Wohnungs-Mietvertrag (Englisch) - Tenancy Agreement for Residential Premises (Seite 5)

The tenant may use the garden belonging to the house.

The landlord is entitled, with the consent of the majority of tenants, to install a community antenna, instead of individual antenna, for the reception of the usual radio and TV channels. In this case, the tenant is obliged to remove his individual antenna unless, in exceptional cases, he has legitimate reasons for keeping it. This also applies to all satellite dishes. The costs can only be allocated to those tenants that agree to these measures.

The landlord is obliged to keep a community receiver ready-to-receive (RR) at the local standard.

The tenant may have cable TV connected to his flat at his own expenses.

Provided the tenant has a legitimate interest, he is entitled to install an outdoor aerial for TV and radio reception for those TV/radio stations for which there is no community receiver at all or the landlord does not keep a receiver ready-to-receive. This also applies to satellite dishes (parabolic aerials).The landlord may choose where to install the antenna, provided this location guarantees faultless reception. The aerial must comply with VDE regulations for outdoor aerials. The tenant must keep his aerial in proper working order. The tenant will pay the costs of installing and maintaining his own aerial.

Outsourcing of the TV and radio supply to a third party requires the tenant's consent.

The landlord may only erect or permit the erection of a mobile phone base station with the tenant's consent.

The landlord or his representative may enter the rented property for legitimate reasons (sale of the house or flat, termination, repairs) in the company of interested parties or tradesmen and after prior agreement with the tenant. In doing so he must take into account the tenant's work schedule or other personal hindrances. Viewings are normally to be restricted to 3 hours on one day per week.

To ensure that the landlord can also access the flat in case of an emergency during an extended absence of the tenant, the tenant must inform the landlord to whom he has left a key for that purpose.

The landlord is obliged to provide the tenant in writing with all the necessary informations; this concerns in particular the statement of accounts for heating and operating costs, rent increases, reduction in interest rates, information about housing benefit application, calculations of residential floor areas as well as the details of how the rent of flats subsidised by public funds is made up.

The landlord undertakes to hand over to the tenant a photocopy of the energy performance certificate.

The tenant can terminate the permanent rent agreement anytime with a notice period of 3 months.

For the landlord, this notice period is extended to 6 months after 5 years and 9 months after 8 years of tenancy.

Declarations of termination must be received by the contracting partner no later than the 3 business day of the month if this month is to be included in the calculation of the notice period. The contracting parties can only terminate the agreement in writing; verbal terminations are invalid.

A partial termination of storage rooms is excluded.

The tenant is entitled to terminate the agreement prematurely if he can provide a new tenant.

In the event that the tenancy ends by means of a justifiable and legitimate termination without notice by the landlord, the tenant is liable for the damage suffered by the landlord as a consequence of the rooms being vacant for some time after the tenant moves out or having to be let at a cheaper rate. This liability is restricted to a maximum period of 2 months after the return of the flat. No such liability applies if the landlord has not made sufficient efforts to find a substitute tenant.

In the event that the tenancy ends by means of a justifiable and legitimate termination without notice by the tenant, the landlord is liable for damage suffered by the tenant.