ᐅ Are building plans reliable? When is the right time to terminate your rental lease?
Created on: 14 May 2022 08:29
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Pinkiponk
I would like to ask you how long before moving into your new house you gave notice to terminate your previous rental apartment. At what stage of the building process or how much time before the move do you consider appropriate to be on the safe side? We have the usual(?) notice period of 3 months.
The reason for my question is probably clear: not to pay rent longer than necessary, but also to avoid having to stay in a hotel for (several) weeks and store furniture. We have recently moved to this area and therefore cannot stay temporarily with friends or relatives.
The reason for my question is probably clear: not to pay rent longer than necessary, but also to avoid having to stay in a hotel for (several) weeks and store furniture. We have recently moved to this area and therefore cannot stay temporarily with friends or relatives.
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WilderSueden17 May 2022 20:26This is also possible when you don’t work from home. Provided you can make it to work without any accidents on low caffeine 😉
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Neubau202217 May 2022 20:49WilderSueden schrieb:
This is possible even if you don’t work from home. Provided you can manage the commute to work on low caffeine without any accidents 😉 You don’t need a kitchen for a fully automatic coffee machine. It can also be placed next to the toilet 😎
WilderSueden schrieb:
In an emergency, the kitchen can also be managed with a camping stove and a powered cooler if needed. What I meant to say is that our schedule has been almost entirely on track.
We’re even going to put a wood stove in the garden.
Neubau2022 schrieb:
Or you can have lunch at work. On weekends, you can treat yourself to a restaurant 😎 We don’t have a canteen, for example, but that’s not a problem. We’ll find ways around it 🙂
And we’re not really feeling the pressure yet!
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Stefan00118 May 2022 07:24For us, all the delays piled up only in the last month. The electrician caught COVID, which delayed the plumbing installation. The painters were too slow...
I would rather pay an extra month of rent than have that kind of pressure.
It is especially interesting how quickly the general contractor can use the move-in date as leverage for a "minor" inspection.
The attitude is: "You want to move in this week, but of course, that’s only possible if you approve the inspection with very few defects. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait another three weeks."
When the overall construction schedule is confirmed and secure with the general contractor, and only your move-in date is tight, that’s really a tough position to be in.
I would rather pay an extra month of rent than have that kind of pressure.
It is especially interesting how quickly the general contractor can use the move-in date as leverage for a "minor" inspection.
The attitude is: "You want to move in this week, but of course, that’s only possible if you approve the inspection with very few defects. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait another three weeks."
When the overall construction schedule is confirmed and secure with the general contractor, and only your move-in date is tight, that’s really a tough position to be in.
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Neubau202218 May 2022 07:29Stefan001 schrieb:
For us, all the delays piled up just last month. The electrician had COVID-19, which delayed the plumbing installation. The painters were too slow...
I would rather pay an extra month’s rent than deal with the pressure.
It’s especially interesting how quickly the general contractor uses the move-in date as leverage to force a "minor" inspection.
The idea is: "You want to move in this week, but that only works if you approve the inspection with very few defects. Otherwise, you’ll unfortunately have to wait another three weeks."
If the rest of the construction schedule is firmly set with the general contractor and only your move-in date is tight, that’s a really tough position to be in. Our planned move-in date is mid to late July. On Monday, the anhydrite screed was poured. We are now giving notice to end the lease by 09/30 as a precaution and will discuss with the landlord about finding replacement tenants who might be able to move in earlier.
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Pinkiponk24 May 2022 19:32Neubau2022 schrieb:
Our planned move-in date would be mid to late July. On Monday, the screed was poured. We are now giving notice for September 30th as a precaution and will coordinate with the landlord to find new tenants who might be able to move in earlier. Our screed was poured last Thursday. 🙂
The house handover is scheduled for July 11th–22nd, 2022. Yesterday, we decided to give notice on our apartment for August 31st. 🙂 Our Plan B is to rent a large storage tent, if necessary, which we would set up on the property to store our furniture (which isn’t very valuable anyway)... once the house has passed inspection, we would just need to move the furniture inside, since it’s already on the property. 🙂 According to Plan B, we would live in a rented camper, holiday apartment, or something similar... maybe we’ll just camp, since it’s summer and we have electricity and water at the construction site. However, we are “only” two adults without children, pets, or professional or social commitments, so a temporarily unstructured daily routine is possible for us.
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