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Bad management, overcharging, no internet for long periods, no maintenance and the list goes on

Rart sted at bo, især hvis man er social. Dog er det lidt dyrt i forhold til leje.

My experience at this dormitory has been conditioned by the issues with the fire alarm system. Despite claims of having resolved hypersensitivity problems after the first few months, the problem persisted. False fire alarms continued to be present, sometimes triggered by mundane occurrences like some excessive microwave smoke from overcooked food for just one minute more or excessive wattage, a forgotten fan left off while cooking or forgetting the open door while showeringBasically, the dorm doesn't have an internal alarm system that precedes the arrival of firefighters. When the fire alarm is triggered, it instantly alerts the fire brigade without providing any means to indicate that it's a false alarm. Consequently, the entire building is abruptly awakened even if there was just a bit of excessive but harmless smoke from the microwave or for a forgotten dood while showering. This situation is not only unexpected but also highly disruptive, especially considering that the contract I signed provided no indication of such a fire alarm structure. Moreover, it is also not efficient in terms of safaty given that it causes a lot of people not evacuating at all due to getting used to false alarmsIn this sense, the small dimension of studios is part of the problem. The fire alarms are positioned at significantly less than the typically recommended minimum threshold of 3 meters from cooking units to avoid false alarms, sometimes they are just around one meter from the stove/microwave.The dormitory management's response to the alarm issues has been far from ideal. In their communication they don't take responsibility for the situation because they claim that the hypersensitivity issues have already been solved time ago and they suggest that the alarm system is working well. However, they say that if you are cooking something that generates too much smoke you have to move to the common kitchen and open the window. The last month, in email communication, they shifted the blame onto individual tenants; this approach is not the most considerate towards customers that regularly pay high rentals and just increases the risk of tensions among tenants.Perhaps the most bewildering aspect of that is about penalties. The dorm claimed that the fire penalty charges them 6-7000 DKK for false alarms, and they said in an email that they were going to start recharging single tenants for fire brigade penalties. This is not outlined in the contracts and is strange to read, considering that the former Danish minister Carsten Hansen stated years ago that housing organizations cannot charge single tenants for blind alarms. The lack of clarity and the abrupt introduction of these charges are deeply concerning.I think that people should be warned about the place where they are going to live because it is not obvious to be in a situation like this one. A person that come to live here should not be scared while cooking because of the concern that slightly overcooking something or doing a minor non-hazardous distraction/mistake and causing the arrival of firefighters, the alert of all the tenants and possibly a 6000 dkk fine without any possibility of communicating the false alarm. It's not ok to come here without any expectation of this kind and finding yourself overblamed or even fined. While it's obviously important to be mindful while cooking to avoid safety hazards; in a long term tenance, a small non life threatening distraction like schorching something or generate a little too much smoke while the window is closed or forgetting to switching on a fan may happen and this shouldn't cause the automatic inevitable alert of the whole building and the firefighters as well as a fine that almost reaches the price of one month of rental. Or at least potential tenants should have been warned about these conditions before moving in.

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God hjælp til studerende.

Dorms might look ok in the pictures, but it's a very bad choice . The price is very expensive and the management does not care at all about students, trying to cheat them at every possible turn (taking advantage of international students not knowing the Danish law and that they are desperate for a place to stay). There is a reason there is not a single Danish student there.

Har slet ikke styr på hvad de laver. Kan ikke finde rundt i deres dokumenter, regninger. Er blevet bedt i 2 måneder om at betale for en andens regning selvom jeg ikke engang bor på stedet. Da jeg så kontaktede dem sagde de bare at det ikke var deres problem og at jeg selv skulle finde ud af det. Det er simpelthen bare for dårligt!

Sølv er blank og ædel.

wonderful place for international students :D, you got all what you need nearby

The residence is really nice with all the necessary facilities such as a washing machine and dryer room (it's about 20kr for the laundry machines). On each floor there is a common kitchen with ovens. The cleaning in these common areas need to be reviewed because the cleanliness is not the same for everyone apparently…The studios are well laid out with storage. the welcome pack with the duvet etc is so expensive as the sheets are very thin and of poor quality. The pillow is so uncomfortable. I don’t recommend it.The bonus point is the sharing is caring room which allows you to equip your studio with crockery etc. it is a room where you can drop off what you no longer want and collect things. But when there are many arrivals it is almost empty.There are events every month (parties, table tennis tournaments etc) which allows you to meet people.the residence is well located with cycle paths to get to town quickly and there is the Aldi (soon to be rema) and a cheaper Lidl 5min away.A downside, I had a problem with cupboard doors that fell on me several times which were not resolved but the maintenance agents came quickly.I returned my apartment in the same condition as I had it and I was able to recover my deposit. I haven’t charge for cleaning fees or other but the cleaning take me a lot of hours to be sure that everything is ok.The problem is the very high price, but when you can't find homestays, it's one of the only possible solutions for a short Erasmus stay, for example.