Hello folks, I am new to Germany and I need your opinion on how rental agreements works. We talked with this person for an apartment and she says she is in Italy now and we have to pay 2400 Euros from the Booking.com first. Well, that sounds sketchy to me but is it?
by FoamingLimestone
4 comments
Absolutely common scam. Don’t send anything. No landlord will rent anything to you without seeing you first. Booking.com is not used to rent out apartments.
Renting as in vacation or to live here? Cause booking.com is just vacation stuff and they do all the payments through their website and there are no extra safety deposits. If you want to live here no normal owner will have you make the payments before even seeing the place, even the contract comes before paying
How can people still not instantly ignore this shit? This has nothing to do with Germany but being sensible on the internet.
4 comments
Absolutely common scam. Don’t send anything. No landlord will rent anything to you without seeing you first.
Booking.com is not used to rent out apartments.
Scaaaaam. Scam, scam, wonderful scam. Scammity scam!
Renting as in vacation or to live here? Cause booking.com is just vacation stuff and they do all the payments through their website and there are no extra safety deposits.
If you want to live here no normal owner will have you make the payments before even seeing the place, even the contract comes before paying
How can people still not instantly ignore this shit? This has nothing to do with Germany but being sensible on the internet.