22. Friendly, competent, hard working real estate agents
In Germany you can pay up to 2.38 x 1 months rent (approx $1800 Euros/2500 USD) for commission for their services paid by the renter, yours truly. Services include-opening the door of the apartment. No really, that’s about all they do, unlike America, where they earn their commission showing you a variety of homes, chauffeuring you in their luxury car, educating you about the schools and the quality of the neighborhood, doing all the mortgage/sales contract paperwork, and actually helping you find your perfect home. In Germany, they really don’t care and you have to pay them anyway, even if you did all the work locating it, they show you the apartment and that’s all, sometimes they even make it harder or cause more problems as indicated in number 21. Good times, good times.