How to rent an apartment
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"Two weeks could be sufficient, only spend more time looking if you have lots of free time."
How I did it: A month before our contract at the previous apartment ended, we started looking at real estate websites to get an idea of the price/value ratio we can shoot for. At this point it's not worth looking at actual apartments, because the owners usually prefer someone who moves in earlier.
Then, two weeks before the deadline we started to look at apartments, preferring the cheaper ones at first. However we found , that you really get what you pay for, so decided to slightly increase our price limit. That's how we found the apartment we ended up choosing, and it's worth the little extra money.
