Last time I was looking for a rental in Berlin the norm was to be ghosted after submitting paper portfolio with full professional, financial, and credit info.
Yeah, it’s a real pain. Lots of application to send, lots of visiting all across the city, lots of printed form to fill over and over again with the same info you already sent. We had the same experience in Hamburg the first and second times, you first need to find something temporary just to be able to visit places, then spend weeks going through the whole process.
Did you have a better experience in Munich or Frankfurt? From what I heard Munich is also its own mess when looking for flats. No idea about Frankfurt (I just visited once and loved the place but don’t know people living there).
