Theresienstr. 3-Zi.-Whg., 4.OG/Lift, ca. 62m2, Parkett, Balk., sof., 800,- Euro + NK
We’ve had to learn a whole new vocabulary in our hunt for an apartment. The listing above is actually one of the clearest I’ve come across. Most are way more inscrutable. Apartment hunting in Munich is notoriously awful. There is a pretty short supply and a lot of people looking. If you see a listing for a really great one, you’d better call quick! Sometimes they’re pulled off the internet after only a few hours because so many people have already called. Then you go, cattle call-style, to an open house where you fill out an application that details your financial information, lists your nationality, and anything else they feel like asking you. So far, we’ve seen I think 8. We’ve applied for 4 and were offered 1. The one we were offered was a great apartment in a dullsville neighborhood and was only a 2 room. All this tramping around and looking has made us realize that we really need a 2.5 or 3 room apartment.
In Germany, or at least in Munich, they don’t count the bathroom or the kitchen. So, a 2 Zimmer Wohnung (2 room apartment) is the equivilant of an American 1 bedroom. After getting spoiled over the years with such spacious apartments, we are pretty sure that we would drive each other batty with only 2 rooms. Unfortunately, this realization has meant that we’ve needed to up our budget significantly. AND most of the 2.5 room to 3 room apartments we can afford are on the top floor. In buildings with no elevators. Which means the prospect of facing this everyday:
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This is quite a staircase! When you do sign a lease, what will the time-frame be?