• aulin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    References for renting? What sort of dystopia is that? I’ve never heard of that concept, luckily.

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      6 months ago

      It’s common in Germany to get a “reference” from your current landlord that basically just says “paid rent on time and didn’t set anything on fire”.

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        6 months ago

        It is? I’m german and I’ve rented my entire life and never got anything like it nor needed anything like it to rent.

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        6 months ago

        Huh. Here we have registries for people who habitually don’t pay on time, with a cooldown once they’re caught up. If you’re not in the registry it’s assumed that you’re good.

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          6 months ago

          Don’t worry, we have that registry in Germany as well. And you have to pay to get your own data from them (although a GDPR request works once a year)