Another reason to rent

[vetran]

apparently all is not well in the State of Deutschland


Stuttgart woman is so sick of landlords that lives on a TRAIN  | Daily Mail Online

Woman, 23, becomes so sick of landlords that she gives up her rented flat to live on a TRAIN and says it's 'like being on vacation all the time'
Leonie Müller, 23, from Stuttgart, Germany, gave up her permanent abode
Decision to live on train followed dispute with a landlord
Buys £240 monthly season ticket to travel on any train
Slightly cheaper than the £290-a-month rent she was paying
Her boyfriend lives in Cologne so suits her to travel to visit him

[darmstadt]

apparently all is not well in the State of Deutschland


Stuttgart woman is so sick of landlords that lives on a TRAIN* | Daily Mail Online

You did read the bit that she is also using this experience as part of her dissertation so it seems that it was partly planned. She also paid bugger all rent as she was in student accommodation and I expect to see her soon living back in the real world I see she is using the Bahncard 100 which costs €379 (second class) a month whereas if she was serious she would get a yearly one for €4090 and to get a decent seat where she could sleep then a first class one would be better value for €6890 a year. What is also not reported in this article is that she also spends a lot of time at friends and her grandparents

[FatLazyContractor]

You did read the bit that she is also using this experience as part of her dissertation so it seems that it was partly planned. She also paid bugger all rent as she was in student accommodation and I expect to see her soon living back in the real world I see she is using the Bahncard 100 which costs €379 (second class) a month whereas if she was serious she would get a yearly one for €4090 and to get a decent seat where she could sleep then a first class one would be better value for €6890 a year. What is also not reported in this article is that she also spends a lot of time at friends and her grandparents

Not to forget the free shags she gets in Cologne

[d000hg]

My renting friends complain that the boiler is broken and the landlord won't fix it, there's mould under the stairs, and one of them recently blogged about a mushroom that had grown in the carpet.

Think I'll pass!

You're still supposed to keep the place clean when renting. If it has mould/damp problems, you picked a bad place.

Boiler... yeah, that's a PITA.

[DimPrawn]

Rents rising more than twice as fast as living costs - Telegraph

Whereas as mortgage payments have never been cheaper.

You choose.

[PurpleGorilla]

Rents rising more than twice as fast as living costs - Telegraph

Whereas as mortgage payments have never been cheaper.

You choose.

Did you used to market those Star Trek collection sets that you pay each week. Get the Enterprise for £1.99 and then the next 99 models one a week for £7.99?

[AtW]

Rents rising more than twice as fast as living costs - Telegraph

Whereas as mortgage payments have never been cheaper.

You choose.

My rent has not been increased since I moved in 5 years ago, and it's the bank that owns the flats!

[DimPrawn]

Did you used to market those Star Trek collection sets that you pay each week. Get the Enterprise for £1.99 and then the next 99 models one a week for £7.99?

Yes, it paid for Prawn Towers.

[darmstadt]

apparently all is not well in the State of Deutschland


Stuttgart woman is so sick of landlords that lives on a TRAIN* | Daily Mail Online

Its all slowly coming out:

... it turns out Müller is really a sofa surfer who uses the pass to commute between Berlin, her boyfriend’s place in Cologne and Tübingen, where she goes to university. She rarely sleeps on board and averages just 1,200km (746 miles) a week on the railroad...

Actually the rest of this article is quite interesting: A German student swapped her flat for a train ticket. You