Can I save on Heating? - Utility Bill in Germany Explained

How is the utility bill paid in Germany? Is the heating cost divided amongst all the neighbors in the same building? We answer in detail how a utility bill in Germany is split, how to read it, and how to understand your actual costs in an apartment in Germany.
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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - What is a Utility Bill in Germany?
01:14 - How Do You Pay Your Utilities in Germany?
03:22 - What Costs Are Part of the Utility Bill?
05:15 - When Do You Get Your Utility Bill?
06:38 - How To Read A German Utility Bill?
12:56 - Can You Increase Your Utility Prepayments?
14:32 - Electricity costs in Germany
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[@Cintillo]

Great video! As always, very useful for learning all the intricacies of the Nebenkosten

[@colinmackenzie4363]

If your Nebenkostenabrechnung is too high because of errors (this does happen, too often), you can contest it. You have to contest the NKA within 1 year of receipt of the NKA. To get help doing this it's worth being a member of a local Mieterverein. Have a nice day everyone.

[@slavikshe1310]

That's great! Thank you so much! Your video makes my life easier on this topic!

[@sachinmadakashira7855]

Thank you for making such informative video on this topic 👍Finally I understood there are so many components in Nebenkosten other than heating cost 😅 Keep up your good work 👍😁

[@barisumutkurun8717]

Always the best quality and the most engaging topics, Thank you both from Hamburg🤗

[@kishoru3475]

Great Video! and one of the much needed one! Kudos !!

[@ciaracevedo1747]

Thank you!! Excellent video and informative. ❤

[@biankakoettlitz6979]

That's a reason,because I think, rental live is cheaper/easier in Norway. Here we have the rent , and usually the energi/Strom bill. If you want you get internet. But these other bills that's. yours alone, in rental flats you pay 12 rents and a depos

[@stellayusi6991]

very helpful!

[@laudadofo8944]

Great video

[@nls3685]

So its technically every household has an electricity credit yearly for instance 4000 kWh for one house (4 family member) then if we use it over 4000 kWh yearly we have to pay more but if we use less we will get the refund? 👀

[@akkianjana]

You know what? You’ve just saved me over 500 EUR. I got a letter from my landlord 3 months ago, and misunderstood the ‘Guthaben’ part, so paid him 250 extra when it meant that I have a 250 credit. After watching this video, now I know what it meant and have asked for a refund. Thanks to you two.

[@simplegermany]

Wow, thanks for sharing! So happy to clarify this for you! We hope you will get your 500 euros back soon 💪

[@NE0561]

Could you please make a video about choosing the best heating provider. Thank you so much.

[@rustix3]

15:25 If electricity consumption is digitally tracked so precise that you can track it on weekly basis, why that company doesn't charge you monthly per your consumption? Why you still need to pay a fixed electricity bill and then have "recalculation" at the end of the year? The same goes to all other costs which are digitally tracked(like you showed for heating). Then you can avoid almost 1year waiting time to get charged(usually for the last year at the end of this year). And as in your case that also stop from getting deposit for several months when you move out. Especially problematic for people moving out from Germany.

[@karthikreddy9810]

Hello, it would be great if you could show steuererklärung in English in Elster website👍

[@simplegermany]

You can use a software in English that simplifies it: www.simplegermany.com/best-tax-return-software-germany/

[@jonlordpicones3826]

What is your ostrom code?

[@seyyyyy3027]

❤💯

[@ehemalssimehtt3739]

❤

[@cenk82]

German way! As complex as possible! Ahahaha 😅

[@alexspata]

sadly very interesting, unfair and frightening 😂😂

[@simplegermany]

Why unfair?

[@alexspata]

@@simplegermany Because from my experience, calculating heating costs with "percent" like that, it's not fair and has a high rate of inaccuracy. A lot of tenants want to spare some money by not opening the heating, but it makes an insignificant difference, you still pay a lot, but you're also freezing 😂