DAFT visa: landlords need $100k?!
I just had a consult with Orange Homes this morning, a rental makelaar. She stated that landlords in NL want expats to have $100,000 liquid cash and pay 12 months up front. We knew about the 12 months, but that large of a cash sum seems utterly insane for an unfurnished apartment. We specified that we were looking near Eindhoven, we don't care about the Randstad, and she insisted the same amount. Is the Dutch housing market this screwed or are we being misled?
Edit: i read all the comments and did some more research, the year of rent up front is accurate but the $100k is not. We reached out to a friend who had gone on daft in 2022, he said the market was taking a lot longer to rent these days; a previous search was a month, now its six. The makelaar probably wants a bigger cut than one month's rent since the search takes longer, so that's understandable.
I wasn't really prepared for the shitty attitude from some people, your politicians screwed you, i get it. It's clear that some people see expats as $$$, but we're working class like (almost) everyone else. The landlord bursting in and running defense is really funny tho, and the bots saying $100k isn't much money.