the website, permanently. It might be that Reddit was overzealous with its admin staff, so

Hi All!

My landlord has been hinting that she wants to start renovations to her shop below our apartment after bouwvak. I've seen her with an architect reviewing plans, so I suspect that in another 6 months renovations will start.

She has said that her daughter wants her to move into our apartment during construction. But I do wonder if there is any legal standing to make a decision like that.

We are on a permanent contract and I don't believe that the renovation would be an urgent one which could force us out as I understand.

What are the possibilities how my landlord to cancel our contract?

Senate has started processing the Rental Contracts for Independent Time Act (Wet vaste huurcontracten).

Particularly BBB (the Farmer's party) as a newcomer is critical. The D66 fraction in senate stands by their colleagues in parliament that rooms with shared essential facilities should also be subject to this act.

VVD remains critical, but CDA seems to shift position. This is relevant as a majority can likely only be reached if CDA agrees.

Kamerstukken I 2022/23, 36195, nr. B

I've been working for a while on a UserScript for adding some useful info onto housing listings in NL.

Thus far I've added the energy label from eponline to pararius + funda.

I'm still working on the following few goals:

1. Add karmernet
2. Add better parsing for addresses, and better matching said addresses on eponline (janky addresses cause issues, and I haven't yet implemented going to page 2, 3, etc of eponline when possible)
3. Add in woz value integration
4. Add in points calculator (maybe with some interactive buttons or something on the page to select bathroom/kitchen quality, I dunno)
5. Put the results onto the listing page not just the search pages.
6. Figure why it doesn't work nicely on kiwi browser (mobile browser)

Feel free to install a UserScript extension manager and install it yourself. I'm using tampermonkey for dev, but it should work in greasemonkey, tampermonkey, and violentmonkey.

If you find an address that it doesn't manage to enrich, please drop a comm

Basically in the title. I moved out with effect on 17/7/2023 after returning the keys to the landlord. She is refusing the refund of my deposit as she stated that the mattress has a stain under the matress protector. I only discovered of the stain when I moved in and as such retained the protector but didn't communicate this as I thought she was aware of this. Do I have any recourse if she refuses repaying my deposit? Also you can buy a whole bed from ikea for way less than the deposit due, should such claw backs contain a element of reasonability.

Update 24/7/23: Thanks for all the assistance. The landlord refunded my deposit this afternoon in full.

I finally fixed the Funda scraper so I should have those ads tomorrow.

The hotsheets for Kamernet are a list of about 500 or more ads published from the last week on Kamernet. Where applicable, the onzelfstandige was applied to the data that the ad contained to give an estimate of the max legal rent price. This can sometimes differ massively from the asking rent price. In these cases, the landlord is likely asking over the limit. Dont avoid these properties like every does: GO FOR THEM.

Once you sign the contract, you can apply to the Huurcommissie to get the rent price reduced by hundreds of euro. This process is relatively simple but takes a few months. In the meantime you pay your rent but if the calculation is correct, you will get anything you over paid back.

Some of the estimates are less than ideal with their accuracy(Row is colored orange): Estimates of apartments with co-signed tenants ARE NOT accurate as these are independent contracts and require a different calculator to