Anyone who owns a photovoltaic system should make sure that it is checked regularly to guarantee its functionality and to achieve maximum electricity yields. Especially at the beginning of spring, when the sun shines longer, owners should therefore carry out a solar system check and have the system and battery storage checked. Major damage that...
In a further measure to implement the climate protection plan, the German government has decided to introduce a Co2 price for the transport and heating sectors from January 2021. Accordingly, the prices for heating costs will rise. In order to protect low-income households in particular from the increase in costs, the housing allowance will therefore also be increased from January 2021. Thus, the...
The term "Detox" is primarily associated with detoxification and purification of the body or the field of cosmetics and skin care. However, "interior detox" is also playing an increasingly important role in the area of living. In order to live healthily and feel completely at ease within one's own four walls, a few steps of the "Interior-Detox" principle should therefore be followed. To...
In order to create more transparency in the area of ground leases and its developments on today's housing market, the real estate service provider JLL, in cooperation with the German Ground Lease Association, has published a study that sheds light on both the view of ground lease lenders and the assessment of private sector investors. Thanks to the high participation of ground lease lenders in the...
With the arrival of spring, gardening enthusiasts are looking forward to getting back to gardening. It is important for the gardening season that the nights are frost-free before gardening enthusiasts finally get to work. Hedges, shrubs and trees should be pruned first and as early as possible. After that, the soil should be loosened and prepared for the subsequent sowing...
A graywater recycling plant can save up to 70 liters of water per capita every day. The graywater recycling plant stores, filters and cleans the contaminated wastewater produced by showering, bathing or washing hands. The used wastewater, which is free of fecal matter and only slightly contaminated, is called graywater or service water. With a gray water recycling plant...
If a tenancy is terminated, the owner must present any outstanding claims from the tenancy to the tenant after a so-called "reasonable, not generally determinable period of consideration". Here, the landlord declares whether there is an interest in realizing the rental deposit on his part. As a rule, this period in accordance with §548 BGB is three...
The terms "temporary living" or "short-term rentals" refer to housing concepts in which the definition of "home" develops into a feeling that can arise in different places rather than referring to a fixed location, such as a city or a neighborhood. Since 1998, the Zukunftsinstitut has been working on the...
According to the latest calculations and forecasts by the Federal Statistical Office, the number of single-person households in Germany will rise to 19.3 million by 2040. In 2018, around 17.3 million people lived alone in a private household. A detailed listing of the Federal Statistical Office's calculations of population trends in Germany are available in the volume "Development...
Anyone who builds a house, modernizes their home or has damage and defects repaired is usually dependent on the cooperation of an expert craftsman. To ensure that there are no nasty surprises during and after the construction work, the Bauherren-Schutzbund e. V. explains, for example, what the difference is between a craftsman's contract and a consumer contract,...
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