So tenants react in Hanover
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Higher gas and electricity prices: This is how tenants in Hanover react
Hanover. Dark, rainy clouds are moving over the northern part of the city and the rental apartments opposite the fire station on Weidendamm on Wednesday afternoon. The scenery in the sky is quickly emblematic of the news that tenants have now heard. Enercity is drastically raising gas and electricity prices, and the first landlords, such as Hanova, who have apartments here, are already reacting with higher down payments for the additional costs. The impression of a small survey: people are prepared that the coming winter will be different than the past. They didn’t need the recent price shock for that.
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“You have to prepare for it,” says Mehmet Albayrak, who, together with his wife Sabine, is one of the few who are out and about in the wet weather during a rain break in the green area with a playground between the building blocks. “We live on the second floor, it’s cheap. If the apartments below, above and next to us are heated, we benefit,” explains Albayrak.
The temperature sensor doesn’t matter
But he and his wife don’t heat much anyway, as they say – they only turn on the heating when the outside temperature drops below ten degrees. “Depending on the weather, that’s about four months a year,” they sum up. If the municipal housing company Hanova lowers the temperature sensors for the heating by two to 16 degrees, they would not be affected by the effects at all.
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“It’s a bit difficult with the money at the moment anyway. After all, prices are not only rising for energy,” says a student. She lives as a sublet in one of the Hanova apartments and has already found out about the higher down payments that will soon be due. “But my main tenant pays a lot of attention to energy consumption anyway,” she reports. If in doubt, you had to put on thicker socks.
Even the little things count
At the nearby shopping market, people tend to create with the sky; they want dry feet to come home. Karl-Hermann Dellbrügge remains standing under a front roof. “Of course I save and pay more attention to money, not just energy,” he says. He doesn’t just want to do that in the coming heating season, he’s already doing it now – even if it’s supposed to be small things. “I only use cold water for washing and use the kettle for warm water so that the thermal bath doesn’t even start,” he gives as an example.
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Elisabeth Berlin, who is traveling with her little daughter, is currently looking for a larger apartment for the family. The development on the energy market gave her food for thought. “My husband is a doctor, we are not among the needy. What do those who earn little do?” she asks. It should still be the new apartment, and with a small child you want it to be warm. “But we will be very careful not to pull into a total energy catastrophe,” she explains.
After she has already said goodbye, Berlin turns around again. “There are people who care about everything. They don’t even have enough water,” she says. In view of the suffering caused by war and displacement in other parts of the world, the restrictions that the coming winter is likely to bring are rather small.