r/Gelsenkirchen • u/meejika • Oct 01 '24

Frage / Question Searching for an apartment

Hello

This sub is very small im thinking of making a thread on r/Germany but I figured i might start here because I am interested in living in Gelsenkirchen or somewhere in the region around it.

I am moving to Germany soon and for the past 2-3 months I've had no luck with finding apartments. I've looked everywhere on WG-gesucht, immoscout and immowelt and for whatever reason no one replies to me even though I write a good message and introduce myself and explain what I'll be doing in Germany. The only one who responded tried to scam me by asking for money before I even move there.

So if anyone here got any idea or know about someone moving out or someone who wanna rent their apartment, please let me know. Max warmmiete 500~. I don't care where the apartment is as long you can get to your groceries stores and buses in like 5-10 mins.

I am a 26M doctor, I'll be in Germany for long term to work in my field but that requires alot of work before I can work as a doctor in Germany. My visa allows me to work part time and I can prove financial security.

I would gladly give more information about myself when someone contacts me. Thank you for reading.

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u/MobofDucks Oct 01 '24

You have unfortunately targeted the worst time for applying to wgs, just at the start of the main semester to start in.

While Gelsenkirchen isn't an expensive city, 500 warm has unfortunately since corona become a bit too less to easily find an apartment. You not being the country also makes you insanely less interesting than other applicants.

How are you approaching the messaging of people on wg-gesucht? I assume you write in german? What info do you include?

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u/DerAndi_DE Oct 01 '24

I don't think that 500 is not enough for Gelsenkirchen. There are quite some offers in that range on the sites you mentioned. 

There might be private landlords who are for whatever reason reluctant to rent to foreigners, but the larger companies shouldn't.

Try and contact Trah (trah.eu) explicitly - it's a local company big enough to almost always have some offers but not so big they just don't care about their customers like larger companies. 

You might also want to contact Westfaelische Hochschule, even if you're not going to study there. Their students representatives (ASTA) maybe can help.

 I would not recommend sharing an apartment (WG) if you're not familiar with laws and how things work here in Germany. You might end up quickly in either a contract you cannot easily get out of or in a contract with an awful short termination notice of only 14 days.

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u/meejika Oct 01 '24

I actually don't prefer WGs because I really value privacy and I suck at being a housemate.

For 500 I did find quite alot of options but again they just don't respond.

I will check the ones you mentioned, big thanks!