Adem137

  How did they get your UK address? 

    Why should you pay a company for a service you dont receive? 

  How nice of them to fix the problems they caused for free. 

When I first moved here I was had coughs/colds back to back for a couple of months. Since then hardly anything. 

  Hi Panda,   Do you get taxed on the full rental income or only the "profit". I mean, can you deduct the mortgage payments from the rental income?

Some of the values here are crazy low. On the house we are buying the yearly "grundbesitzabgaben" tax is 1200 Euro/year. This includes Grundsteuer B, rubbish removal and "abwassergebuhren".  Is there really such a difference that some people pay 130euro / year?

  But if you have a normal mortage, you also dont get any savings on the amount you pay every month? Right?

  Normally what type of changes could be requested by either side? I'm almost at the Notar stage and would like to know if there is anything I should look out for.

Haha, believe me, as my wife will testify, i'm just as moany in real life.    I'll send you a PM once we move into the new place. 

I would like to get a Sky UK dish plus digibox etc installed in Cologne. Any recommendations? 

Slightly off topic but what is the general opinion of district heating? (Fernwärme)

Use something like Winsim. They are offering very good deals at the moment with no contracts. 

  I swear the phrase i've heard the most since moving here is "leider nicht möglich"