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First of all, let's try to avoid American-bashing, and stay respectful to everyone.

I'll start: for me it's the tipping culture. Especially nowadays, with the recent post on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world with the 40% tip, it just seems so weird to me to have to pay extra just so that menu prices can stay low.

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[-] uint8_t@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

In Germany HOAs aren't a thing and by law you have quite good tenant rights. for example once you have an open ended rental contract, your landlord can't really throw you out on their whim.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Around here, they may not be able to arbitrarily throw me out, but they can decline to offer a new fixed-term lease when the current one expires, and rent automatically doubles if a fixed-term lease is not signed. Is that not a thing in Germany?

[-] uint8_t@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

next to no one gets fixed term leases here, and I think even if you would, after certain time, by law it implicitly changes into an open-ended one

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It implicitly changes to an open-ended one here too, but again, at double the rent. It's obviously meant to coerce tenants into continuing to sign fixed-term leases and agreeing to whatever new terms the landlord feels like imposing.

I envy you, that you actually have substantial protection under the law from malicious landlords.

[-] ebikefolder@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

There are just 4 or 5 legal reasons for a fixed term contract which have to be specified, and after a few (2 or 3) renewals (or the landlord lying about the reason), the contract becomes open end automatically.

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