Your tenants' association for carefree living in legal matters – become a member and benefit from the advantages!
With a large community behind you and experienced legal advisors at your side, your chances of preserving and or restoring the happiness of your ‘cosy home’ could hardly be better: We do everything we can for our members to resolve disagreements with landlords, lessors or co-owners. Regardless of whether it concerns residential or commercial property.
As a member of the Cologne Tenants' Association, you will receive free advice on all issues relating to your tenancy and lease as well as housing law matters. The associated correspondence also costs you nothing as a member, with the exception of special postage and delivery costs.
On the one hand, a separate membership must be taken out for our advisory services in the area of commercial leases; on the other hand, no tenancy law cover can be offered for commercial leases.
As a member of the tenants' association, you are entitled to tenancy law cover in accordance with the terms and conditions of DMB legal expenses insurance. This means that a dispute that leads to a lawsuit requires a minimum membership of three months in order to grant you cost protection. Discover the benefits of DMB legal expenses insurance and all other details.
You can count on our help. All year round. No matter how tricky your problem may seem at first. In order for us to be able to assure you of this, we need your support. We must be able to count on your punctual payment of contributions. According to the articles of association, the contribution must be paid annually in advance by 31 January of each year. If you take part in the direct debit scheme, we will save sending out contribution invoices; in this way you will help to reduce our postage and administration costs. As a direct debit payer, you will also find timely information in the tenant newsletter.
A framework agreement between the North Rhine-Westphalia Consumer Advice Centre and the German Tenants' Association of North Rhine-Westphalia has been in place since December 2011. This cooperation agreement is also effective for the Cologne Tenants' Association. Discover your advantages!
As a member of the Cologne Tenants' Association, you can purchase Consumer Advice Centre guides at special prices from the Consumer Advice Centres. Your special price is 10 % below the usual retail price.
As a member of the Cologne Tenants' Association, the NRW Consumer Advice Centre offers you out-of-court legal advice on the consumer law topics offered at the advice centre. This advice is free of charge for you and takes place in the advice centres. You can prove that you are entitled to use this service with your membership card.
People seeking advice from the Consumer Centre who are not yet members of the Cologne Tenants‘ Association can take advantage of a tenancy law consultation by a qualified tenancy lawyer from the Cologne Tenants’ Association for a fee. The consultations take place on the premises of the consumer advice centre and are offered at a price of EUR 20 per quarter of an hour.
The German Tenants' Association in Berlin cooperates with the United Services Union and offers ver.di members advice on tenancy law issues by telephone. The telephone number for the advice hotline is 030 - 2 23 23 73 and is available free of charge on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12.00 - 14.00 and on Thursdays from 18.00 - 20.00. Only the usual telephone charges apply. Only the usual telephone charges apply.
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Important: The German Tenants' Association provides advice on tenancy law exclusively for tenants. Questions that ver.di members have about home ownership or about renting out their own property are excluded from the advice service.
Please note: People seeking advice from ver.di can only contact the DMB hotline in Berlin. Telephone counselling by the lawyers of the Cologne Tenants' Association is not possible.