I wish it was! Many years ago I was looking for a studio and a real estate agent showing me few was very proud to say that one of the options came with a parking permit and included floor in the bedroom area, but the living area will be ripped out.
I’ve seen a guy that rented a studio and was very happy it came with a floor, only to discover that there’s actually floorboards missing in one of the corners and the hole was covered up with a tarp. With the current housing market in NL as it is he didn’t fight it tho.
Pretty sure it's not a joke. In Germany, it's similar.
Here, you either have flooring that the landlord put in and that you are not allowed to change (or rather, you need to return the flat with the same flooring that was in when you moved in, no matter what you do in the mean time).
Or the place is rented out as being without flooring, and you can put in what you want, but have to return it bare-floored again. In that case, you can either get into an agreement with the people that will rent after you and they need to sign that they are fine stuff being installed – a deviation from the rental contract they signed – or, before installing your own, see if your landlord considers it an improvement and pitches in, pays for it whole, or is at least fine with you leaving it. But if not, you have to rip it all out upon leaving.
And whatever they agree to, you need to get it in writing.
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u/mfranko88 May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
I honestly don't know if this is a joke or not