HOUSE RULES (Johan Been Straat 13, 6708 SM, Wageningen)
1- Quiet living in the apartment: Please do not disturb your house
mates and your neighbors with loud talks, loud music and loud
partying in the house. Especially after midnight please be really quiet
in the house. If you will give a big party in the house especially in the
garden please inform your neighbors.
2- The washing machine is positioned at the penthouse in the house.
Please make an appointment with the tenants of the penthouse for
washing your clothes. Because of the noise of the washing machine
most of the washing of the tenants will take place on the weekends
except the tenants of the penthouse. Also iron and ironing board are
positioned in the penthouse.
3- Please wear only slippers when you use the traps in the house. We
suggest you to leave your shoes at the hall after entering to the house
and wear your slippers.
4- Cleaning of the apartment: Please clean the shared areas
periodically. For this aim please prepare a list of cleaning duty
program for every week assigning one or more persons. Every tenant
will be in charge of the cleaning of their own room.
5- Please dispose the normal waste and organic waste to the right waste
containers in the garden area and take them to the collection point
outside of the house. Please also collect glasses in house. Please collect
the papers and take them to the storage room before to dispose them.
Don’t keep piles of papers in the house. The normal waste, organic
waste and paper have separate collection dates. The list of dates is
supplied to you from the municipality. Please do not miss the
collection days. Tins can be included in the normal waste. Glasses
and chemical waste or used batteries should be disposed at the
collection point close to the supermarkets. They are not directly
collected by the municipality.
6- Please clean the bathtube, and bathroom tiles after each use of the
bathroom.
7- Please do not hang anything on the walls in the apartment without
the permission of the landlord. Please do not make holes on the walls
with nails or pins without any plastic support. A cork board is
supplied for each room for hanging papers, photos and other things.
Also blue tug or similar material is allowed to hang the posters or
photos on the walls but when they are removed from the walls please
be careful and don’t give any damage to the walls.
8- When the vacating time arrives the rooms will be left as they were in
the position of the tenant’s arrival. If any room is not in good shape
during the final checks the tenant of that room is fined 50 Euro for
the cleaning and small repairs of the room. If there is a big damage
in the room or the shared parts of the house the security deposit
payments are used to repair the damage.
9- In principle the sublet of any room is not allowed in the house. If
there will be long term training of a tenants at abroad such as 6
months and longer the request of the tenant will be considered by
the housemates and the owner.
10- There is not any restriction for the visitors for the tenants but in
principle the visitors can’t stay overnight in the house. If there is an
urgency for a stay for example one or two days or for a weekend the
permission of the landlord is asked.
11- During the occupancy the tenants are responsible any repair of
the appliances or replacing any of the broken households listed on
the contents of apartment.
12- Saving in utilities: Please be responsible in using electricity, water,
gas and heating:
i)- Please keep the main heating knob in low position (around 1) while
everybody are not in the house or for the very cold days keep the main
heating knob on the position of 3. On other days, the knob will be set
between 1.5-2. The main knob is controlled by the tenant living in the
large room at the entrance floor. The other tenants only control their
radiator’s knob.
ii)- Please do not leave the lamps on when nobody needs them.
iii)- If anybody really does not need other washing modes please use
washing machine either in short wash and low temperature mode or in
eco washing mode.
iv)- Please turn the gas cooking knobs on in concerning the diameter of
your cooking pan. Don’t burn the handles of the pan or don’t heat the
air.
13- Please do not leave the windows wide open in second floor and the
penthouse area. Because of a strong wind the metal supports allowing
the opening of windows could be broken. If you want to keep the
window open please use the hole closest to the window on the metal
support.
14-The front and back garden are designated as the shared areas in the
house. The grass and the plants should be taken care by the tenants in
the house. The owner will take care all the plants and grass in the
beginning of the tenancy and the tenants will take care of them after
him. Normally grass needs to be cut every two months starting from the
spring time. Tenants can perform the cleaning of the gardens and
cutting grass according to a duty list they prepare.
15- The back door of the house and the door of the storage room could
be kept not locked. The tenants can enter from the back door and leave
their bikes in the storage room or in the garden. There is only one key
for the back door and the door of the storage room. Please keep these
keys in a safe place.
16-The waste system connected to the bathroom and toilets is unique to
this house. Please be careful with the material throwing to the toilets.
Only water soluble toilet papers must be thrown in.
17- A list of the household goods has been produced and signed by the
tenants and the representative of the landlord.
18- The tenants choose a representative for the communication with the
landlord and his representative.