Rentbusters

I have posted a list of 600 ads from Kamernet that were scraped this week

They have been colour-coded according to how sure one can be about the estimated max legal rent price. Unfortunately the people who post these ads leave out some essential information necessary to do a reasonably accurate calculation: the rows of these will be highlighted in whitish-yellow.

The rows that are light green have all the necessary information to do the calculation.

Where the difference between asking price and the max legal rent price or the price/sqm is very large/medium/small these columns will highlighted in red, yellow,green and blue depending on severity.

If you see many unknowns in terms of number of roommates, bathroom, kitchen, total space etc, take the calculation with a pinch of salt as I made major assumptions in these cases.

Please tell me if there are any bugs/outrageous values.

If I send a letter to my landlord asking for my deposit back since it has been a month since our contract ended, is it relevant to mention that we have not settled the costs for utilities. I sent him an instant message about it the day after the last day of our contract, and I constantly ask for updates, and I get a weekly response that “it is taking longer than they expected”. Is it my responsibility and I won’t get my deposit back until they handle it?

Minister De Jonge has send a letter to parliament this afternoon about plans to change the Service Costs Decree (Besluit servicekosten) and make it limited in nature

That would mean no other service costs are allowed than those that are mentioned on the annex to the Service Costs Decree. Furthermore, De Jonge suggests certain service costs can be maximized by ministerial decree.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2023/07/04/kamerbrief-over-voortgang-van-de-herziening-van-het-besluit-servicekosten

As plans often seem to 'change' into definitive legislation online on a forum like this before it actually passes parliament and senate, I would like to stress these are just plans.

Also, as I often remark, be aware that it's impossible to oversee all relevant facts on a forum like this and in part because of that, any risk associated with acting upon what I mention stays with those who read the above.

A judgment was published today, in which a subdistrict court judge ruled that a tenant was allowed to pay a lower rental price, because the house gets too hot. The primary reason is the inability of the tenant to shield sunlight from entering the house.

In this case, yhe rental company apparently was located in Germany. From a procedural point of view, it might be interesting to know that a rental agreement that is established between a tenant living in The Netherlands and a company/landlord located in another EU member state is subject to Dutch law and a Dutch court has jurisdictio

The rental company argued that it was not possible to make adjustments to the house without prior consent from the VvE. Although the judge acknowledged that, the judge also mentioned that the tenant is not in a position to change the opinion of the VvE. The rental company as a member of the VvE is.

The tenant took a wise step and approached a technical expert company that assessed the problem and wrote a report. That cost the tenant €2000, but the judge considered reimbursed those costs by sentencing the rental company to pay for the report.

The judge decided that the rental price should be reduced with 10% for as long as the rental company does not resolve the defect.

https://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBGEL:2023:3403

Personally speaking, I'll probably be commenting mostly in this community and https://feddit.nl/c/juridisch depending on the whole API situation.

If you want to follow the community, it's probably easiest to do so by RSS. Several clients are under development, like https://wefwef.app/ which works surprisingly well considering it's alpha status.

Looking forward to continue commenting on rental situations in The Netherlands, both in Dutch and in English.