Immobilienscout 24 advises customers that someone looking for an apartment should present a Schufa report when they visit the property – and they earn a lot of money from it. The landlord is not even allowed to ask for it. Now there is trouble with consumer advocates.
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Nils Wischmeyer, Cologne
On the wooden dining table in Hamburg they are in a transparent cover: the self-disclosure, the Schufa information and somehow also the hopes of a young woman. It could all work out spontaneously with the new apartment, says Viktoria-Luise Könecke, bent over the folder. “I’m prepared for anything.” The hope is there.