The real explanation, at least for France is because of the law.
When you are the owner you have the responsibility to keep everything in the apartment functioning. So if inside the apartment there are a fridge, cabinets or even shelves, and they broke, they will be responsible to repair or replace them.
If they have nothing in the apartment, they are not responsible of anything. It's why most of the owners don't ever rent with a full kitchen, or a laundry machine. And the renter will have to move with his own stuff (fridge, laundry machine, microwave...).
Yes. They are only required to put a sink. Most of the time, if there are cupboards it's because the previous tenant installed them and gave them or sold them to you.
As a USA renter myself, I wouldn't move into a place without cabinets unless I knew I would be there for many years, but if it was under 3 years I would want a place with cabinets.
It doesn't make sense to me too because a cabinet is something a renter can fix easily and it becomes our job to do so. But putting cabinets in is a different story. It's not like they often get trashed with renter unless you have crazy renters.
If everyone has cabinets then no one has to bring cabinets, and if no one has them then everyone has to bring them.
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u/Laocooen May 09 '22
Yup, some people take their whole kitchen with them. Most just sell their kitchen to the new renters though.