Netherlands apartment renting...WHY do you do this???

Renting an apartment in the Netherlands can come with very interesting twists! I'm not sure why it is this way and if you're coming from the United States you need to be aware of some of these. Many apartments don't come with flooring. As a renter you need to buy your own flooring and pull it up when you leave...WHY, who knows? Life in the Netherlands as an American or foreigner and trying to rent an Apartment here in the Netherlands can be difficult at best sometimes. Our life in the Netherlands has had its ups and downs but it's still an awesome place to live even with all its challenges. Expats in the Netherlands and renting in the Netherlands sometimes don't always go hand in hand but take your time, do your research and be patient and you'll be just fine...take it from an expat's who moved to Rotterdam and are enjoying life.

[@Joffreaux]

Most rentals in the Netherlands are owned by corporations instead of private landlords. The target group of renters are people that will stay in that home for a long time. Therefor, the flooring is an important personal choice. I love the fact that you don't have to live on carpet that has been used by former renters. When you want to move, you tell the corporation usually one month upfront. That gives them the chance to find a new renter who can discuss with you if they want to buy over the flooring or not. It's a great system imo.

[@royjansen93]

And long term is not 2-3 years. It could be 40 years. I was able to buy the floor from the previous owner for almost nothing, but it was ugly and they did a terrible instal. I refused so they had to take it out. Saving on dumping cost. I am planning on staying here for 10 to 15 years, after which I would need something else on my floor anyway.

[@audreygange]

Interesting. However, I have not seen any rentals that have carpets. They have wood floors or linoleum. Maybe all those flats which have no floors were previously carpets? Also, it seems extremely unlikely that someone would decide to rent one home for 10+ years, rather than buy their own. Or that the owner will not suddenly decide to sell the property or rent to a relative. Indeed, it benefits the owner because once a tenant has invested so much into the property, they would not want to leave. If the Dutch way is to customize the floor due to preference, why not customize the doors, faucets, cabinets, and exterior of the building, and so on? Because it is not my house, why should I invest in it? And maybe besides a cultural thing, it is a generational thing? I find this practice extremely unappealing unless you truly plan to stay for decades and there is no chance the owner will raise the rent like crazy or kick you out.

[@Taliesin6]

@@audreygange I've lived most of my life in a "rijtjeshuis" and the ones i've seen usually had carpet everywhere besides the livingroom/kitchen and toilet/bathroom. I've lived in my current rental for almost 30 years now. The owner is a large corp that isn't allowed to kick me out without authorization from a gov official for something serious (like neglect, danger etc). Also i was able to take over my mothers old rental contract because of unusual circumstances and because of that my new neighbours pay like 200 a month more than me. I'm not allowed to change doors, plumbing and exterior of the building (exeptions are showerhead, toilet seat and other "accesoires"). I'd have to pay 60 years of rent to outright buy this house but then i wouldn't get a rent subsidy which i get now because of my low income so in reality it would be like 80-100 years of rent up front. Because of said low income a mortgage isn't an option, also i would have to take care of all the maintenance myself. The corp that owns this place takes care of all that. In the time that i lived here they've replaced all the doors and windows for better insulated ones, new heating system, new ventilation system, new bathroom/toilet, new kitchen and cabinets, crawl space and roof insulation, asbestos removal, all without costs for me.

[@ozandiken]

How can I find an apartment in Rotterdam we are couple requiring legal long term address for our MVV resident & work visa we have income prof of 3.5k euros a month work contract stable job etc

[@PatrickSchouten]

Flooring is personal. So if you want laminaat, vloerkleed, tegels, or something else... you put it in yourself. When you leave a rented house, you have to remove all your belongings, incl. your floor :-) Or as you say, you often have the opportunity to leave the floor for the next renter. It is what it is, welcome to a different culture ;-)

[@phoebs69]

Exactly there are people want different flooring. Some want a underfloor heating

[@The_Mermaid]

Exactly, I guess it is a way of giving people - different renters - the opportunity to customize their home to their own taste. Same goes for unupholstered apartments, the renter can chose everything to their liking. Like Patrick already said, it's a cultural thing I guess. Dutchies like to be able to chose those things themselves, instead of having the landlord chose for them.

[@wesleyh.1181]

Investing in flooring in a rental appartement is the same as throwing your money in the garbage bin. It's also a big waste of resources, since a lot of floors aren't really re-usable. If you are there for a long-term then I understand, but then you should discuss it with the landlord/corporation. One of the most idiotic things in 'our culture'.

[@kappa2ou3]

Just crazy people do that!!!

[@PatrickSchouten]

it is not crazy as you know that we normaly rent a house or apartment for ten or more years

[@tyc9925]

People who rent a house in the Netherlands, will mostly rent it for a long term, like 10 years and more.This goes especially for social Housing, because there is a waiting list, in many cities, of 7 years and more, so you won't be able to move that many times. Therefore most of the times when people move out, the flooring is worn out or outdated, and you don't want to have that floor anyways. So you have to buy new flooring..and thus it saves you the trouble of taking out the old one. Same goes for curtains.

[@IesKorpershoek]

This goes for wallpaper and inside painting.

[@komkwam]

For me it makes perfect sense to move to a new house that is empty, often the decorations done by the previous owner/renter aren't always things the new resident would like. In an ampty house you can decorate the house completely to your own likings without having to remove old stuff first.

[@tactible]

When my granddad died I had to clear out the appartment he rented from the social housing corporation. I understood their demand to remove the top carpeting, but underneath there was a quite expensive and prestine underfloor. I called to ask if I could leave it in for the next tennants, for there was a concrete floor underneath that would need underflooring no matter what type of floor the next tennants would want. They told me to take it out anyway. Complete waste of time, money, materials and effort as far as I'm concerned. I'm dutch but as baffled as you are!

[@MrPekelharing]

True. I had to take out a very expensive wooden floor when my mum died. I bet the new tenants would have loved the floor. And they could have it for free. But still the corporation wanted it OUT,. Waste of money for sure.

[@albertlay8927]

The concrete IS the floor. What you lay on top of that is the floor covering (vloerbedekking). In general, if you leave the house you have to deliver it back in the state as it was when you moved in. So if there was no covering, then the covering needs to be removed. If there was a covering, and you remove it when you leave, the housing company can charge you for it. The housing company often works as an intermediate between the old and new residents. If they agree on taking over the covering, then the company accepts a delivery with the covering. Since people differ in taste and preferences, there are also different coverings. Sometimes the new residents don't care, or need their money for other things, and they will take the old covering. But more often people prefer a new covering (new house, new stuff, new beginning: that idea) and so they want the old covering to be removed. If the old residents are asking too much for the covering, you can simply say no and then it's their problem to remove it. Also, quite often they offer the covering for free, saving the trouble of removing.

[@marcovtjev]

Yes. In my first home after college I told the previous tenant to leave the horrible flooring in and then removed it myself. Why? The stairs were still decent even if the rooms weren't, and stairs are most costly to carpet.

[@gekkegerrit933]

when I was working as a "huismeester" I had to remove an expats flooring, this was in 2010, it was a very expensive 110 square meter wooden floor, I was supposed to throw it away, but I asked permission to take it, 13 years later and several appartments which have had that same flooring in it and it is still my floor, had to replace some planks but that 110 square metres easily fits my needs in a aprox 67 square metres appartment and still got replacement planks.

[@gekkegerrit933]

refurbishing your home is always a personal taste matter, that is why most (lower, social) renters tend to leave your appartment as it was when you hired it, that means even if you have upgraded the place with a new kitchen or bathroom, you have to take all out including wallpaper, to have a standerdised appartment to rent out, I think it is the feeling it is not your "own" when it is furbished by a standard .

[@gekkegerrit933]

if you do not leave the appartment, when you are moving on, the way you hired it , it will mean you will loose your deposit and worse.

[@gekkegerrit933]

they will charge you to bring it back down to their standards.

[@co7013]

Even in the nursing home where my father lived, floors where the residents responsibility. They only recently changed this, because these days people are so old and sick when they finally can go to the nursing home, that they will only spend a very limited time there... so now finally it is deemed more practical to provide flooring. Actually, this makes a lot of sense also because you where only allowed to use one particular type of flooring (vynil, which is easy to clean and to move around on with wheelchairs and strollers..).

[@sammuelsammuel123]

Wait, what??!!😮

[@co7013]

@@sammuelsammuel123 It's common in the netherlands that rental apartments do not come with a good floor. You have to put that in yourself..

[@jeremyoliviervoice]

Another cool video you two. Ladder trucks are also common in Korea. Most people live in apartments that are usually 20 or more floors high (yes, the trucks can lift stuff that high). They also charge around $80/hour and the crew can be hired to work with moving trucks included. They will do all the moving work for you and even pack and unpack everything so you don't have to do much at all. Ladder trucks are indeed impressive and big business over here! Korea makes things SUPER convenient and efficient.

[@nicolimmen2206]

A personal experience. In our first move abroad (to the USA) for a job assignment which would last three years. We rented a house in NJ which came with a golden coloured, wall to wall, floor carpet. As it was for only three years we didn't bother to change it. Boy, did we regret it as the assignment lasted 7 years. Lesson learned. In all subsequent moves to other countries we insisted that we could change the flooring to our liking.

[@GewoonFrieda]

We rent out home 40 years already and yes the flooring is very personal. We are glad that we can choose our flooring ourselves and change it when we want. We also don't have to worry about scratches or something like that because it is ours.

[@jwenting]

There's the BKR in the Netherlands, which is somewhat similar to a US credit check. It's a registry of loans and payment history, and rental companies and loan providers can check there to see if you are likely to have a history or potential of failing to pay in timely fashion. As said by others, flooring, wallpaper, etc. etc. are personal decisions and people rent long term. My student apartment I lived in for 7 years, my rental apartment after graduation I lived in for a decade. The student apartment came with carpeting but it was so worn out I had to tear it out and put in new. This is typical for student rentals... My rental apartment I put in flooring I chose, which by the time I moved out was so worn it was due for replacement anyway. Rental company offered me to remove it for me but was cheaper for me to do it myself. "in the US if you don't hire a moving company you have to rely on family and friends". Same in the Netherlands. Those vehicles you showed are basically derived from construction lifts and firetrucks. I'm sure they exist in the US as well. Of course in the Netherlands staircases are typically more narrow than they are in the US, so there's a greater need for means of getting stuff through upstairs windows. Which is problematic in newer houses as the windows tend to be a lot smaller to provide better insulation. Try moving a washing machine up a winding narrow Dutch staircase and you'll appreciate having a construction lift to help :)

[@bevtaber3946]

Wow! That is super interesting 🤔. Love watching your videos, I have learned so much!!💜😃

[@soepie17]

A house without flooring gives you a chance to really decorate your own space, it's nice to go to the carpet store and have your mind set to the world you want to live in (together with paint, curtains, furniture). It triggers your creativity...

[@RealConstructor]

Renters can be credit checked by a landlord at the BKR (Bureau of Credit Registration), this is an organization where all folks with a debt inThe Netherlands are registered. Even for cellphone debts, student loans, overdrafts or lease payments arrears. I’m registered there because I have a mortgage. It is to prevent people getting into more debt, but sometimes these checks (in case of debt) can prevent you from getting a mortgage with a lower interest rate or getting a mortgage at all. I only know of rent houses without kitchen appliances and without flooring, curtains and closets. There are kitchen cabinets and a sink and tap, but you’ll have to take your furnace/oven, fridge/freezer and dishwasher with you. As well as a washing machine and dryer. Flooring and curtains have to be bought or taken with you from your former home. The cheapest flooring are carpet tiles, linoleum or laminate floors. If you rent a new house that is just being built, you have to get all the stuff, but if you rent an existing house, you just ring at the front door and ask the renter if he/she has flooring, curtains or closets that you can take over. Sometimes it saves the renter time to remove it if he/she doesn’t want it in their new home or you can get to an agreement to pay money for it. I personally wouldn’t like to have flooring from a previous tenant. I just moved from an apartment to a bungalow and I payed €1,800 for moving. It is a lot of money, but they did everything in one day. Move the washing machine and dryer including disconnecting and connecting, remove the light fixtures and assemble them in my new home, they disassembled a big bookcase that covers a whole wall and assembled it in my new house, disassembled the garden lounge set and assembled it in my new garden. They deliver the moving boxes, packing materials (like paper sheets for breakables, tape etc), matras covers and stickers (you put on the boxes and write on them in which room they must be delivered). They came at 7.00 in the morning (with six movers, two trucks, a moving elevator and lots of ‘hondjes’ a sort of moving boards with wheels), and at 4.00 in the afternoon I was sitting on my couch in my new house. I just needed to unpack all the boxes. I’m not going to move using family and friends for that amount. And everything was insured. Luckily nothing broke or damaged. You can rent a moving elevator with someone to operate it for €49-99/hour. In some municipalities you need a license to park it in front of your house on the sidewalk or a parking place.

[@Busfles984]

In Dutch law, homes are defined as immovable property / immovable goods. Everything that is nailed and screwed or fixed to the immovable property is part of that immovable property. A laminate floor and curtains is / are not nailed / fixed to the property and are therefore movable property /movable goods. A kitchen and taps are fixed to the property and are therefore part of the immovable good /property. Plants in the garden are also part of the immovable property.

[@kayelle8005]

Missed you guys. Don’t know why you haven’t been appearing in my feed.

[@NL2500]

In the Netherlands, the housing market is divided into 3 groups; 1. Ownership (slightly increasing each year) and in 2021 57%, then social rent, these are rental homes owned by cooperatives, they rent out almost 30% of all homes in the Netherlands, and finally there is private rental, this is the remaining 13%. In the past, every rental contract of a cooperative stated that you had to leave the house in the condition in which you rented it. For the first tenants, this was (obviously) a bare house without wallpaper and floor (because new construction at that moment), and that is how you it had to be de again if you left. Today it is less difficult, but it may still be a requirement that you paint all walls white before you leave and/or remove the wallpaper. Many private landlords followed these requirements. What you do on the inside is up to you, but when you go it leaves it bare again. Part of the idea behind it was that any damage was very easily visible and either had to be repaired or repair was charged. First check online (search for "verhuizers") what a move will cost if you have it done for you. There is quite a lot of competition and it could be cheaper than you think. Last time I moved (almost 10 years ago) it cost me less than 1000 euros and they came with such a lift and 4 sturdy guys. Everything was delivered quickly and insured to the new house within half a day. I had packed everything myself (you can also have it done). Yes it is a bit more expensive than arranging everything yourself, but one of the better decision I have ever made. Picking up and returning a van, the elevator and everything, also costs time and money. Least stressful move ever.

[@sim-one]

Did anyone mention hygiene already? Even when a carpet would have been cleaned it wouldn’t feel comfortable… (other peoples pets 😳) It would be different with hard flooring. We had that once with cork “parket”. Saved on carpets when moving in but when we left it was a scary thought we could be the ones to get it all out. And it was glued on and they did a terrific job! Luckily the next renters took it over for f0,- we were just so happy to not having to do this while moving. 😅

[@IesKorpershoek]

We don't have credit scores like the US. We have 'BKR, Bureau Krediet Registratie', every loan (don't matter what for) is registered over there. Registration can have far-reaching consequences.

[@Wielie0305]

So true. Almost every credit is registered at the bkr. So the best thing is not to take a loan. At least that’s what my parents told me :)

[@carola_l]

Did you know this? I didnt...(sorry in Dutch); "Een mobiel die je elke maand bij je abonnement afbetaalt, is een krediet". That way you do have a BKR registration. Be aware all!

[@IesKorpershoek]

@@carola_lA Yes that's right. It applies to anything you buy on installment. Also, your credit card even with no outstanding balance is registered. Few people know that; this greatly affects getting a mortgage or the amount of the mortgage. But credit cards is a total other subject and so different from the USA.

[@jwenting]

@@carola_l yup. You're buying on credit. Same as in the past with post order companies offering spread payments. It's no different from a car loan.

[@jwenting]

@@IesKorpershoek That credit card will only be flagged though if you have a history of not paying the balance in timely fashion.

[@nellekeglansdorp1595]

Most people don’t rent a house or apartment for just 1 or 2 years. More like 10 to 50 years. And if you paid good money for that floor, you look after it, instead of it needing replacement every couple of years due to heavy living.

[@evengeduldsvp]

not just flooring: it used to be quite common to rent a house without a warm water heater. But as others have mentioned: usually in the netherlands you rent unfurnished/unupholstered for long term

[@co7013]

I remember how in Germany (Hannover, Dresden) nice wooden floors where very much a standard in apartments, also because this was in a time when the market in these places was actually a buyers (or rather renters) market. That has changed.. And apparently Germans like wooden floors. For some reasons English people seem to prefer awful carpeting and the Dutch like cheap plastic laminate.

[@EdwinMartin]

Plastic laminate is absolutely not cheap and it’s very durable. It certainly is much better than wood laminate which often shows wear spots after a couple of years.

[@resi3794]

You can rent a so called verhuislift voor a day from 102 euro up to 250. But it depence on the hight you need , there are lifts who go up a 31 meters in the air that is over a 100 feet. quit handy when you live at the 4e or 5e floor

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

My daughter got an apartment with flooring and guess what she did?……..she put in a new floor over the existing floor because she didn’t like the existing floor. She also removed the roll down window coverings by curtains. I once hired an apartment and told them well in advance. They found new tenants who I contacted, they were happy to take over my flooring and curtains- sun screens.

[@Peter_Scheen]

As for getting your stuff to your floor, some buildings in Amsterdam still have a beam built in the top of the building with a hook. You attach a rope and you simply haul up your stuff.

[@BB-uk4wj]

It's interesting. Flooring IS personal! In the US this is an expense covered by the land lord in between renters, as needed. However, that renter does not make any decision in flooring (99% of the time anuway). Like you are all saying, people make rentals their permanent homes or at least a very long time...longer than many people own a home in the US. I really like this concept. These are the superficial, coverings of a home and are personal preferences and choices.

[@RobinSijbesma]

I rent the appartement I live in for the last 10 years, and plenty of people here rent for (very) long time, so I want the interior to be to my taste including the flooring, why would I want to live years with flooring that is not of my choosing, or why would I rent a place that is ideal but I don't like the flooring? As to the landlords requiring to bring your rented apartment back to original state, if someone rented 5 or 7 years the flooring is probably worn down, so when the landlord want to rent the apartment out again, the landlord would have to spend the money, to fresh it up or remove it, while the renter did the damage. See it as it was a blank canvas when you started renting and you return it as a blank canvas back to the landlord again for the next one. For the part of buying the flooring from the last renter, the overturning is so fast in the Netherlands, that new renters already can get their rental contract, when the old renters are not even moved out, and the viewings of the apartment are often going on while the last renter still lives there, that is how you can negotiate with the old renter on what you want to them to leave behind. (and it is included in the rental agreement, top make sure that you as new renter, know what you will have to take out when you leave and the next renter does not want it)

[@JasonRamosNJ]

US Rentals 1mo up to 1.5 mo security deposit. You can pay first and last month rent up front. The last mo must be held in an escrow. At least in NJ. This is for On-market Listed Rentals in the MLS. If it is 0ff-Market its the wild west and no true standards are in place you can have 2mo security, pay 6mo in advance whatever is required to compensate for lack of credit etc. Again that is Off-Market without a realtor and not in the regulated MLS system.

[@wimschiphorst8541]

Here is my experience about renting an apartment. I sold my own house when I was 60 years old and went to rent a 55+ (senior) apartment. This was equipped with a standard kitchen and a very basic bathroom. I set everything up myself. Also the floor covering (wood), Wallpaper etc that cost me more than 10,000 euros in the end. (Have no pity on those who read this. I could afford it). And who knows how long he has to live. And once I. am in paradise (lol). Then my apartment will have to be brought into an old state. That is a concern for those left behind

[@only1dutchgirl]

Same goes for appliances. Don't expect a rental to have sppliances. You need to bring them yourself

[@Harolddespui]

It's something from back in the past. People didn't rent for a year or 2 but lived their whole (or half) their live in the same appartment. In that case you want to chose your own floor/wallpaper/kitchencabinets etcetera. It was pretty common and still is in some area's.

[@jpdj2715]

Go back 100 years and you'll find that almost everybody rented. People expected some level of new wallpaper, paint and flooring when they moved into a rented house or apartment. In that market, people actually moved house because they felt they needed a different wallpaper. The idea to own property is really a post WW2 invention in the NL. In that sense, way back, many people did not rent for extremely long time periods like today.

[@hermanwessels5133]

The quality of the flooring is always a hassle. So it’s better to remove it when you leave and buy new when you move in.

[@andrevdende8244]

You can make your home in your taste. Red flooring, White flooring, tiles, wood . Same for furniture 👍

[@rinynewton8297]

Hi again love your video. On the floors! ...I moved 3 years ago in a nice little 50 + house.(rented through a housing corporation)My husband and I took over several things in the house from the previous renter. This is handy because the person who left that house can't sometimes have everything fitting in his new house! For example flooring...different sizes! Soooo....they give you the chance to take it over for very little money. But....if that floor is in a bad state, then the new owner is made responsible to leave that floor in a good state when he leaves that house, with all the trouble that comes with it. So corporations now say, take it all out unless it's a good floor that can be taken over to the new renter. New houses are always sold with concrete floors. That's the floor in it. It's up to the buyer to put something in That's their choice that is personal. Hopefully this will help you. Nice to see both of you again.

[@jimjungle1397]

Furnished apartments usually require two month's rent as security deposit, instead of one month for unfurnished. Foreigners often have to come up with three month's rent as security deposit. When leaving, you usually have to clean everything, with proof of having cleaned, including drapes, (cleaning bills, etc.) or pay for cleaning from deposit. Advance notice of leaving can be one month, but usually two months, sometimes three, unless the rental is short term, then one month. It's funny the furnished rent is twice unfurnished, but also then requires two month deposit, which is four times unfurnished deposit. Many foreigners have to come up double or triple deposit, because they could just leave and never return.

[@MarN62]

Maybe it is something that has to do with the past. Carpeting was common and by the time new renters came it was dirty and most people did want to have new clean carpets. Now it just became a habit and most people like to be able to choose their own color or style. I would not like living in a place that has a very dark laminate flooring for example. I guess when you have to live there for two years as an expat you don't see the problem. But when you are renting for a lot of years you want to decorate in your own style.

[@tacoiest6145]

as an owner it has a lot of benefits to have empty houses. there is never any discussion on ware and tere of items like is this stain new or did it become bigger, or is the floor worn from normal use or is the tenant responsible for paying for cleaning or replacement. there is no time lost between move out and move in of tenants because there is no time necessary for reconditioning the Tenets wil do in the time they are paying rent for the place , and getting professionals here to recondition a house can take moths and all that time no rent is coming in. you don't need personnel to supervise the quality of work done or to decide what color wallpaper and flooring should go in next. and then there is the trouble of the law. if anything is included in the rent the owner is responsible for the upkeep and replacement. so if the renters were out the flooring in 10 years you will have to replace it while they are living there and that includes moving everything of the floor and back and probably providing alternative housing for the renters for the time while u are working on it. on an empty house all those problems and cost are the renters problems and costs. and if the renters are responsible for the costs they take a lot better care of the property and that same flooring is suddenly good for 20 - 30 years of service. fully furnished also has its advantages for the owner but only in the high end part of the marker. if the house is rented out fully furnished the points system for calculating the maximum rental price is not applicable so you can get a higher price for the house only dependent on the negotiations with the tenant and the market rate and not capt by the government.

[@joeyhohage]

It’s basically because the hight of the rent is determined by law. But it only contains the “casco” so basically everything that is solid attached to the house. Goverment commissions (example huurcommissie) ar there to inspect rental prices (this is a very short version). Land lords don’t want to debate the value of flooring and furniture (this is again why they ask to remove or that you conclude this with previous renter) (Most rental houses are owned by big corporations) Rental law is very difficult, it is difficult to evict a renter. That’s why sometimes they determine an extra deposit. Again this is a very short version! This is difficult. So if you’re going to rent ask for advise and take you’re own realtor

[@maanvis81]

i've been in this apt for 16 years now :). Most people here rent long term, and that's why they want to put in their own flooring.

[@DataStorm1]

The main difference is that near everything in the netherlands is stone/concrete build. No wood beams or w/e. Sure in old houses this still can be a thing, but you won't find that much in any recent houses since like the 70's or so. So a wood floor or walls with plaster etc aren't a thing here. As a renter goes out of a building after 10 to 50 years, all that needs often replacement anyway, unless it happened to be fairly recently been replaced. But the new renters might not want that color or type of flooring. And then you HAVE to get it out. Also, if a renter leaves, they have to announce that ahead, and often they ask if the new renter can visit and have a look and negotiate transition of certain things for money or "leave it" if its too much work. I know of a family that had to bring their shower back to "standard" by demand of the owning cooperation after living there for like 30 years, they had redone the bathroom beautifully with all piping in the walls, big nice tiles, shower cabin etc etc. and they had to bring it back to the state it was b4... they where NOT happy with that... so they did a botch job and it answered how it was but tilings was NOT nice and stuff... they remade their policies after that. If they made it nicer, they could leave it like it was. Dutch ppl don't tend to move a lot. The relations we have with the ppl around us make us more grounded with our surroundings than the company we happen to work for. There are plenty of other employers. Not plenty of other places to live close to family / friends etc.

[@frankvisser4617]

Little late to the party. But flooring is very personal, and we tend to live quite long in places where you need to floor yourself. Another thing; if there is already flooring in your rental, you have to pay for it to your landlord, and for the amount of time you live in their, it end up being more expensive. So, why not buy your favourite floor, and just pay for it, atleast it's yours.

[@ditnooitweer]

In the case of bare living accommodation, the rental value is based on the points system according to the home valuation system or is liberalized. This means that if the rental value is above 720.42 euros (2019), the rental property falls into the liberal rental market. The house or room is rented out for a long term and has a minimum rental period of 12 months. While in an upholstered room, among other things, floor covering is present, just like basic lighting and a complete kitchen, with bare rental only the concrete floor is visible, walls have not yet been painted or papered, lighting has not been installed and there is no built-in kitchen yet. is. The advantage is that you can furnish the house entirely to your own taste so that it becomes your 'own' home.

[@TerryVogelaar]

My daughter went to inspect her first rental apartment near Rotterdam CS today. She will probably get the key next week.

[@DenUitvreter]

Most student houses pick their own new roommate and are friends with the one leaving and there is no landlord involved other than is signing the contract. So then it's easily arranged that the next renter goes to live on the same carpet with all the nasty evidence from student life it contains. But it's not that big of a deal to replace it, you cycle back from some big box discount at the edge of the city with a 100 euro roll of carpet, and cut it to fit. A one person afternoon's work. When I was student there were a lot of those 45x45cm carpet tiles which were much easier to take to your new room, but often not worth it. A lot of parents come in and help with a nice new 200 euro laminate flooring, which is only slightly more work laying. But that's mostly from a far too optimistic view on how orderly and hygienic their offspring's life is going to be in the coming years. Before those furniture lifts especially in Amsterdam the furniture was hoisted to a window. Hooks on houses are mandatory there because of the narrow stairs/the stairs can be made narrow and save space. I know from experience that 4 way speakers don't take a fall from the 5th storey very well. We don't have a litigation culture, when you see someone holding a rope on the sidewalk, walk around him.

[@wharpblast264]

From a landlords point of view, the more "stuff" included with the rental the more "stuff" then landlord is responsible for cost of maintenance, replacement and insurance etc. Flooring might not be high maintenance, but kitchen appliances can fail regularly.

[@terenzo50]

I lived six years in Amsterdam. All the apartments were privately owned. No real troubles or issues except with my American bank.

[@gerbenmoljr]

"It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same sh*t over there they got here, but, it's just, just, there it's a little different" ... Really liked this vid and the way you wonder about these things. Greetings from Maastricht.

[@eskiltester3913]

Why would you want flooring done by a stranger that would probably not fit your style? If I move want a bare floor and be able to add my own flooring (laminate in most cases) that suits my interior style. You do your own wallpaper or wallpaint as well. You rent the house not the interior.

[@lindaraterink6451]

Well carpet is the most dirtiest thing that is around. So I am glad I can choose my own floors.

[@SarahConnor618]

Im dutch but agree w the flooring comment. Its madness

[@tom.jacobs]

Flooring is the first thing that people want renewed because of personal choices and/or being worn down by previous inhabitants. Only hard flooring is sustainable for >1 generation of renters. To escape all the hussle for owner, they put nothing/leaving it up to renter. If in good condition and pretty general flooring (laminated flooring, not to colorfull) they might be okay if you leave the place, but otherwise they need to take it out (because different renter wants different flooring). Curious on how (in USA) you (or proffesional movers) get your stuff upstairs then.. everything carry on the stairs? 🤨

[@lexreps5642]

i just need to comment :) : if u are getting this appartment/house without floors , u are a very very lucky person ! as it takes around 10+ years just to become eligible for these kind of rentals ( in some parts of the netherlands even 17 or 20yrs ) the housing market over here can't be compared with USA , students can try to rent a room ( almost impossible in the big cities ) .. long story shorts , all the very rich expats are welcome in the netherlands :)

[@sjaakvantilborg9275]

good to see you back tammy love the video as alway,s

[@jpdj2715]

It's simple. Flooring is personal. And not cheap. And it's a game between renters, landlords and next renters. Formally, when a renter rented an apartment without flooring they must remove their own flooring when they leave. If they don;t do that, then the landlord will do it for them and charge the costs to their safety deposit. As the removal of a floor may be a commercial hourly rate and all associated costs, this can become rather expensive. This then also drives the bargaining between the current renter and the next. The current renter may want money for their precious flooring and the next may really like it but not want to pay for it. Generally this ends up in the current renter taking it all out, either bringing it to the municipal waste station or trying to sell it elsewhere. If you look at the German market, then you'll see you need to bring your own kitchen and cupboards , etc. too.

[@harrybruijs2614]

We don't understand the opposite, why do you rent appartement with flooring etc . When we move we take it with us. You want it empty so you can make it yours. Also we don't rent a house for a few years, I live in my house more then 20 years. We most of the time don't have lease contracts with an end and rent not with a private landlord, but with an woningbouwvereniging like Vestia. Also we have huurbescherming(rentersprotection) so we cannot be ejected with no reason or confronted with unbridled rent increases. The government decides every year how high the maximum rent increase may be. . Every house(appartement) has a pointsscore and there is a maximum rent increase per score or as it was this year ,the rentincrease was differentiated by the so called kale huur in the sociale sector, Rent without service kosten. In the vrije sector the maximum rent increase was 3,3%. When you are not agreeing with the increase, you can put in a complaint with the huurcommissie, who will give a binding ruling . College students here don't rent an appartment, but a room most of the times and they are furnished mostly.

[@TAndTGoDutch]

Late to the party, but all of this is so true. We experienced it all!

[@a.j.haverkamp4023]

We barely used credit cards, so no credit checks. We use debit cards, we spend what we can afford by saving up front. We do have mortgages for houses. Recently more and more people are financing a new car instead of buying a cheap second hand car. Something I didn’t understand when I was in the USA (Pacifica, next to SFO) for about 20 years ago that almost no renter owned a washing machine. They had to go to a laundromat or use one that wasn’t “rented” from the landlord and shared with multiple apartment/houses. I guess it all went back to the times that people in the USA liked to move around very often and didn’t want to drag washing machines around. The renter pays for the flooring they want. You seem to prefer the landlord selecting it and having you pay for it through the rent. I doesn’t come for free, ever.

[@patrickgrimbergen7891]

Unapolstered is for long-term (lifetime) lets. They don't want the new renter to have any deconstruction costs. Apolstered is for medium-term lets. For a couple of years. You can change the floors etc only with permission of the landlord. Furnished is for short-stay. Few months or max 2 years. The further you go down this line, the easier it is to evict the renter.

[@patrickgrimbergen7891]

Unapolstered you also have to take the stone-tiles from the garden btw.

[@hummel3479]

I think it has to do with hygiene. I would not want to rent an apartment with the carpets , curtains etc.of the one that rented it before me

[@geertbosch2778]

People rent apartments/houses for the long haul: you may expect to live there 10 years or more. Most flooring is "vloerbedekking" or floor covering: comparatively cheap carpet that you'd want new. Someone else's 8 year used carpet (in particular if they had many kids/pets) will not be something that you'd like to have. So rather than having a fight with renters about the state or their "vloerbedekking", it's yours and you're responsible. Also, when moving from place to place, it is not uncommon to bring the vloerbedekking along. As student, I was thankful to take over my parent's high-quality 1970s era purple, green and orange vloerbedekking. Just a day on your knees to fit and cut, and you're done.

[@inge6280]

Haha, I had the same type of surprise when I learned that in other countries landlords put flooring in the rental properties. Still when I look at those home makeover programs I shudder at the thought that you would live on the previous occupants ‘dirty’ carpet.

[@audreygange]

Not sure where this was, but for example, in the US it is quite normal to put in new carpets for new tenants, unless they are newer, stain-free and in good condition - in this case they are professionally deep-cleaned. I would prefer the owner invest in the property and have it move-in ready than letting me do the work and spend the money. I do not need to choose my floor. If it is not hideous, it is sufficient. If it is hideous, I won't live there.

[@renebosch5917]

Well ... if you have problems with not having flooring, then don't go unupholstered. It is as simple as that. For short term renting you should go for at least upholstered. Because - as others pointed out - more often than not people tend to rent an apartment for years on end. I would not want rent an apartment which has a carpet that still shows which path the previous tennants mostly took while walking thru the rooms and where you can see exactly where all the chairs and tables had been. Perhaps they had pets, so who knows what's living in those carpets.

[@ellend9739]

Ahhh sounds very complicated you guys ! I am Canadian now but born Dutch in The Netherlands and that, what you are saying with rentals , is the norm ! You look after everything yourself 😅 ! We are spoiled in North America!

[@jimjungle1397]

Most apartments I've been in America require having to cover at least 70 percent of the floor with rugs or carpeting, to reduce sound in the building. When you leave, you have take it with you.

[@WhoStoleMyAlias]

It's a liability thing. Everything that is attached to the house (`nagelvast`) is the responsibility of the owner. This causes issues because renters as a rule experience maintenance inside the house as invasive and I have seen apartments where the occupants denied the workers access on multiple occasions and young people would think it came straight from Victorian times - no bath, no shower, the tiniest kitchen you ever saw. Additionally there is a rule that states you are not allowed to have hard surface flooring in apartments because this is the major reason for complaints about noise, so this always will have to come out even if the next renter is willing to buy it from you. Of course they can't actually stop you from installing such flooring, but then the responsibility is yours.

[@ikdoenietmeermee123]

With flooring it is the same with wall paper or the color of paint. It is up to you as the one who rents and according to your preference. Personally I don't want the old flooring because mostly it's not my kind of flavour. It is very personal.

[@EvertfromNederland]

That ladderlift really got me thinking. It is so random, but so funny you never saw it before. It comes in all shapes and sizes. Smaller versions are used in construction for roof tiles for example or to just simply get equipent up a few floors. I am sure it is used in the states. If not, then there must be a big market for it because it saves a ton of labour and it's easy to use.

[@tim3440]

Dutch landlord here; Flooring is extra money and materials are a bit more expensive here than in the US. So why taking the risk? You would be supprised what people do with your flooring... Sadly enough. Enough bad experiences to not give flooring ;) And the other thing; not letting your flooring stay in the place eventhough the previous renter gives it for free? Pretty simple, say it isnt put in correctly and someone falls? Who is liable? Me or the previous tenant? Sadly enough me. And another thing, which sadly enough happens, say that there is trash under the flooring for example and now it will stay there rot nice down there? ;) You would be supprised what you would find... Also from perfectly looking renters... And the last thing; we dont have to make the properties look more appealing, there is a way bigger demand than supply of rental properties in the Netherlands.

[@kimspirit6510]

i know its so annoying and very expensive to buy a whole new floor ughhh. my dad from the uk also finds it very odd. but absolutely with my social housing rent I stay here longer than 3 years. It's very long waiting lists to get into a different house, sadly.

[@kayelle8005]

Renting in Australia can be unfurnished or furnished. Most people intend to buy their own home at some stage. If you rent an unfurnished home they will supply flooring, curtains or blinds. They all supply ovens and heating. In some occasions they will supply white goods. I’ve once had the fridge supplied and once had the washing machine. The newer places will supply a dishwasher and air conditioning. Most landlords are individuals. Very few corporations. With furnished homes it varies how much they actually furnish. It may include all your kitchen supplies and linens as well as furniture for each room.

[@JaapGinder]

As said by many before: renting a house from a coorporation never incluse flooring, wallpaper or curtains. In case the old renter is still in the house, you can make an appointment to see what you can take over. Normally a low price will be agreed, or the old renter has to remove everything. 25 years ago I had the need to rent a small appartement, so I went looking. The carpet was oke, and I got it for nothing. It saved the lady to take it all out. I stayed there for a year and than moved to a house we bought. Yep, the carpet had to be taken out. About kitchens: in Germany it is common to bring your own kitchen in a rental house and take it out when leaving. Is not done here in the Netherlands. Furnitured appartements are mostly used for a short time, but nothing is your own. I've seen pink flooring....

[@dutchladylover]

Ooww... Eric picked up some unwanted habits on that cruise, right? 🤪🤣

[@yerrie1908]

The why is already answered I see, and I agree, it’s because it’s a personal taste but even when you upgrade stuff, I changed all the water tabs with new better ones but I kept the old ones so I can put them back when I leave, in general you have to give appartement back as you get it. I have a ugly basic bathroom and I don’t upgrade it because they will demand to take it out again.

[@Hammarspiken]

This is a syndrom from all Coffee shops in the Netherlands 👍🏼👍🏻 Just buy some smoke from the Coffee shops and pufff you don't need Floors 🌍👀 Sorry for my english i am swede ❤️🇸🇪❤️

[@chubbymoth5810]

In general you view a house when the current renter is still in it and when you meet them, you can discuss them leaving stuff or not, Some will demand money for it, but many won't being glad not to have to bother finding or renting a dumpster. Another aspect of that is that you do not have a deposit when there is nothing but required stuff in it. So empty house, no bail, low rent. Some stuff in it, landlord can ask a bail for that, higher rents, Fully furbished, big deposit, highest rent. The latter class of rents is almost exclusively for expats as any Dutch will acquire lots of stuff over time. But it is one of the reasons why old houses with wooden floors are popular. Any improvement to a house beyond what already exists you make, you'll have to ask permission of your landlord for and will allow them to increase the rent! So changing that 70's style bathroom comes at a double price. Renting is in general more expensive than buying in the Netherlands, though that also depends on where and what. It is very low stress though compared to owning a house with a bad mortgage.

[@Michiel1972]

Well, it's about personal choice (taste) mainly. Some people like carpet others wood. Also some people have an allergy for 'House dust mite'. So if there is already a carpet floor the existing floor has to be removed when you are allergic.

[@IesKorpershoek]

You don't need a mover. You can rent all the equipment you need.

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

The floor is a very important personal choice for your home decoration. When you rent, you have e to leave behind the house in its initial state. So when there is carpeting and you want wood, laminate or whatever, you’ll have to put back the carpet, when you leave. That’s a no go. Better start bare and put in your own choice of flooring. We are all able to put it in ourselves or we have a friend or family member that can help you out.

[@SwirlingSoul]

And if not, one can pay the store of the flooring to have it laid for you.

[@wil2lem1]

that thing that move stuff to the second floor is called a giraffe

[@eefje6321]

These are houses you rent for more than 1 or 2 years, but more like over 5 some even over 20 years. Next to that, it's not common to glue floors. You only do that with parket, which is rarely used in rental.

[@SwirlingSoul]

When we moved into our current rental, (actually before we moved in,) the kitchen drawer held a paper : the previous tenant had filled out a form with the things he would like for us to "take over". A wooden shed, livingroom flooring, curtains, sun screen. After each item he had put the price he wanted for it. We didn't want the shed, we paid him for everything else. They had to remove the shed. We didnt' want it, it was rotten, so we didn't want to be responsible for it's removal. It is great to have the option to just move in, and be able to close curtains, even if they're not your style and hideous. 😁 We rent from a corporation. So, now those taken over items are ours, and we are now responsible for it's removal if the next tenant doesn't want my stuff to stay behind. Anyway, you both sign that form, and on that form they also leave their contact info as do you. The landlord/corporation gets the eventually done with original, and you yourself can take a picture or make a copy to keep. It works. It can be VERY handy to have the flooring in, OR to NOT be responsible for removing a rotten old floor, so you can put in nice new stuff yourself.

[@racingweirdo-music7438]

the "verhuislift" is €178,11 per day or € 445,28 per week. if you do it on your own.

[@Vanoux2007]

Your videos get funnier and funnier; sailor!!

[@jurrione]

Floors in the Netherlands need care. It's the weather I think. It is either walk on socks indoors, or mess up your floor. Terra cotta tiles and wooden floorboards used to be normal. With rugs here and there to keep your feet off the cold winter floors. Old farms might still have that. When you moved, you took the rugs with you. I guess a part of the tradition comes from to leave a bare floor is there. Also it is harder to hide a bad floor when there is no covering. (Ever got into a house to find out 4 months later the supports under the floor are rotting away under your feet?) You get in, and you get a good floor that you can see. You go out and leave the same floor. (And other issues are revealed. No problems with CSI that comes to rip out your flooring to check for bloodstaines under the carpet. Or Walter White that used to cook in your crawlspace through that hatch in the corner. Or that wet patch that is caused by a years old leak.) Bare is honest. That is the point I think. Nothing to hide makes for a strong deal. That sounds pretty Dutch to my ears. But I thought this was a fun channel. Getting a house here is not fun these days.

[@ilonkagootjes858]

The corportions or private landlords just don't want to be responsable. They don't place a floor at the risk, renters don't like it, or damage it, and they don't want to replace a damaged floor.

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

I start to get annoyed with comparing the USA with The Netherlands. We are asking why for ever now about a lot in the USA. However, most Dutch understand that when we’re moving to another country you just except stuff. Not all Dutch are able, but certainly the many who live outside The Netherlands. One of the reasons we Dutch are successful all over the world. Adapt and don’t start to nag about differences. Every disadvantage has an advantage, duality is pretty consistent all over the world. Many expats rent fully furnished apartments, so you have this option for a short term staying. But people who rent a place are staying there for long. And renting companies make sure the place is clean, so they don’t have a build up of stuff during the years. But, it is possible, in many cases, to get in touch with the prior tenants. I sold a refrigerator, curtains and flooring to the next tenants. If this deal doesn’t happen, you get a clean place. Just how things work here.

[@lilydancing7748]

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[@stephenvanwijk9669]

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[@lilydancing7748]

@@stephenvanwijk9669 ik begrijp de irritatie niet eerlijk gezegd. Vind het een goede vergelijking en reden tot conversatie niet?

[@RogierYou]

You are soo right!

[@maaikevh1906]

One of the ways of adapting to another country is to attempt to understand that place's cultural differences, which is exactly what they are trying to do here. They are asking us why these things are done this way in the Netherlands to have a better understanding of it. I moved from the the Netherlands to Canada 25 years ago and I understand perfectly what they are talking about because in Canada they also don't take out what they call "permanent structures" here and floors fall under that. Mostly because there is a different definition here between "long term" and "short term" renting. Here "short term" pretty much means a few months or less than a year, and "long term" is somewhere between 1-3-5 years. That probably stems from the fact that (until recently) it was very affordable to buy and own your own place here and plenty of them available. In Europe it was more custom to rent for a lifetime and "long term" often meant 10 years or more. In Canada I had to learn that you couldn't just go and paint a wall without asking the landlord's permission or hang up a shelf. Essentially your rent allows you to live in the place, not to change it to your liking. I feel they are going through the same learning process I did back then, just the other way around. They are not nagging, they are asking us to help them understand, which in turn helps them adapt to Dutch culture.

[@vincentvermeulen6703]

I moved from a narrow Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam and they even arrange for the road to close for a couple of hours.

[@Wielie0305]

We are a picky people… we want our own stuff 😎✅

[@bertschalk1798]

Suppose you kinda like every available color of flooring ........except green !! What if you then rent a place and you find yourself back on green carpet in every room you have ??? I always thought it was ridiculous having to put up with someone else's taste in flooring when you rent a place. My brother rented an appartement in Munich, Germany years ago and there it was even custom to renew the flooring when you move OUT..... Now THAT is really insane imho......you have to spend money on flooring to provide the next tenant with new carpet that they may not even like at all (remember the green example above ?). And if you want to buy cheap as you will rent the place for a short period of time....shops like Leen Bakker, Kwantum etc. sell carpet tiles at a very reasonable price..... :-)

[@ebbieintech3085]

Great video! I love all of your videos and how informative it is! I definitely plan on visiting The Netherlands within the next 9 months! I just have to figure out a time to visit!

[@jwenting]

late spring or early summer is usually the best time for weather. Early spring can be very wet and even have snow and frost, late summer can get very dry and hot. So schedule for May-June (into early July), or look at what you want to do and see if that's time limited, obviously (like Keukenhof which has a very narrow opening window, or some open air museums that are closed part of the year).

[@nisaahamiltonmuhammad15]

You know, every state has different rules. YES some states DO allow and require first, last, and security deposits.

[@wilco8729]

When the house that you rent is to old. And the house is being demolished by the coöperation..., you Will get money from our covernment to move to a other appartement. And if you want to go back to the same place in the new house you get even more money from the covernment without paying it back

[@bertoverweel6588]

Hallo lovely people , when moving with the help of family or friends there is always one object people are passing in a great cicle , the washing machine . Groetjes

[@nlx78]

Sidenote, I think the 'don't give them that"" is more about the physical ID card or drivers license. It' contains your picture etc, but also a finger print. Plus, most important, they have a chip in it and thats what they want since it's needed to, for instance, proof you are you with the camera from different angles and reading the info (limited) of your persona. Sorry, loads of mistakes in text, but am sooo tired. ChherS!

[@requiescat4399]

In Netherlands you need a budget to rent an apartment. I always take my curtains and floor with me when I switch apartments, because it's expensive. Now I pay 480 Euro for a 3 bedroom apartment, with a large living room, closed kitchen, bathroom and a balcony, and I tell ya, that is cheap. I live up in the north in a village which is way cheaper renting than the big cities, like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, Utrecht etc.

[@IesKorpershoek]

Housing in all it's aspects is so different from the US, you can make plenty of videos on that subject. What I personally had the most trouble with as a renter in the US is the HOA, what we here call VVE "Vereniging van Eigenaren". Here in the Netherlands a VVE has very limited "power" unlike in the US where the HOA has, in my opinion, an absurd "power".

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

That is soooooo true!! Thanks for watching… Eric

[@jwenting]

yes, VVEs are limited in their powers by law to a far greater degree than US HOAs are (maybe because lawmakers saw what HOAs get up to and decided to prevent things getting that out of hand).

[@IesKorpershoek]

@@jwenting I'm familiar with both and know the differences.

[@nagranoth_]

Flooring is the same as curtains. It's a personal choice what you want. New renters shouldn't be burdened with the hassle and cost of removing the previous owner's choice of floor. Renters might want to take that very expensive wooden floor they only had for a few years with them as well when they move out. A kitchen or bathroom is attached to the house, you can't just remove it, so even though it's a personal choice you can't expect the previous renter to take it out. You have to choose whether you're renting the place based on what is already there. Are you happy with it? Don't you mind replacing it? But a floor is _not_ attached. You should never have to choose not to live somewhere because of something that's not attached to the house itself. In fact, if you put up some extreme wall paper or paint you might have to remove/repaint it when moving out as well. It's generally assumed someone moving in will paint/wallpaper themselves, but the house should be in a state where it's not _necessary_ to be a normal looking house. If you know you're moving in before the previous renter has left you usually can discuss whether you want to keep their floor. Maybe it's old and they're just happy they won't have to remove it, maybe it's high quality and new and they'll only want to leave it if you pay for it. Also when the owners know they're just going to rent it out for a short period anymore after you move out (for renovations, etc.) they might allow you to leave it if it's a decent floor, because then it's just temporary renters against squatting and they'll just have to accept the floor that's there or replace it themselves for that short period. College students usually don't rent entire houses or apartments... they rent just a room or a student flat, they can easily afford putting in a floor in such small places if needed. But student rooms often are as is including the floor. The lift has another reason as well: especially in old houses it might not be physically _possible_ to get certain furniture upstairs simply because the stairs/hallways are too narrow. They'll sometimes temporarily take a window pane out to move furniture in through an higher floor window frame.

[@wimschiphorst8541]

Another comment about an item in your video. It is not permitted by law to request an advance on the rent. That is why the lease of these types of landlords contains a fantasy term. Reservation for any damage caused, for example. But tenants don't dare to say anything about this, afraid of not getting the lease in this heated housing market at the moment. So a 3 month deposit IS NOT ALLOWED.

[@Roggen45]

As a few said already flooring is personal some may have carpet in the house and maybe the new tenant wants wooden floors you never know. I met the previous tenants daughter of my rental because she wanted to meet the new tenant of the house she grew up in basically ( also a choice u can make with the housing association sometimes to do the showing yourself or leave it to them ) and because that woman lived in the house since the 60's everything pretty much was outdated. So the choice of the housing association was to rip it all out and to "update" the kitchen and shower to modern times, but indeed i had to put in my own flooring, fridge, stove and anything else u normally being with a "move". I would have to say im glad they took it all out and updated it, cause i honestly wouldnt have wanted a floor or house for that matter with 60's stuff in it 😉, but if it were up to date i would have bought it from the lady for a cheaper price then the stores offer. From my own experience either carpet or vinyl flooring are the "cheapest" to buy, depending on how long your staying the in appartement it might not be the cheapest in the long haul cause it wears out faster then laminate or real wood flooring, but for 2/3 years it should be good ( not to forget vinyl does better in appartements where its more "moist" like badly ventilated old homes sometimes have here, so always look out for mildew in shower areas and or window corners ). Hugs from Groningen 👍❤️