It is absurd that the process of immigrating to Germany and finding long-term accommodation contains a circular dependency, has done for years, and no-one appears to be doing anything about it.
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Replying to @nickstenning
do you mean the “needing to be registered to rent a house” and needing an address to be registered?
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Replying to @nickstenning
the way I got around it was by initially renting just a room for a short term until I got a place. I think flat shares usually don’t have that requirement. but yeah it sucks.
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Replying to @trodrigues
Yup, but now that's even harder. Since 2015 you are required to take a form to the Bürgeramt with the signature of the building owner (not landlord), which means that (for example) a friend can't stay with me and register here because that would be "illegal subletting."
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Replying to @trodrigues
Find one of the four apartments in Berlin which a) you can sublet without a SCHUFA, b) have a landlord who will fulfil their legal obligation to sign the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung, and c) is within your budget. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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fwiw, I sweet talked my way into getting a hotel manager to sign mine, which worked long enough for me to get a SCHUFA, which means I can now fail on the next step: actually finding a place
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