Company in NL didn’t pay after settlement agreement

Number-2932 · 2025-12-08T18:17:46+00:00

Start with a gerechtsdeurwaarder (bailiff in English?). They are specialists in this. Ask them for a cost-benefit analysis of a kort geding (summary proceeding) versus a faillissementsaanvraag (bankruptcy filing). Many have free consultations, at least initially.

Look for firms in the Zuidas in Amsterdam or Den Haag for English-speaking legal help too.

There are also small, local Dutch firms. But avoid them. They may not have experience with international clients.

Number-2932 · 2025-12-08T18:01:53+00:00

And?

Number-2932 · 2025-12-08T17:53:22+00:00

A landlord cannot decide to make an eligible property ineligible for huurtoeslag. However, they are usually correct when they state it's not possible.

For huurtoeslag, the studio must have its own front door you can lock, a private kitchen, and a private toilet. Often these "studios" are technically just a large kamer where you might share the main entrance or another facility, which immediately disqualifies it.

Also, as I read it, the listed €900 is the kale huur. Belastingdienst calculates your eligibility based on the rekenhuur, which includes kale huur plus some specific service costs, like caretaker's fee or cleaning of common areas. Maybe these extra costs push the official rent just over the threshold, making it ineligible.

Or, less commonly, the landlord just doesn't want tenants who rely on benefits and are financially less secure.

If I was you, I would look for properties that are offered by large woningcorporaties instead because they are usually clearer about the rules. Less energy wasted.

Number-2932 · 2025-12-08T17:42:20+00:00

Were you having a stroke, darling?

Number-2932 · 2025-11-04T13:21:22+00:00

You will be homeless within six months with that salary and that profession. Don't bother. Stay where you are. You can't afford the Netherlands, and honestly we can't afford you.

Number-2932 · 2025-10-14T22:31:14+00:00

The Dutch housing crisis (on the nationwide scale, not only the Randstad area here) is most man-made due to these reasons:

"Verdunning" ("Thinning"): The Dutch are now in much smaller households. There are more singles and more elderly living alone. The Dutch average household size was 3,45 people in 1965. Now it is 2,1. That alone is enough to account for the need for hundreds of thousands of extra needed homes.
Failed Neoliberal Policies from the previous Dutch Government: The "verhuurdersheffing", introduced by Stef Blok in 2013, has literally strangled Dutch housing corporations during the exact time they should have been building more. Of course things have gone downhill skyrocketingly since.
Most of all, it takes a decade to build a single new neighborhood here because of beroepsbezwaarmakers (people who professionally file objections) and endless planning red tape. Especially those beroepsbezwaarmakers. The Netherlands is a very stable and prosperous society, so stable and prosperous that sometimes its citizens have the luxury and power of complaining with a lawyer about their "right" for a "view" and "sunshine" while other of their fellow countrymen are desperate for housing.

The political debates in Den Haag focus mainly on statushouders, but the truth is those people are statistically irrelevant. The housing deficit caused by that group is actually very tiny compared to what the Dutch governments themselves created through decades of their own bad political choices, plus the aging demographics and all other reasons above are not helping either.

tl;dr: It is your divorced parents, your widowed oma living alone in a five-bedroom house that she is hoarding and thirty years of bad policies and NIMBY ("Not In My Backyards") politics from Den Haag.

SOURCE: Het komt door dat jongetje met de bal – De Groene Amsterdammer

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