After a few comfortable years in the same flat, I found myself back in the nightmare that is the German housing market. Hundreds of applicants for one place, five-minute viewings, and forms that look like they were faxed straight from 1998.
The worst part wasn’t even the competition - it was the Mieterselbstauskunft. It's a form that most landlords want.
name, employer, income, pets, signature and a bunch of stuff that stretches it to three pages. But because most PDF editors lock your file once you set a signature, you have the pleasure of filling it from scratch every time.
And you're gonna need it multiple times, thats just the housing market here.
After hours of searching, it seems that there is just no real good way to fill it.
To combat it, I built a small iOS app that lets you fill out and sign your rental self-disclosure digitally. Native form inputs, built-in signature with a handwriting-look, and a clean final PDF you can reuse in seconds.
I know that developing it cost 20 times more time than I will save by using it. But if a handful of people start using it too, it will be a net positiv on the human-time bottom-line.
If you’re curious, the app’s here: https://selbo-app.de/
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