Somebody sent be the letting company wants to come round and do:

die zweijährige Garantieabnahme durchführen

Translated using Babel that equates to:

the two-year warranty decrease would drive through

What is it that they want to do, exactly, and what is expected of me?

A search here turned up nothing.

Give two people one meal each and although it seems very fair, no richer atmosphere is generated. Give one person two meals, and the other none, and the person who has eaten two meals farts -- and that creates a richer atmosphere. That's the way Garantieabnahme works.

Is this a new building you are in? Basically, all new buildings are covered by a 1 or 2 year warranty... Towards the end of this period the building owners normally make an inspection, to see if the building has any defects to be repairs under the warranty. The inspection is normally quite thorough, as any unlisted defects after this period must be repaired at the cost of the building owner.

You may be required to give access to the owner / builder to allow this inspection to take place?? At least I think this is what this is all about.

Yes, it's a new place. That makes sense. Thanks.

you are absomalutely right with what you list, there is something small more to it too.

In complete new buildings at first letting out,white goods and other applicances such as washing machine,dishwasher ,tumbler,oven and so forth often have got a restricted warranty period ( 2 to 5 yrs) and a 'serviceabonnement' to them which the owner/landlord pays for a certain amount of time.

After this runs time out, the tenant is responsible to pay for this service subscription and any occuring repairs.

Obviously this affects only the white goods which are installed in the appartment itself,and not in shared facilities!!!!!


But the Gebäudeinspektion is something very important for a landlord,as we know only too well, when we got cracks in the floor tiles due to faulty work by the floorlayer and tiler..... the first cracks we could repair under this warranty and the respective enterprises had to cough up the £££,but the ones that showed up afterwards had to be paid out of our own pocket.....

that's not entirely true. You will have the 2-year warranty where you should look for every crack in the paint, plaster, pay attention to where wood or metal meets brick and cement, etc.

Do you own the place or is it rented? I assume with a rental that they will send an expert around and you just have to facilitate the visit.

You will have guarantee for 5 years or more on other items. It depends what they consider large problems and small problems.

What on earth were you smoking when you wrote THAT answer???

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