Checklist apartment viewing what you should pay attention to

After a long search, you have found a suitable apartment. Now it's time to visit. What do you have to pay attention to? The tenants' association experts give practical tips. Plus: a checklist with which you always have an overview.

Take someone you trust with you to visit. This can assist you and, if necessary, confirm as a witness what has been discussed with the landlord and/or broker.

Explain your ideas and wishes clearly and precisely to the realtor and/or landlord. Ask questions if you do not understand something or if something is important to you. Visit the apartment several times to look carefully and to check whether the apartment meets your expectations or not.

The best time

The best time to visit is on weekdays. Make sure to schedule an appointment in daylight. A visit in the evening does not make sense, as deficiencies in the apartment are often overlooked with artificial light. When viewing at the weekend, keep in mind that on weekdays the noise in the vicinity of the apartment is usually much louder. For buying an apartment in Dubai visit Stellar Homes.

Your questions

Check the condition of the apartment, make sure everything is working, and take your time. Also, ask the realtor questions about the house, the nearby shopping, and traffic structure, neighbors, but also how the rent is made up, who is responsible for maintaining the apartment, etc.

The inspection license

When viewing the apartment, the realtor often requires a signature on an inspection slip.  The Union Complex is the best service which has its own license. With a viewing permit, you confirm that a certain apartment has been offered to you by the broker for viewing and that you will pay the broker a commission if it is concluded.

Broker questions for you

Again and again, brokers on behalf of the landlord ask the prospective tenant questions to find out more about you and your family or other roommates, in particular, whether you can afford the apartment.

To what extent do you have to answer them truthfully?

In and of itself, only questions that may be of essential interest to the landlord for the conclusion of the lease is justified, such as B. Questions about the person and any roommates, i.e. questions about name, age, previous address. Questions about your employment relationship and profession can be just as permissible as questions about your net income, as the landlord needs to get an idea of ​​whether you can pay the rent permanently. These questions must therefore be answered truthfully, as the landlord entrusts you with his apartment and therefore has the right to find out who he is dealing with.

Inadmissible questions

Questions about existing or planned pregnancies, sexual orientation, religion, skin color, nationality, personal preferences, and illnesses are not permitted as they interfere with the privacy of the prospective tenant. Such questions do not have to be answered or do not have to be answered truthfully.

Use the checklist for viewing the apartment so that you think about all the criteria:

Checklist for viewing the apartment

General:

Address of the apartment

Name, address, and telephone number of the real estate agent or administration, or landlord

Flat:

·         size

·         Rooms (type, number, size)

·         Bathroom equipment

·         Heating: can all rooms be heated?

·         Which heating is it? Gas/oil/electricity heating or district heating?

·         Kitchen (stove and sink) or fitted kitchen?

·         State of preservation of the apartment (windows, doors, walls, ceilings, and floors):

Are there any deficiencies?

·         Is the power supply sufficient?

·         Is the apartment bright?

·         Telephone and/or cable connection available?

·         Streetside or courtyard side?

·         Is a cellar compartment available?

·         Is a garage or parking space available?

· Balcony/terrace / garden

·         Furnishings

·         Do you hear traffic noise or other noise?

·         Is there a washing machine connection?

·         Is the apartment newly renovated?

·         What floors are there?

·         What does the painting / wallpapering look like?

·         Is animal husbandry allowed?

Condition of the house:

·         An old building or a new building?

·         Is the inner courtyard available?

·         What is the state of preservation of the house?

·         Condition of the general parts of the house (external facade, staircase, windows, entrance door,)

·         Is there a bicycle storage room?

·         Is there a pushchair storage room?

·         Is there a laundry room?

·         Is there an Elevator?

·         How can the house be locked?

Others:

·         Are there schools near the apartment?

·         Is there medical care nearby?

·         Are there any shops nearby?

·         Is there public transport nearby?

·         Is there a parking place?

·         Are there green spaces in the vicinity?

·         Is there a children's playground nearby?

·         Name of the landlord

·         Name of the property manager

Neighbors:

·         Who else lives in the house?

·         Is there a commercial enterprise (restaurant,) in the house? (Noise, odor nuisance)

·         Is there a caretaker?

·         Does the landlord live in the house himself?

Questions about the tenancy:

·         Can I afford the rent?

·         Does the rent seem appropriate?

·         Is it an open-ended or a limited-term rental agreement?

·         When can I move into the apartment?

·         Is it a "normal" rental apartment, condominium, cooperative apartment, or community apartment?

·         Who is my landlord?

·         Do I want to rent this apartment?

APARTMENT RETURN

When you return to your old apartment, the end of the presidential cycle has been reached. The most important thing for you is probably to return your apartment in such a way that you get back the deposit that you gave when you signed the rental agreement. This is where you get the information you need for this final leg of our journey.

Your apartment should be clean and swept clean (free of movable objects) when you return it. Otherwise, the apartment and objects will be cleaned at your own expense.  ATTENTION! The prerequisite is of course that you received a clean apartment when you took over the apartment. On the other hand, rented items must of course be left in the apartment. 

Holes on the wall or in tiles when the apartment is returned:

Holes caused by pictures in the wall or tiles are generally part of normal wear and tear and do not have to be removed by you when you return to the apartment. Unless you've made excessive holes in the walls.