American Girl Reaction to German Homes & How They Live

In this video, I'm reacting to German homes and how they live. I'll be telling you how their homes are different from ours in America and how they live their lives. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did making it.

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[greetjeb]

Benefit of a rental house: when something big is broken, they repair it for you and for a small fee per month also the little things get repaired and once every few years they come to do inspect the outdoor painting and everything. And also they replace the kitchen, bathroom, toilets, windows etc once every 15 or so years without any costs for me.
So I love my rental home😊
Btw, that's in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[RustyDust]

At 0:50 those are both the letter boxes as well as the door bells for the individual apartments. That looks like a medium sized condominium apartment.

[jakovm]

I enjoy watching this reaction. Thank you. Greetings from Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷

[nothingspecialQ]

The "kitchen-thing" is really very special. But you have a very good chance to take over a complete kitchen from the pre-renter. Because every size of kitchens is so different and it makes no sense to take a kitchen with you that doesn't fit in the new home, many people are interested to sell their kitchen to the new renter. On the other hand, many Germans take the chance to buy a completely new kitchen when they move and don't want to buy a used one. So there is a chance to find a home with an installed kitchen - but it is mostly not what you would have bought yourself or a bit out of fashion.

[armitage]

We have something called "Mietkauf" where you can buy a house as a renter but instead of paying rent, you repay debts directly to the person who sold the house. So you own the house, you're not the renter, but it feels like paying a rent. If you couldn't afford rebuying debt any longer, the seller will get the house back. It's definitely better than paying rent where, as you already mentioned, you pay for nothing.

It's definitely not common to move with the kitchen. And very uncommon, more super rare, are these tiny houses.

[PPfilmemacher]

There are pros and cons for renting and owning
Renting pros are: you don’t have to fix everything thing on you’re own, instead, the landlord is responsible for repairing the apartment, for example in the event of water damage or burst pipes and if the heating fails.

if you are a homeowner you have to pay for every repair yourself, and on top of that you have to pay yearly high property taxes(you have to reckon with these ongoing monthly costs: property tax, electricity and heating costs, fees for chimney sweeps, water, sewage, garbage and street cleaning, telephone, Internet and broadcasting fees and insurance premiums)

[thorstent]

Often, tere is a kitchen in the new rented flat, but you have to buy it, because if the kitchen yours the Landlord don't have to pay and to organise the repairs. And in areas with a rare housing market they sell it often overpriced to make a extra profit. (Not all but it's very common)

[DJoneone]

So I'm lucky enough to inherit two houses. In one of them, I already live in one of the two flats. But I want to move into the other house because it's bigger.
I pay my utilities about 283€ per month (gas, water, electricity).
In addition, there is an annual amount of about 1700 €, which is divided. So I have to pay this amount of about 425€ every three months in addition for rubbish fees for both houses, property tax for both houses, precipitation fees for 3 roofs (annex is counted separately).
So I pay for both houses (138 m² and 100 m²) per month: 425€ Then there is internet and landline with 39, 95€ per month. GEZ is also added quarterly.

[philsarkol]

Germans live in a great variety of houses. Some even live in the attic...wich we in the Netherlands don, t . Merry Christmas to you and all your loved ones...grt..Phil

[lindaraterink]

Considdered to American standards I live in a tinyhouse, but it is a normal house to us.

[Marcello]

In the Netherlands it's nearly impossible to get a mortgage. You have to get like 20 to 30 thousand euro in your savings account before to be even considered for a mortgage by the bank. Thats like 10% of the price of most houses. And then you have to earn insane wage to even get a decent loan. If you earn like 40 thousand a year you can maby get like a mortgage of €180.000, - that gets you a small apartment of 40 to 60 m2. If youre lucky because most small apartments are above 200grand these days. If you want a real house you need to have a partner that also earns a nice wage and then maby you can get a nice house wich is like a normal blok house wit neighbors attached. That wil set you back like 300 to 400 thousand euro. So that's why a lot of people rent over here. It's nearly impossible to buy a house here. But if you rent there is no limits of the rent you can pay. Like you can pay €1200, - a month rent. But can't get a mortgage of €700, - a month on a house. It's crazy and always angers me when i think about this shit.

[Gianluca-ROTTERDAM]

I buy my first house in the netherlands for 400K euros. Before could buy i pay 780 euro every month. Without gas electricty water etc etc.. sow now i am save much more money every month (in the Netherlands).

[Hansen]

you can buy a house for the cost of a few years renting..
so it makes no sense to rent anything..

having my own house cost the same for a year as a month rent would cost
decides if you buy the right place it will only go up in value..

i dont have to go to work i just fix up cheap houses and make better money then if i had a job.
no other way could i make the same amount of money on a job or investment with my education and fortune

i could rent out, but i dont want to take that many money from people, i feel better selling my investments to people that have money and have the option to go somewhere else

last house i had had over 20 people renting a place in it, before i came..
i lived in it alone in it while i had it

[jimooijevaar]

Why use a creditcard if you have to pay more then normaly, you have to pay more because creditcard-money is borrowed-money
If you pay 7 dollar with Creditcard, maybe the normal product is 5 dollar but because you use rentmoney you have to pay 2 bucks more, why spend more money by using that c-card instead of paying the original price with cash or debitcard

[HawkPats]

I don't know where she has her information from, but in Germany it is NOT normal, to take the kitchen equipment with you when you move out of a rental apartment, let alone a condo or house. There are some occasions, where you move into an apartment without kitchen utilities and you have to bring your own stuff. And of course that is then YOUR property and you will take it with you on moving out. But usually the kitchen is part of the apartment and fully equiped.

That rules about painting the walls on moving out have an obvious reason: you should leave third-party property like you found it. Should be common sense, but isn't for everyone, sadly. So, as a landlord, you have to write it into the rental contract. And a deposit is also common in Germany.

And I never thought about privacy issues with names on door bells. Its in fact a little strange considering our privacy concerns in Germany/Europe. Maybe it has to do with our overall trust in the good of human kind (sarcasm off). We just don't have trust in companies handling our data. But companies usually don't walk around and write names and adresses down to use them 🙂