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How people in Belgium will try to screw you over | True Horror Stories
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- I’m back for the Halloween season with some warnings and real-life horror stories about how people can screw you over in Belgium.
As immigrants, we are in much more vulnerable positions than the natives. We just moved to a new country, we don’t necessarily know the customs, rules, laws of the country. We have no friends and family, and we often come from a less stable financial background, a country with lower salaries or national wealth.
Unfortunately, some people will try to exploit our vulnerable situation and lack of knowledge of our new country. I created this video to raise awareness and to share my bad experiences with you so that you can learn from my mistakes and avoid losing lots and lots of money. I hope you find it helpful ❤️ Sending you lots of love & wishing you a Happy Halloween (if you celebrate it).
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - INTRO
02:49 - SCAMMERS
09:40 - HOW LANDLORDS/REAL ESTATE AGENTS CAN SCREW YOU OVER
18:49 - CLEANING COSTS
Part 2 coming next week!
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Born Belgium (antwerp), but lived in many countries, and now have swiss nationality.
What you describe can happen everywhere (also in the USA) and I guess also in Hungary.
An it is not just immigrants that fall in such traps.... young adults also lack experience.
The same applies also to landlords: they can be screwed also by their tenants: the world is full of people that try to screw or deceive you.😢
I lived in Hungary and the UK and in both countries, they don't have such complicated rules when ending a housing contract. In the UK, we gave like a month notice and that's it. In Belgium, you have to pay attention to the 3 months notice, which is actually more than 3 months, the registered letter, it's just a lot of things that someone who is not familiar with the local rules can miss.
@@TheTruthAboutMigration It's typically mentioned in the contract you sign. switzerland is typically 3 months. In certain swiss cantons, you can only get out at 4 specific days per year (one per quarter), after announcing it per registered mail.
And that's where experience comes in: if you move to another country (which I have done a lot) your experience level starts at zero again for that particular country. Although I'm still a Belgian national, I have not lived there for 30+ years, and so I know I would need to be very careful if I would return. I do know the languages though. I hope you soon get used to the local environment - it takes several years.
Very true! We reside in South Africa and have had the same horrific landlord encounters here, it's unfortunately a shrewd practice worldwide.... Scammers and unethical people exist all over!
I lived in Belgium from 1970 to 1983, always as a renter. I never encountered any bad experiences with landlords. Scammers are everywhere you go. We should not let bad experiences dictate our feelings about people of a certain country, race, or ethnicity. BTW, I still have Belgian friends who are dear to me as family.
I am afraid this is not just in Belgium its all over Europe the same the reason is no one does read the small print when the sign a contract
True. I do feel like there are really such weird and complicated rules here in Belgium, that it's easy to miss something/take advantage of. For example, my friend had a landlord who told her she doesn't have to send him a formal registered letter when she gives notice for leaving the apartment. So she didn't, and the landlord went back on his word of course...
So normally under the 3 months rule, you can find another tenant to take over your contract without having to pay the 3, 2 or 1 month compensation (depending on after how many years you leave)
during covid the belgian state and ngo's gave hundres of thousands of irregular people money to survive. Tax money they were not entitled to. That is the nature of the social state you dislike.
If I need a home decorator I ll find easily a Polish worker who does that all in black. Get the picture? No I have to spend 5 times the amount and I have to wait 5 times longer to get a Belgian decorator who presents me a fat invoice included VAT That is the situation girl
Thanks for all the useful information and warnings!🙏
we have a king that mingles in nothing, he leaves the people alone
Thanks for your informative videos! My brother emigrated to Belgium last year and we are contemplating going over too. We are half Belgian and half Greek, but living in South Africa. What you have described here about landlords is exactly what we've experienced in South Africa. Overall, I think that greedy landlords will try to screw vulnerable people within any country. It's just a shrewd practice unfortunately 🙁
Hi I'm an immigrant from Asia , I lived and worked in Brussels and Leuven for 2 years ( 2013-2015) , I was lucky I didnt find any sort of scam or discrimination towards me however realised that there was quite a lot of issues between locals and my coleagues (eastern europeans) especially dealing with housing issues. Unsure if this is specific to Eastern European ? or just coincidences. I agree its definitely difficult when you have no support in foreign country plus ppl try to screw you .
Correction: the blocked security deposit account cannot be opened by the landlord, he/she can only 'block' it. Unless a judge gives permission to 'open' it and take the money. Remember: it is Your account...
I see, thanks for the correction!
@@TheTruthAboutMigrationyou better inform yourself thoroughly before telling the worldwide public bollocks.
There are always scammers everywhere. Mostly scammers come from other countries like India, where there are scam centers who try to fraud people in every way. Also a lot of landlord takes advantages of the deposit system. They are looking for excuses not to pay your deposit back. It also happens to local people. Before you rent, they must do an independant check of the state of the appartment (with a third party), and when you leave, they should do the same check.
The ones that screw you the most in Belgium are banks and insurance company's... And real estate company's.
@@Magic0165 really? Please do tell if you have any stories, red flags we should watch out for
Her husband has worked here for 5 years and is since 10 years on our mutuality. Get the picture? I pay for that. Then he will be entitled to get his family here who can also take advantage of our social system. And he will get a pension. WE PAID FOR THAT
I have some decent experience with immigrants in renting out real estate. Oh boy these people are not ready to fit in our system. Costly affair I must say.
Thanks for sharing this, I can really understand the incidents have caused upset which is really not nice. I hope it hasn't put you off living there too much. We lived in the Netherlands for 3 years in the early 1990s and in the space of a couple of weeks I got accosted by a gang on my way home from work and one of them was seriously trying to stab me but I outpaced him and my wife got her purse stolen when she was out shopping. It wasn't the deciding factor but it definitely contributed to our decision to move back to London very soon after. In many ways I wish we had stayed ... we'd have avoided Brexit and all the other rubbish things in UK. We really fancy buying a little base in Flanders for escaping to, we couldn't live there because of Brexit but I have done lot's of research and your warnings will certainly help keep our eyes open.
As already said: There are bad people everywhere. I have been scammed in Boedapest too.. By Taxidrivers; by people from the public transport system.. but I also met a lot of very nice and wonderful people. If you are in a vulnerable position there will be people that target you. Like the innocent girls in Vacy ut. in Budapest targeting lonely men by asking them directions to a "well known café they heard about that is so much fun!!" and if you point them to this location they invite you to have a drink with them and of course at the end they were employed by the bar owner and leave you with a bill of hundreds of Euros for silly simple drinks. I didn't go for that but I have been spoken to on several occassions!
My point is : scammers are everywhere and you need to be wary of them.
May your channel prosper & people know the reality of migration. Both good & bad.
Thank you so much! And indeed god and bad, you speak the truth my friend ❤️
And then you are coming telling me you are dicriminated when I have to pay the fat bill? Seriously?
What bollocks. In Hungary nobody screws you over, ofcourse. This happens only in Belgium. Cry me a river.
Get finally reel
immigrants all smoke russian cigarettes without tax labels. Do you realize how many billions belgian smokers pay in taxes on their marlboros I am just saying what i see. My co worker buys her glasses in Romania cuz they are much cheaper then she gets a company fee on it to cover the costs 400 euros Get the picture? Stop hustling and buy German Rodenstocks in Belgium.
from the moment on you get in our social system you'll get exactly the same advantages as a Belgian dop mututu korting ocmw and you even did not pay a dime for it. Complaining?
anyways eastern europeans are far frm bad people but their expectations are wrong
stop hustling stop acting smart and start integrating in society
How can they pay you below the minimum? That shouldn’t be allowed
What I've seen is, they offer you a salary that is below the minimum based on your responsibilities and your years of experience. For example, they offer you the minimum pay for someone who has assistant level responsibilities, whereas they give you manager responsibilities
they dont, if they do it is e shady business... belgium wages went up in index a lot past year.... if they treat u like that look for a decent job in a even more decent company.... Belgium is an honest country if u go to local and BELGIUM companies