You guide to German rental laws and tenant rights:

The German rental laws seem to be a jungle full of rules and exemptions. And to be honest, It's not the wildest story you'll find yourself digging into when going to Germany as an expat.

However, as dull as it might sound, the topic of tenant rights in Germany is pretty important. It’ll surely make your search for a new home in Germany easier and make you more confident when signing a rental contract.

Kaltmiete, Warmmiete, deposit: What’s it all about?
Kaltmiete (cold rent) is the rent for the bare flat, i.e. without heating, electricity, or the internet. So, should you rent a flat with Kaltmiete, then this must be stated in the rental contract.

You’ll come across two major types of rental agreements in Germany; indefinite (unbefristet) and fixed-term (befristet).

Hell, I just copy from this link:
You guide to German rental laws and tenant rights

Not funny. Read it, if you have such wild dreams to live as an expat in Germany. But beware: Uncle Joe-Sam might not be so amused when you do it.

Well the real reason I write this Quatsch, is, because there is some Quatsch more quatschier than ordinary quatsch.

So take this case: For over 40 Years you haven't lived in Germany, although tnis is the country you were born and lived in through your highschool years and as a student in University. You had no clue about rental laws and regulations. Because in highschool you lived in your parents house for free and as a student you lived in a student housing facility. You had your room, bath and if lucky your own kitchenette, You paid the rent and all was included, hot water, electricity or gas etc. Straight forward. Very tiny rooms, but your own room. We (my mother in law, my then husband, me and my baby) for a while.

In my times of studies (in the seventies) they were very generous, as long as you paid your rent, nobody bothered to check if you really were studying. So you had people who "studied" 10 years or more, just to keep the student appartments as tenants. (I don't know if it is still like that, I doubt it.)

So, I was never an owner or a landlord or a real tenant in Germany. What a surprise awaited me 40 years later, coming back to Germany from the US.

The parent's house I grew up in, had two units in it, separate utilities for everything. It was the part, my parents lived in and died in. It was the only house I could ever sleep in when I visited from the US. In two tiny rooms under the roof.

When both my parents had died, my sister had to rent out the part, in which my partents lived in. As she was a widow meanwhile too and could not keep up the whole house and garden, without that rental income. (Actually she can't keep it even with that rental income. She is incapacitäted regarding money management But nobody knew it.)

I had sold my osn rowhouse in the US hoping to buy a small house in HI, where my son has run away to, to forget his military time in the Iraq war and his stay in Korea.

As it turned out, I sold my US rowhouse (modest one for US Veterans of WWII built by Roosevelt) and thought I could use the money to buy another small in HI, but at that time I just had retired. So those HI-ians told me I can't get a mortgage. Boom. I also couldn't live in the modest apartement my son rented there. So I needed to return to Germany to have a place to live. I thought, my brother as well, that I could live in the part, my parents lived and died in. I couldn't imagine that this turned out to be a nightmare.

The tenants lived there since 2006. My sister gave me ownership of that part of the house with a completely non-sensical contract. I was not allowed to rent it out and I was not allowed to sell it. In some weirdo contract he tenants were supposed to have a life-long right to stay in there
So through this contract, I became owner and a landlord, with no rights to the property.

After I had understood under which conditions I became an owner and landlord with ho rights at all, I tried to get the tenant (meanwhile a 60 year old widow in a five bedroom rowhouse) out by claiming a termination for personal use. This is ongoing and my lawyer said that he could terminate the rental contract by the end of Septermber, that is more than 16 moths after attempting to move into that property. Great, isn't it. I wonder what my mother would have said, if she were alive.

Oh well, I know where I will live and sleep in. In a hammock.

So be it. I am tired and stop now. Have all a good place to sleep.

PS. It sucks to write an OT. So much wasted time on writing nothig but Quatsch. Note to myself: Don't do that again.

I love you all. So be it. ( can't format this better. The center tag is just mean to me and centers stuff, I won't have centered.
I guess this is my last good-bye.

With all thet is happening in Ukraine, I have no strength co continue. I pray for peace and no war for all of us.