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Originally Posted by tirsales
The neighbourhood is really fine and the rent is okay (with regard to the average rent in Germany it is extremely high - but then Tübingen is one of the most expensive towns in Germany and in the local average the flat is cheap).
I think I will first take care of that thrice d*mned door (shortly after installing some lighting  ) |
It must be a European vs. American sort of thing, but I have never lived in an apartment (flat) where the landlord didn't clean and paint (and sometimes re-carpet) the place before renting it out again. I always remember paying a rather hefty deposit to guarantee I would either leave the place in pristine condition, or offset the landlord's costs in making it that way before the next tenant took possession.
The night I moved out of my very last apartment, I had some black spray shoe dye in one box. The box was sort of a plastic milk case thing. Anyway, somehow the cap came off, and I put something on the spray bottle, and hear this pssssst sound, turned around and there was this long black spray mark on the nice beige carpet.
I spent the whole night getting that spot out .... but I did get it out, and the carpet looked perfect when I left. There are times that having a lot of practical chemistry in one's background is very helpful.
