🎉 As we kick off 2025, I want to encourage all my fellow Americans stationed in Germany—or preparing to move here—to start thinking differently about your housing allowance.Did you know that your housing allowance could be more than just a rent payment?

I buy homes as a primary residence with 5% down and move into them keeping my previous as a rental and the area that I live doesn't have new builds that would work for us, otherwise I would buy a new build. 

We have only 2 criteria for the order we process applications: 1) nearest move in to the date unit is available to be rented 2) order that the completed applications are received.If we had a unit for rent that would be rent ready Jan 15 and have multiple applications, the application processed first is the one who can move in the fewest days after Jan 15.  

Will take a while to move to another low cost country.  

These are factored into the mix.In the future, I will suggest that you request a move-out report along with pictures and/or video on what needs to be taken care of. 

The algorithm has a setting that when you change anything on your listing, you move up higher in the ranking. 

Kendall,Since you asked, here’s my story.Thirty years ago, in my mid-20s, I made a life-changing move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Ohio.

Tell them your policy and they can either abide by it or move out.

Even after moving 2.5 years ago, I continued to self-manage because I had a solid network of connections that made it pretty easy to handle remotely.That said, it eventually came down to wanting my time back.

Purchase price: $58,500 Cash invested: $55,000 Sale price: $155,000 Contributors: Peter Vekselman Partner Driven and Carol Tarnowski teamed up for a transformative project on 14th St, Fond du Lac, WI.