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Amsterdam landlord ordered to lower rent for tiny, leaky room from €1,950 to €95 per month (nltimes.nl)

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] NegativeInf 70 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good. Fuck that landlord.

[–] cumcum69 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck all landlords

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No. There are good landlords. They’re definitely small scale. Normal homeowners that are able to scale their efforts to a few rental units. There’s also a real need for renting rather than owning.

The real problems are all large scale landlords and also bad landlords (of all sizes) that overcharge, abuse tenants, forgo maintenance, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah my FIL, just recently sold a condo in FL. He’s had it since the 1980s and for the last 25 years it’s been rented by an elderly woman for basically the cost of condo fees, taxes and maintenance (though I think he lost money upgrading the sliding door after a hurricane). It was supposed to be where he retired to (15 years ago), but his wife had Alzheimer’s, so he ended up selling it when his tenant finally died, and sunk all the profit right back into his wife’s nursing home.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And he owes around 5k€ in back rent! That is proper justice for once.

[–] Bocky 5 points 6 months ago

Not much of a hit considering the landlord is giving back the money they shouldn’t have received in the first place.

Would be better if they had to give back money out of their own pocket in the form of a fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Still, €477 to live on Keizeersgracht, not to mention the backpay. I'm needing a poo just thinking about it.