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Hands-on know-how on listings, applicant selection and viewings – so you find the right tenant faster.
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Portable, PortaSplit or permanently installed? When you as a tenant need consent, what landlords have to tolerate – and why the July 2026 Federal Court of Justice ruling doesn't mean for tenants what everyone claims. With TA Lärm noise limits, running costs, winter heating, hygiene, insurance, a template letter and the landlord's perspective.
Received an own-use termination (Eigenbedarfskündigung)? This guide walks you through it from the tenant's side: who qualifies as the person with the need (§ 573 BGB), how the staggered periods really calculate (§ 573c BGB), which five formal defects topple a termination, how the hardship objection works (§ 574 BGB) – and what you can claim if the own-use need was only pretended. With an interactive deadline and formal-defect check.
Why a floor plan belongs in every listing, how to state the living area correctly under the German WoFlV (and which mistake can cost you up to 10 % of the rent) and how to create a listing-ready floor plan for free in a few steps.
How to draw a to-scale floor plan online – free and without signing up. With the right scale, the most important symbols, a 6-step walkthrough and the criteria that tell a genuinely free tool from a paywalled one.
OpenImmo is the open interface real-estate software and property portals use to exchange listing data. This guide explains in plain language what OpenImmo is, how an openimmo.xml is structured, which software exports the standard and how importing into a portal like WOHNO works.
A repeatable process for private landlords: pre-sort applications, build a shortlist, organise viewings cleanly (one-on-one instead of group), coordinate appointments, decline fairly – and which applicant data you must delete after letting under the GDPR.
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