ugh #Vonovia is trying yet again to install the Internet-enabled spyware smoke detectors in our apartment. They're doubling down on the threat that if we continue to refuse they'll take legal action, too.

time to contact the Mieterverein again for even more legal backup I guess, put one more lawsuit on the pile

just been back from my audience and I'm going to blog later on my subjective impressions of my first time at a German Amtsgericht, but first I want to talk of the results:

- The claim by #Vonovia (Deutsche Annington) that my bathroom is high quality was so patently absurd that their lawyer dropped it on the spot faced with a photo of my bathroom.
- Made me think of how much other brazen excuses they push on people and get away with because most people just won't fight back, like, I certainly wouldn't have paid a lawyer for this if I didn't have the renter's union backing me up.
- However, most of my apartment floor is in fact covered in vinyl, if cheap vinyl, and vinyl does technically count as high-quality flooring according to some set of criteria that I have no idea who decided where. The judge sounded to me like she's aware that the landlord's gaming the rules and she's sceptical of this being "high quality flooring", but she's not able to pick a fight with "the people who decide the criteria for rent increases" or something.
- So my rent will increase after all, but only part of what Vonovia demanded (the part that used the flooring as a pretext, and not the part referring to the bathroom).
- Because this is still a pretty sizeable rent increase the judge suggested as a compromise that I only start paying the new value from now on (as opposed to retroactively the equivalent of a year's increase)
- Their lawyer has refused this compromise.
- So the judge has to pronounce a decision on this point, which apparently isn't done on the spot as I thought but later at some point. I should be notified of it by letter.

#fuckVonovia tbh

Vor genau 10 Jahren bin ich in @dielinke eingetreten. Anfangs war ich kaum aktiv, aber das wurde immer mehr.

2018–2020 war ich im Kreisvorstand in Dortmund, 2020–2025 dann Kommunalpolitikerin im Rat und in der Bezirksvertretung Innenstadt-Nord. 2023 bin ich Kreissprecherin geworden.

Ich habe die ersten Haustürgespräche in #Dortmund gemacht, habe #Zetkin und Telefonaktionen eingeführt, war in Bündnissen aktiv und habe Demos gegen #Vonovia und die Vertreibung von Obdachlosen organisiert.

⚡️ Erfolg für die #Energiewende von unten!

#Vonovia muss nachgeben: Wer ein #Balkonkraftwerk installieren will, darf nicht mit überzogenen Auflagen behindert werden. Ein Rechtsverfahren mit Signalwirkung für hunderttausende Mieter*innen!

Weiter so! 😉
https://www.duh.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/signalwirkung-fuer-hunderttausende-mieterinnen-und-mieter-vonovia-erlaubt-balkonkraftwerk-nach-recht/