Guides & Tips

The new address for your pension goes to Deutsche Post's Pension Service. Plus registration within two weeks, health and care insurers, the broadcasting fee and the bank.

Bed, desk, shelving second-hand: where students find cheap furniture, what to check before buying and how collection works by furniture taxi or part load.

Summer holidays, the mid-year break or the middle of the school year? Each federal state sets its own holidays. How families with schoolchildren find the right date.

Berlin–Munich is around 585 km: at lorry speed with a 45-minute break after 4.5 hours, one short winter day is barely enough. How to plan with a buffer.

It gets especially warm under the roof in summer, and not every wardrobe fits under the slope: how to plan carrying, furniture sizes and airing when moving into an attic flat.

First the bed, lights and cookware, then storage, and the sofa and decorations last: buy your first furnishings by urgency, save second-hand, have furniture assembled.

A moving contract can be terminated at any time; unless agreed otherwise, the company is often entitled to a third of the freight (§ 415 HGB). What helps when postponing.

No subletting without the landlord's permission (§ 540 BGB), but a right to it if there is a legitimate interest (§ 553): contract, liability, registration.

If the new tenancy starts later: put furniture into storage, keep the essentials to hand, forward mail to an interim address – and weigh it against paying double rent.

Since 2026, €0.38 per kilometre applies from the first kilometre. How commuters split old and new routes in the year of the move, deduct home-office days and avoid mistakes.

Clear the flat, record meter readings in the report, cosmetic repairs only with a valid clause; landlord claims lapse after 6 months (§ 548 BGB).

Explain honestly and in an age-appropriate way, hold a farewell party, make a photo book of the old room, collect friends' addresses: how children cope with the goodbye.