Once you send a reservation request, the landlord is notified that you are interested in his/her offer. From that moment, he/she has 24 hours to approve or reject your reservation.
Landlords are mainly interested in the profile of their tenant. Do not forget to fill in all necessary information, add your profile picture, or even make a short video about yourself. Doing that will make you more attractive for the owner and your reservation will more likely get approved.
You can take a look at the contract in advance and online with every offer. After you sign it, you will find it in the application My Housing.
While arranging a contract on Flatio, you do not have to worry that it could be disadvantageous for you. Our contracts are made so that we avoid all problems! All of them are the same, used by all the landlords on Flatio.
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How you can cancel a reservation varies depending on what stage the reservation is in.
Is your reservation request still waiting for landlord approval? Then you can simply cancel it directly from your My Housing web app!
However, if the owner has already approved your reservation request and you are no longer interested in it, only Flatio customer support can cancel it within 24 hours of approval. After this period, the reservation request can also be canceled by the owner.
Do you have an approved reservation and also a valid contract? In order to cancel your reservation for FREE, contact Flatio customer support well in advance of your contract beginning (the specific time depends on the type of cancellation policy).
The appartment was not as it seemed in the advertisement, and the landlady was very, very rude.
I had informed her in advance that I would arrive with my parents who would stay with me for a few days. Through the messages, she didn't seem to disagree.
But, when we arrived she was quite surprised by their presence. Maybe it was because she doesn't really speak english and didn't understand my message. And of course, if there is good will, language is a problem that can be managed. But there was not.
She was an hour late for the check-in. We were given the key by another person, but still she was the landlady, so we had to wait for her, since there were a few problems in the house. It felted like they were not expecting us.
She had claimed that the appartment was first floor, and it was ground floor with a window on the street with rather transparent curtains. It was quite cold also.There was no cooking pot, no soap, the towels seemed used, there was dirt in the bathroom, one unwashed dish, a big spider, two spider webs, no oven, I had to ask to bring me the microwave oven ,the clothes washing machine was in the common hall, shared with 2 more appartments (something that is not specified). On top of that, she was quite un-eager to help. She brought additional heating (the same night at 23:00 when we were sleeping) ,new towels, soap, shampoo etc (after 2 days or something) but she was aggressive and rude, when I was just asking for what she had claimed to be included in the advertisement. I can refer many other cases in which she was rude, like when she came knocking my door at 9:00 on a Saturday morning, before letting me know in advance, to show the place to the new cleaning lady, but it would take too long.
When I asked if two relatives who wanted to visit me could stay with me she unswered that they should rent a hotel and that she already had made an exception for me by letting my parents stay free of charge. I sent her a message saying that I respect her will. Some days later, I received a notification that she has terminated the contract and I should move out in a 30 days period.
Luckily enough, In just one week I had already found multiple other choices for accommodation, better and cheaper.
I moved out before the notification period,and although I repeatedly asked her to make our move out date formal through flatio (I even had a friend tell her that in czech and she said she would), she did not, so I had to pay for the remaining days of my contract without really living in the flat, thanks to the quite unclear flatio contract that doesn't really protect tenants. I had also asked her to bring the handover protocol for signing, but she did not.
I am happy that I moved out anyway and I am not living in this mess anymore.