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Guarantor requirement — as a foreigner with no local credit history, how does this even work?

Yuki Tanaka ⭐ Helpful member
14 May 2026, 10:25

Every apartment listing I like wants a local guarantor, which is obviously a problem when you've been in the country for two weeks and know precisely nobody. Is there an actual workaround for this, or am I stuck only looking at the small subset of listings that don't ask for one?

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Anna Kowalski ⭐ Helpful member
29 Jun 2026, 08:58

Tomasz — looked into that myself, at least where I am it wasn’t restricted to students specifically, worth checking locally.