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(3) the kitchen
starting position
If you want to optimize the kitchen according to the criteria of the rent mirror, you have to first look back at the distribution of relevant features. There are 6 negative and six positive ones. They are:
negative
- Kitchen without windows and without adequate ventilation ????
- No cooking facilities or gas / electric stove without an oven
- ?? No sink
- ?? Insufficient hot water supply (e.g. no central hot water supply, no instantaneous water heater, no boiler)
- ?? Kitchen not heatable or wood / coal heating ??
- Dishwasher in the kitchen cannot be adjusted or connected
positive
- High-quality tiles, high-quality linoleum, high-quality moisture-proof laminate, parquet, terrazzo as flooring in good condition
- separate kitchen with at least 14 sqm of floor space
- ?? Fitted kitchen with upper and lower cabinets as well as stove and sink ????
- Ceramic hob or induction hob ????
- extractor
- ??Fridge
Only very expensive to optimize are the flooring, the base or the installation of a fully fitted kitchen. Of course, all three criteria are those on the side of the home-value-increasing features. Before that is considered, one should consider existing criteria on the negative side remedy.
Improvement of the negative side of the rent mirror
In detail:
- You can not install a window so easily. It is different with a "sufficient ventilation". What is "sufficient" in this sense, of course, a personal or judicial review accessible. With regard to the criterion "extractor hood" on the positive side, however, it can be said that it does not have to be as much as an extractor, otherwise that would already be positive. Accordingly, "sufficient ventilation" is all about establishing a neutral state. This assumes that a vent is necessary at all. Remove odors and moisture. Whether that with less than a fume hood "sufficient" is, if the kitchen has no window, but in my opinion is questionable. So you should just take one extractor install, that can be done for under 100 Euro, one is on the safe side and has not only eliminated a negative feature, but also produced a positive feature.
- The next negative feature "No cooking facilities or gas / electric stove without an oven" must be read carefully: a ceramic or induction stove is not a "gas / electric stove", the lack of an oven is not a negative here. It only reduces the quality of the home if there is no stove at all in the kitchen or if the cooking facilities available are a makeshift solution (for example a camping stove). The difference between “no longer reducing the quality of living” and “increasing the quality of living” is small: a cooker with oven as stand-alone unit is available from 200 Euro, one with induction panels (even from Bosch) already for 225 Euro, With such a smaller difference, I would take the induction focus, after all, one then jumps from negative to positive.
- If the sink is missing, that is also cheap to fix: a simple sink To stand down costs 160 Euro, a tap still needs to. If there is already a worktop, it is enough sink with storage for 40 Euro.
- A hot water supply through water heater or boiler is sufficient, which in contrast to the bathroom in the latter no minimum size is required. Water heaters need either a very old or a very modern apartment electrics, which should be clarified in advance. If you can, you will find (not very trustworthy) Devices from around 50 Euro and the first Brand Model (from Bosch) for around 70 Euro. Under-sink water boiler is (by Zanker) for around 60 Euro, as I said without any special requirements for the housing electrics.
- The kitchen is not heated if there is no heater in it or only a coal or wood heating. Unlike the bathroom, the wording does not mention an electric radiator here. This means that the heating is sufficient by such. It depends on how big the kitchen is Device for 150 Euro to connect to an outlet to eliminate the negative feature.
- "Not adjustable" is a dishwasher in the kitchen, if it is too small to serve one. It is "not connectable" if the water inlet or outlet can not be connected. Sometimes it is enough Combination valve for 10 euros to fix the non-connectability. Occasionally, a dishwasher cannot be placed in the kitchen simply because there is a washing machine there, because it does not fit in the bathroom. It would be worth considering how this can be positioned most efficiently to accommodate both. If the washing machine cannot be placed or connected in either the bathroom or the kitchen, this is negative in group 3 “Apartment”, ie it should be able to be accommodated in one of the two functional rooms. "Adjustable" or "connectable" does not mean that such devices are available and must be provided by the landlord, it is only about the possibility as such.
As a result, a valve for 10 Euro or a undercounter boiler for 60 Euro may be enough to turn a negatively rated kitchen into a neutral one.
Improvement of the positive side of the rent index
The positive side is more expensive again. The first three criteria (high-quality flooring, floor space over 14 sqm, fully fitted kitchen) are, if not already available, only with great effort to achieve. The three following criteria, however, are comparatively favorable:
- A pair of ceramic hob with 4 zones are available from 140 Euro, while for the same size Induction hob with 300 Euro must count upwards.
- A fancier extractor is - see above - for under 100 Euro.
- A useful small fridge is available for almost 200 Euro.
An advantage of the above three criteria is that it is clearly evident whether they are present or not. With "high-quality" floor tiles you can always discuss whether they are really high-quality or not yet, and what high-quality means. When it comes to the refrigerator, it does not depend on its quality, but on whether it is available. Thus, the LG Berlin only recently (judgment of the 21.09.2018 to the Az. 65 S 127 / 18, no. 15 after juris) turned off solely on the presence and nothing else, as well as the extractor.
The result can also be done in the kitchen with a little thought, a systematic approach and precise knowledge of the apartment with few resources frequently achieve a lot.
book Note
The jurisprudence to the Berlin rent levels of the last 10 years, sorted after the individual characteristics of the span arrangement, I have published in the Grundigentumsverlag Handbook compiled. In it can be read, which equipment the courts have judged how - so to speak, a fine-tuning of any measures you have planned.