Housing- and tenancy law

Like all legal issues is the matter, "Housing and Tenancy" relatively wide and repeatedly raises new questions. Where discrepancies clash, especially now with the rental of residential premises, it can often be conflicts and disputes. The living and tenancy controls around the entire legal agreement that establishes the connection concern between tenant and landlord. The living and tenancy law is part of civil law and is determined in the provisions of the Civil Code (§ 535). Thus, the particular vulnerability of the private housing tenant against his landlord usually superior is bound by contract.
In the tenancy or tenancy not only the conventional conditions are agreed upon a rental agreement, but also the contents of a lease. Both tenants and landlords have certain rights and obligations.

Rights and obligations of the tenant:

The house rules must be carried out on a regular basis.
Pushchair or wheelchair may be parked in the hallway, where the hall is big enough.
Due Diligence: The tenant has to treat the rented premises leased to him properly, so that no damage.
Domestic animals: Small animals like hamsters, canaries and fish in the aquarium or cage do not infringe and may not be prohibited.
Rest periods: from 13 to 15 and from 22 bis 7 clock clock are activities that cause noise or loud are to be avoided.
Spatial and obligation to grit: Is there a caretaker for the estate, the work is mostly in its scope. Often the winter, however, imposes obligations of the tenant.
The Räumpflicht clock starts at 7 am and lasts up to 20 clock.
Beauty repairs: As long as these are not mandatory, they have not done be. Upon moving out, it is enough to leave the apartment clean and vacate the rooms empty. Drilling and dowel holes are in the normal range for contractual use. Service Charge: Each must be individually listed Betriebskostenart be paid in full.
You must be distributed according to a particular key to individual homes. This could take the Space, the number of existing dwellings in the building or the number of people living in the apartment. However, this is not the cost of heating regulation.
Satellite TV: Where Community antenna or cable connection, the tenant is allowed to apply at their own expense an external antenna.

Rights and obligations of the landlord:

Renovation Work: The landlord has a duty to renovate the apartment, if it is necessary. The tenant must not be deleted even when you move out. Not even when the condition of the apartment, it would actually require.
Rent increase: A permission is the expiration of each year for the purpose of adapting to the changed economic conditions in the housing market.
Structural measures: Changes needed to preserve the house or rented premises or to repair damage may require, without the consent of the tenant to be made.
Entering the rented premises: the prior announcement that may be visited.

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