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2021 and earlier

I understand this country less and less

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One thing I AM beginning to understand: Why many Germans are so suspicious of others.

I sold my parking space, to be handed over to the buyers on 1 August, together with two keys (a contractual requirement) for the entrance door because there is a small storage box in the basement that goes with the parking space.

When I asked our Hausverwaltung how I could procure those two keys, they said that would be too complicated because I would need a power of attorney, so they would take care of it. Because of one person going on holiday, another taking over, and copy of that e-mail correspondence to a third person, three people were involved in this promise in mid-June, so I thought that surely it would get done. If it had been only one person I might have reminded him or her at some point, but THREE …… I am not used to feeling nor acting on that kind of suspicion and mistrust.

But lo and behold, it did not get done, and now the only key shop in Berlin that kan make them is on holiday. And I am in trouble because I am in breach of contract.

I am going to bed. Tomorrow, I will think hard to find just one reason why I should stay in this country. Oh, and the small matter of where else to go, of course 🙂. And what to do with a flat that can neither be sold nor rented out (the neighbours from Hell – remember?) But right now I just want to drop everything and run.

The Balcony that "would not be affected"

Thanks a lot!

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Superduper. When this happened two days ago, it gave me hope – not only that they would remove the netting – but that perhaps they were finally going to remove that part of the scaffolding, which has not been used for anything for about a year but has caused such great nuisance.

But since 1 July, all that has happened is that I had to get my ladder and a hefty pair of scissors out to get rid of most of that netting myself.

No sign of them today either.

Both our Hausverwaltung Schön & Sever  and the entrepreneur Cresco Capital Group or Cresco Real Estate or whatever they are called are still refusing to answer questions about the scaffolding, which should have been removed end winter/early spring, as described earlier. My latest e-mail was sent 7 April and re-sent a couple of weeks later. You would think they had had time to respond. But obviously not the will.

In this of all years where some of us spend much more time at home than normally. And I, for one, would have liked to be able to enjoy spending some of that time on my balcony.

Schön & Sever , Cresco Capital Group, Cresco Real Estate