If you're planning a short-term stay in the Amsterdam Area (under five years), renting is your best bet. After all, contracts can be easily changed, and you're spared the effort of making major repairs or maintenance.
Relocify takes care of the whole process, and the only thing we need from you is a timely reaction to new rental offers that we send to you.
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You will receive notifications from our web app and it will send you new offers daily from big rental websites such as Pararius or Funda and housing corporations like Holland2Stay and others.
Each offer will have actions such as "Schedule a viewing" or "Archive", please use them for accepting or rejecting offers.
All prices will be excl. utilities, and including service costs unless otherwise stated. On the property page you will also see approximate cost of utilities next to the monthly rent.
Most apartments will have energy labels, from A++++ to G, and the cost difference per year is not massive. Ones with A, B labels have double glazing, so you spend less on heating, and the difference will be ~€15-20 per month.
After you request a viewing, we will try to schedule it. Make sure to react to new offers as soon as possible so we get viewings for all properties you like.
As soon as viewing is scheduled we will send to you viewing details and on the viewing date you will receive video overview of the apartment or you can also join during the viewing if you are already in Amsterdam.
Most viewings last 5-10 minutes, and if you like the property, you can request to rent it.
We send only one offer at a time on your behalf. If the offer doesn't go through, we will continue a property search, but it's almost binding if the landlord accepts an offer; there are only a handful of cases when we can withdraw from the offer.
If the landlord accepts an offer, we will forward to you a draft version of the lease agreement, which we can negotiate on your behalf and which are generally:
Type A - Usually starts with a minimum 1 year, then continues for an indefinite period. Terminable by tenant: yes, per calendar month after the end of the fixed period (usually 1 year). Terminable by the landlord: yes, after the 1st fixed period. But cancellation is difficult and only for good reasons (e.g., the tenant does not pay, the tenant causes a nuisance, etc.).