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Hidden Stasi bunker for rent - just €3,000/month

Why would you want to rent a concealed bunker built for the Stasi on the outskirts of Berlin in the 1980s? The Local tracks down the company behind the listing - and the history of the bunker under the GDR.

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Landlord 'right' to expel tenant over insults

A court in Munich has decided that a landlord acted within the law when he threw out his tenants over a barrage of insults.

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Court finds that you need money to pay rent

Germany's highest court has found that there are definite limits to the excuses you can offer your landlord for not paying your rent.

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Tenant must pay for shirking paint duties

A tenant must pay more than €3,000 for failing to follow German etiquette and repaint the walls of his apartment white after moving out, a Munich court has ruled.