Buy an apartment in Munich

WAITING second child, my husband and I took up search for more spacious apartments. Not that very active - the first months of the baby will still sleep in a crib in our room. But advertisements in local newspapers about the lease carefully searched, even made a list of the necessary criteria to be met by new housing: the proximity of the metro, or at least train, everyone in the room, kitchen and a small garden or even a piece of lawn the size of a bath towel.

alone without children
DREAM, as we know, is not harmful. It seems that our demands were really dreaming of the section. Such apartments in Munich simply did not have in stock. And something similar offering or for exorbitant prices, or in the announcement immediately reported: "The apartment is ideal for older couples," which really means: "Only people without children."
In my "interesting" situation of actively seeking to do is not easy. But a couple of times on the show with her husband, of course, choose. On one of them around the apartment with us were running five pairs of similar age and situation: we are all together looking for a fourth room, which eventually turned out to be closet to the heating boiler, as vociferous maklersha forgot to warn us. Without waiting for the enthusiastic cheers from their customers, it would merely throw us out into the street and asked to report its final decision in respect of rent for the next day on the phone. Most of the apartments visited her husband in splendid isolation and plenty naputeshestvovalsya on the outskirts of Munich. Not to say that we too are very picky and demanding, but nevertheless, with new housing for young family of four people somehow did not develop.
in an unsuccessful search for days and weeks passed, our impatience is gradually replaced by despair. In the end we decided the only right in this situation, the decision - to buy. Prices in Munich, to put it mildly, bite: for 350 thousand euros you can buy a modest four-room apartment in a building (somewhere in the east or the north of Germany for the same amount you will be offered if not a little castle, then at least the Mighty House). Have such a wish, of course, for us, but, alas, in reality the capital of Bavaria is already out of the area completely unworkable desires. Housing loan for that amount would be costing us in the next 30 years, and debt for the house yet and grandchildren would have to pay.

Shelter "in the bud»
LOOKING suitable offers, order catalogs and brochures. Brokers and intermediary firms abruptly become friendlier, if not intrusive. Flats have decided to buy a new house, so you do not vomit pipes and leaking roofs. I must say that in Munich at every step - building, but built for the most part offices. As if in the Bavarian metropolis can only work well and live as if no longer required. Residential houses are built mostly on the outskirts, while potential buyers must give the impression of life in nature - including lawns, trees and singing birds. Apartments are bought back in the "embryonic" stage: where the piles are clogged, and where only pit dug. So in a sense, and we bought a pig in a poke, because there was only a house foundation. To imagine it in its final form, required a very rich imagination. In the glossy booklet, we chose a four-room apartment and within a week were sitting at the notary. One of the most important skills in his work is the ability for a certain unit of time as quickly as possible, and articulate a multi-page read aloud the text of the agreement to purchase real estate. The agreement was signed. Now this is not an existing apartment - ours. Periodically appears at a construction site, often at weekends, when there are no workers, inspect the brick wall, look in the windows of the first floor. It only remains to be patient until the summer, diligently repay the loan and hoped that construction work will be completed a bit earlier to have time to plant flowers in our garden the size of half a meter on ...

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