https://www.pararius.nl/appartement-te-huur/den-haag/f28c4ae0/teijlerstraat

https://www.pararius.nl/appartement-te-huur/arnhem/e6595cb6/marienburgstraat

Note: the written article buries the lede on some details that the video includes (in Dutch). Like how a certain tenant who has problems with eye contact is the one who made the discovery. And neither cover how that tenant shepherded Stichting !Woon every step of the way. But anyway, here's the English text:

Complaint filed against major student housing provider in Southeast for falsifying invoices

April 30, 2026, 7:00 AM · Updated May 1, 2026, 8:00 AM · By: AT5

The !Woon Foundation, together with sixty tenants, has filed a complaint against the landlord of a building containing hundreds of student apartments in Southeast Amsterdam. According to !Woon, the man falsified invoices for the settlement of service charges. The landlord denies the allegations.

In the converted office building, named HiCondo, 354 student rooms are rented out. The municipality had already imposed several orders subject to a penalty payment on the owner because he allegedly charged an excessive security deposit and unclear service costs. If nothing changed, he would have to pay 10,000 euros per violation.

The Rent Tribunal also ruled that tenants were to receive back a substantial portion of their paid service charges. The landlord appealed against this decision and submitted new invoices to demonstrate that, in his view, the costs were indeed legitimate.

However, according to Stichting !Woon, which represents sixty tenants in this case, those invoices are incorrect. A forensic firm hired by the foundation concluded that the invoices were created only after the time at which they are dated.

Incorrect suggestion created

One of those tenants was Thomas Miller from the United States. He lives here for a Master's in Psychology and moved into a new studio in Southeast six months ago. "Every day was frustrating. No maintenance, leaks, and mice. And having to pay a few hundred euros in extra service charges every year, without a clear explanation, felt very unfair. It's basically stealing with a few extra steps," he says. 

The landlord does not wish to comment on camera and believes that this matter is part of ongoing legal proceedings, the discussion of which belongs in the courtroom.

Full response HiCondo

HiCondo has taken note of the investigations and statements of Stichting !WOON regarding the service charge invoices.

The conclusions drawn by Stichting !WOON are part of ongoing legal proceedings. It is now up to us to respond to them substantively, which we will do.

We regret that Stichting !WOON did not submit its findings and conclusions to HiCondo in advance, so that we could have explained the factual course of events. Had this been done, Stichting !WOON would have reached different conclusions.

It is now up to us to set out the actual course of events in the ongoing legal proceedings and to share the relevant facts and circumstances with the judge, where this discussion belongs.

Finally, we note that HiCondo had no financial interest in the matters referred to. Unfortunately, the reporting appears to create that impression. That suggestion is incorrect, is expressly refuted by HiCondo, and HiCondo also regrets that Stichting !WOON did not first submit its conclusions to it.

Original post by u/UnamimousStargazer

Finally the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegegevens or AP) has updated their website and included a section on copies of ID-cards by real estate agents. This was reported to them multiple times, but they kept saying online real estate agents can make a copy of an ID-card, drivers license or passport. That was wrong. There is no need for a copy and the AP has now finally changed their website:

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Only if the monthly payment is very high, a copy can be made but I doubt that is true either as the Wwft-law does not require a copy only proof of identification (which can be anything).

I understand people who are desparate still supply copies, but please realize that copies of ID-cards, passports and drivers licenses can leak or be stolen. In severe cases it can lead to identity fraud. The Dutch police and public prosecutor assume the person who handed over the copy of an ID document was the person who rented a house if it turns out the house was used for the production of marihuana or synthetic drugs etc.

This is a real case that was dug up by two journalists to show the severity of the combination of ID fraud and lazy/dumb prosecution by the authorities:

https://dit.eo.nl/artikel/boudewijn-belandt-bijna-in-de-cel-nadat-zijn-handtekening-wordt-vervalst-ik-stond-moederziel-alleen-in-de-overtuiging-dat-ik-de-waarheid-sprak

In summary your life is severely turned upside down: you're stuck repairing identity fraud for years and years and might even end up in jail because the prosecutor and judge think you committed a crime. Repairing that is more or less impossible if the judgment is not appealable as the Supreme Court requires a new fact. Without a new fact, the sentence stays final even if you are innocent.

We as a society need to stand up against the large scale copying of passports etc. and write politicians an e-mail that the laws need to change. We need to make clear that large scale copying of ID documents by employers and what have you is dangerous, as those copies will leak at some moment of time. But worse: there is absolutely no need to store them. A simple bank transfer of € 0,01 over and forth is enough to proof your identity as the bank already registered your identity. Banks even offer a special identity check called iDIN. That is much better than copies of IDs.