DEGermanyTenancy Law

German tenancy work in real time.

A lead and specialists for service-charge review, defect notices, rent reductions, termination defense, and litigation prep.

Service charges, terminations, rent reductions — on autopilot, with judgment.

§M-1138 · Bauer ./. Verwaltung Hansa
On the record
Inbox
Hearing — confirmation
court · clerk
IncomingM-1138
Nebenkostenabrechnung 2023
verwaltung@hansa-immo.de
"…Nachzahlung € 1.840 bis 30.06. fällig…"
Exhibits — addendum
counsel · file room
Documents — supplemental
client · primary
Team activity
  • Lead → routing to Nebenkostenprüfung
  • Nebenkosten → parsing 11 cost positions
  • Nebenkosten → flag: Hausmeister umlagefähig?
  • Drafting Prüfbericht · 4 findings
§   Awaiting attorney approval
Mietspiegel 2023 vs. 2024 — checking which applies to billing year. Asking the mandant.
Einwendungsfrist
§ 556 III BGB
11:42:17
Draft
awaiting your approval
Prüfbericht Nebenkostenabrechnung 2023

Position 4 (Gartenpflege): nicht ordnungsgemäß umgelegt gem. § 2 Nr. 10 BetrKV

Position 7 (Verwaltung): nach § 1 Abs. 2 BetrKV

nicht umlagefähig. Korrekturbetrag: € 412.

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Who this team is for

Built for these practices.

Tenant-side firms

Specialist practices with high-volume work.

Property-management legal teams

Operators that need legally clean portfolio handling.

Tenant associations

Advisory teams processing hundreds of requests per week.

What the team does

Concrete workflows. Named, not abstracted.

Service-charge review

Line by line, tied to the lease and BetrKV.

Defect notice

Structured, dated, with photo references and deadlines.

Rent reduction

Rate suggested from case law and tables, with reasoning.

Rent-increase defense

Rent index, cap, and rent-control logic.

Termination review

Form, deadline, cause, and hardship arguments.

Litigation prep

Eviction, payment, or declaratory claim drafts.

Meet the agents

Lead + specialists.

The roster
One lead. A bench of specialists.

Each agent owns one kind of work, and owns it deeply. Like your best associates — except there are forty of them, they're all awake, and none are leaving for a bigger firm.

Lead
Tenancy-Law Lead
Intakes cases, routes work, tracks deadlines, talks to the other side.
Specialist
Service-Charge Review
Items, recoverability, billing period.
Specialist
Defects & Reduction
Rate, deadline, evidence preservation.
Specialist
Termination Review
Form, social clause, hardship.
Specialist
Litigation Prep
Motion, evidence, value in dispute.
Day one

What it already knows.

Ships knowing
  • BGB §§ 535–580a
    German residential tenancy law.
  • BetrKV
    Which costs can be passed on — and which cannot.
  • Rent indexes
    Qualified vs. simple indexes and local logic.
  • Caps · rent control
    Regionally correct application.
  • Deposit rules
    Investment, settlement, interest.
From your firm

What it will learn.

It learns which authorities respond, which property managers pay, which litigate — and adjusts your letters accordingly.

The gray zone

How this team handles ambiguity.

§   Situation

Mold in the bathroom. Tenant ventilation or thermal bridge?

Handling

The team collects photos, humidity readings, and building type, gives a confidence-based view, and lets you decide.

§   Situation

Owner-use termination — economic hardship for the tenant?

Handling

The team checks income, market situation, and health factors, drafts the hardship argument, and names the odds.

Sample artifacts

Receipts. Redacted.

Review memo
redacted sample
Service-charge statement 2023 — Bauer v. Hansa

4 of 11 items are objectionable:

Item 4 gardening: not properly allocated § 2 No. 10 BetrKV

Item 7 administration: not recoverable § 1 II BetrKV

Correction in favor of client: €412.00.

Defect notice
redacted sample
Bathroom mold — unit 3

We hereby notify the following defect: mold on the wall behind the bathtub.

We set a cure deadline of 15 July 2024 under § 535 I 2 BGB

If the deadline passes without cure, rent will be reduced by 15%.

Compliance & local statutes

The team's bookshelf.

The team tracks: BGB §§ 535–580a, BetrKV, HeizkostenV, rent indexes, and leading BGH case law.

FAQ

Questions practitioners ask.

Does it also cover commercial leases?

The standard bench is residential. Commercial tenancy can be built as build-your-own, usually within two weeks.

What happens at an eviction date?

The team prepares. The lawyer attends. Nothing autonomous happens in court.

Who approves letters?

You do — standardized with one click, individualized when needed.

GDPR-compliant?

Yes. EU data residency, DPA available, strict client separation.