The stay at Roses place was not as I expected.
Based on the many positive reviews I choose this place, because I just arrived in the city and wanted to get in contact with open and friendly people.
During the first days I found exactly that. My room, bathroom and kitchen was clean.
Still many things were different than expected:
- I could not use the parking spot, which she wrote was included (when I asked for it ahead of time she offered me to cancel the flat if I am not okay with it. Due to the difficult housing situation this was clearly not a short term option)
- Her boyfriend recently moved in so the kitchen and living room was packed with his stuff. (In general not a problem she should have told me, when one expects the clean flat on the pictures.)
- My biggest problem with the flat was that I could not register at the municipal.
In Switzerland it is mandatory for everyone who moves to Switzerland and starts working to register within 8 days upon arrival. I told her in my application that I will work here and thereby was clearly not a tourist. Even though I only planed to live in the flat for two weeks I needed the registration to open a swiss bank account to receive my salary. Still, the moment I asked for the officially required documents (A prove that I live in the flat & copy of her ID card) that I needed to provide them to the municipal the tone turned very unprofessional and she got personal. I do not want to get into details here as it is public. I was able to resolve it in the end by directly telling the officials about my unfortunate situation.
As I just started my new job and additionally had those problems in this flat at the same time it was very stressful.
I understand that personal situations of people can be difficult, but if offering a very expensive (2120€/Month) single room one should behave accordingly.