The Cultural Differences Between Australians and Germans

In Germany, it is perfectly acceptable that you make your rental property a home. My parents moved into their apartment, the one that I grew up in, in Berlin, in 1969. They rented that place for more than 40 years. That's possible because tenants have many more rights. As a tenant, you can choose to hammer any nail in the wall as you please. You can even tear down the occasional wall without having to worry about it. Most tenants install their own kitchen. There are restrictions, of course, on how you have to leave the place. If you do choose to move out, you pretty much have to leave it in the state that you found it in. In between