Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Our apartments are the horror



Bonn --
"Stay beautiful, here." With this slogan advertises the German Annington Real Estate Group (DAIG), the largest housing company in the country to new tenants. But for the inhabitants of the objects in Masurenweg in Tannenbusch housing is anything but beautiful: defective heating systems and elevators, mold on the walls.
Ulrike Kliesch was fed up. She has drummed up the tenants in Masurenweg. "And so it goes no further," says Kliesch. She is the spokesperson for the disgruntled tenants. "Many tenants complain of deficiencies in the apartment."
Ganz hit particularly hard, it has Fatiha Aaboud-Fattah. In her apartment three rooms are heavily infested with mold and therefore uninhabitable. "I sleep with my five children in one room," she says.
"I am furious that the tenants must live in Tannenbusch in such circumstances," says Bernhard Felix von Grünberg, managing director of the German Tenants Bonn / Rhein-Sieg / Ahr. "I hope that the city does something."
This has now been called to the scene. On Thursday, employees of the Office of Social Affairs and Housing in Tannenbusch were on the ground and made a picture of the states. "The shortcomings are clear. We will now ask the DAIG to remedy the deficiencies, "said Heinz-Günter Benden, Director of the Department of Housing, to EXPRESS.
And now also wants to move DAIG. "The fact that the objects in the road Masur, there are some challenges for us is indisputable," says Katja Weisker, spokeswoman of DAIG on EXPRESS inquiry. "With family Aaboud-Fattah, we will share in the short term, the heating and removing the mold damage." And the other tenants to be helped. "We will send an employee, the tenants can show their shortcomings. We will announce by a notice in the houses ", continued Weisker.
DAIG also had trouble with the tenants in Duisdorf. Incomprehensible utility costs before the feast they spoiled the Christmas mood. They turned to the German Tenants' Association. After his intervention, the DAIG backed down. The utility bills were false and unfounded.