Two pensioners have been living in their cars for a year. The couple cannot find an apartment, so their VW Touareg is currently their home. The couple is desperate.
- A couple has been living in their car for a year.
- The two pensioners cannot find an apartment.
- The couple also has a guess as to why.
Kempten - A couple has been living in their car for a year because they cannot find an apartment. The back seat is full of clothes and blankets - that's why both have to sleep while sitting, as the picture reports.
Pensioners have to get out of the apartment - now they live in the car
Two years ago, pensioners * Eberhard and Magda moved out of a mold house. "It smelled like we had a body in the basement. I got an extreme rash from the mold. The landlord, the Ottobeuren monastery, however, did not want to renovate, ”they told the newspaper.
The couple then cut the rent by 500 euros. In September 2017, the bailiff was at the door with the police . The pensioners had to leave their homes. For a year they lived on the money from life insurance and lived in holiday apartments, as the picture continues.
Couple lives in SUV: they cannot find a new apartment
“We didn't want to apply for Harz IV . We thought we could get out of there, ”Eberhard told the newspaper. But then the money ran out, since then they have been living in their SUV. So far, the couple had no luck looking for a new apartment. The supposed reason: fighting dog Qinn.
The pensioners have registered on over 50 apartment listings, but no one would take them with their dog: “Few landlords answer at all and if we do, we should give our Qinn to the shelter or have it put to sleep straight away. Before we do that, we prefer to live in the car forever, ”says Eberhard der Bild.
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Pensioners live in their car: couple cannot find a new apartment - because of a dog
To protect the battery in their car, they only switch on the auxiliary heater every two to three hours at night: “Otherwise we will freeze to death. It's freezing cold in the car, ”explains Eberhard. The 63-year-old previously had his own physical practice, Magda (70) was a branch manager in a fashion store. The couple also ran a sheepdog breed for 40 years, as the picture reports.
With your VW Touareg you are in a public parking lot. They afford to spend one night in the apartment every six weeks. “We can sleep through it and take a shower,” Magda tells the picture. 780 euros of social benefits are available to the couple every month. The majority goes away for fuel and dog Qinn, because it eats two kilos of compound feed - per day. For the couple, their dog goes first: “We get food from the supermarket, sometimes something from the hot bar, sometimes just a pretzel. Our Qinni would rather have something to eat, ”the picture quotes the 70-year-old.
Pensioners move to Allgäu for family: contact with son breaks off
The contact to their son has broken off, they have never seen the second grandson. The couple moved from Austria to Allgäu in 2016 to be closer to the family. "Now we only have ourselves," sums up the couple in the picture .
Alina (26) and Leon (21) also lived in the car - then they had enough of Upper Bavaria, as Merkur.de * reports. A 34-year-old Tölzer has been homeless for almost two years and mostly lives in his car. He cannot find an apartment, even though he works full time and could pay some rent. (Merkur.de *)
A 60-year-old employee wants to inquire about her pension benefits and seek advice from the German Pension Insurance. With a sobering result. *
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.