Aug 4, 2023Liked by Maurice Frank, Andrew Bulkeley
I want to scream in impotent rage every time I hear about another attempt by the government to make construction fraud in this city even easier. I've spent the past 4 years in legal battles with a builder in this city who gladly took our money, but refuses to finish our apartment. This is a known construction industry scam. Dozens of half-built apartment buildings sit rotting here in Berlin because cowardly judges refuse to rule against corrupt builders. Meanwhile, as I sit in my ludicrously overpriced rental apartment in Mitte, I have lost track of how many apartments in my neighborhood are perpetually empty because the owners are obviously using them as bank accounts.
fraud was my first thought too, but I hadn't tied it together to that sort! we looked at an under construction apartment and asked how we know it will be done ON TIME and got no answer from anyone so bought an inferior but mostly together one. Hadn't realised it could have been a complete scam.
Aug 4, 2023·edited Aug 4, 2023Liked by Maurice Frank, Andrew Bulkeley
We had a parking permit and still received tickets, because we stupidly taped it up top under the dark part of the windshield... when you appeal (electronically!) citing your permit number, you can't upload an image, it's just a text field, and when you enter a link, they won't open it for security reasons. So they ask you, via a letter, to send in a photo of your permit. So you print your phone shot of your permit in your windshield and non-electronically mail it to the police. Then they dropped it.
Also: the helicopter, allegedly, is looking for late night graffiti stints.
I want to scream in impotent rage every time I hear about another attempt by the government to make construction fraud in this city even easier. I've spent the past 4 years in legal battles with a builder in this city who gladly took our money, but refuses to finish our apartment. This is a known construction industry scam. Dozens of half-built apartment buildings sit rotting here in Berlin because cowardly judges refuse to rule against corrupt builders. Meanwhile, as I sit in my ludicrously overpriced rental apartment in Mitte, I have lost track of how many apartments in my neighborhood are perpetually empty because the owners are obviously using them as bank accounts.
It’s actually illegal to leave an apartment empty with registering a d explaining why in Berlin
https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/393286-selling-an-apartment-how-long-can-it-be-empty/?page=1
It's also completely illegal what the builder is doing. But for some reason, the German court system seems completely incapable of stopping it.
fraud was my first thought too, but I hadn't tied it together to that sort! we looked at an under construction apartment and asked how we know it will be done ON TIME and got no answer from anyone so bought an inferior but mostly together one. Hadn't realised it could have been a complete scam.
We had a parking permit and still received tickets, because we stupidly taped it up top under the dark part of the windshield... when you appeal (electronically!) citing your permit number, you can't upload an image, it's just a text field, and when you enter a link, they won't open it for security reasons. So they ask you, via a letter, to send in a photo of your permit. So you print your phone shot of your permit in your windshield and non-electronically mail it to the police. Then they dropped it.
Also: the helicopter, allegedly, is looking for late night graffiti stints.