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| Why not? You can write in almost anything you want in a contract as long as both parties agree and it's within the law. Typing vs writing doesn't invalidate a contract. You agreed to this at the signing.
This clause clearly wasn't within the law and is therefore null and void. Hurrah!
This doesn't sound unreasonable to me. It's very common in Switzerland for the final bills to come in a few months late. So he's not THAT far off with last years bills. Especially if you gave him 3 months notice. He probably said "well, I'll just do the whole bill at the end."
Well MiniMia, don't you think a contract should work both ways? You seem to expect tenants to fully adhere to the contract, whereas the landlord is entitled to some sort of creative licence ("I'll just do the the whole bill at the end") The contract clearly states "spese" should be invoiced at least once a year, which in our case meant before 31 May 2011. Interestingly, we didn't cancel the contract until 22 June 2011 nor had we mentioned this in any way beforehand to the landlord. The landlord must therefore be a clairvoyant...
I don't know, I don't see him being that unreasonable. This is just another case of expats "confirming" that "the Swiss are out to stitch up all the foreigners" myth. The OP agreed to this clause. So I don't see why the landlord should now be the bad guy.
Ok, he shouldn't have gone in the house without asking & he shouldn't have painted the outside fence without asking. But that's no reason to think he's the devil incarnate trying to screw the foreigners. | |
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In this case it clearly was a Swiss person stiching up a foreigner. The Swiss landlord, who works as a fulltime solicitor in Switzerland, included an illegal clause in the contract. And admitted, when confronted with the witness evidence during the handover of the property last week, they had acccessed the property at least three times without informing us beforehand. When asked why, the answer was "I have a busy day job too, I tried but I couldn't get hold of you." The landlord was in possession of my work phone number, my mobile number, my partner's mobile number, both our e-mail addresses and our home number. Neither one of us had received any missed calls, voicemail messages, e-mails or letters from the landlord.
All I can say is the landlord is lucky we're forgiving people and don't move to have this person struck off from practising law. We're just glad and very relieved we're out of that place. My final comment to you would be, the reason you struggle with your tenants allowing you access to your property, despite of you being a reasonable landlord, is because so many of your peers aren't decent landlords and so many tenants do get their fingers burnt. In the very unlikely event I would ever have to rent a property in Switzerland again, I would NEVER ever give a key to the landlord. We have always paid our rent on time and looked after the property well. We then give a key to the landlord to increase their chances of renting out the house again and this is how we are being repaid? They have shown us no respect whatsoever and treated us like milk cows.
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