Becoming a landlord in Poland.

Hello, I would like to become a landlord and I was now wondering what is the hardest with the job?

I´ve heard that you have to have extra apartments to let people live in who have been evicted? Is this true and how does it work in detail?

I would also appreciate if someone has a link to this type of law so I can read more.

Also do people pay their rent, is it really that hard to kick someone out if you have an agreement they signed on in the beginning?

Thank you in advance!

My advice is not to try to become an absentee landlord in Poland unless you're very fluent in Polish and understand how the culture and legal system work.

I'm not sure if it's still the case but it used to be that you could not evict a person without offering alternate accomodation at a similar level.

Housing laws are partially a legacy of the fact that Poland suffered from a terrible, terrible housing shortage for decades. This was caused by the destruction of a lot of housing stock in WWII and communist incompetence in building housing afterward (and the communists used the shortage as a form of social control). It affected people's lives the same way that natural disasters do in other countries.

The questions you're asking indicate you're not ready for Poland. Maybe try Sweden or a neighboring country first...

Don't put any money toward being a landlord in Poland unless you're willing to lose it and not be upset.

There are practically no homeless people living on the streets in Poland. Among others because tenants cannot be evicted from the premises even if they do not pay rent, unless they have alternative premises. Often, in order to get rid of an old "irremovable" tenant, the owner offers them compensation in the amount of, for example, a year's rent, even if they have not paid for months.

@mafketis
Okey, then I know. But one could become ready then, by your own logic you say?

Investing in a neighbouring country or my own is too expensive for me, i cant do that.

Knowing the legal system, what do you mean then? That everything has to be completely documented with safety every step you go?

@Alien
What Ive heard you just have to have a good contract and sure the extra accomodation.

Not necessarily, my real estate broker simply offered a few apartments from his portfolio as he was "clearing" the house of tenants for sale. That was enough.

@Alien
Okey, so he evicted them with ease then you say?

with great luck would be the appropriate word.

More than you'd think in Warsaw. The homeless shelters are full and the station at night has a lot of homeless. In winter many freeze to death.

Plus there's a lot of "hidden homelessness" with people sleeping on sofa beds in living rooms or sharing a room with another adult to whom they're not in a relationship.

In short, life in Poland under the Eurocrat Tusk.

They still don't live on the street.

Many do.

And sleeping in the station or the top of a stairwell in a block of flats is the same thing.

Sleeping in a bed at a homeless shelter is still homelessness, as is sleeping on the floor somewhere.

But only Warsaw ime.... and even then restricted to certain areas (esp a square kilometer or two radiating out from Centralna).

They exist in other cities but in much smaller numbers... where I live a problem in winter is getting them into homeless shelters (which have unused beds) because they can't drink....


That's in a lot of places... years ago I saw a documentary on homeless women who weren't officially counted as such (couchsurfing among friends, living in a care, that kind of thing) and these were women who had been middle to upper middle class (so they didn't qualify for any kind of social help). Rough.....

That's sad enough to see. Warsaw is a problem for housing; the city has sold off social housing and yet the numbers of homeless grow despite the high winter death rate.

There should be more wet hostels especially since drinkers aren't going to easily stop. About przytulaki, many now have permanent or semi-permanent residents thus reducing the possibilities for rough sleepers.


I'd say the numbers are huge in PL of people in that situation.

Certainly less in the whole of Poland than in London itself, not to mention the USA. Last year I didn't see any in Katowice, Wrocław, Szczecin, Legnica and several smaller cities.

I wouldn't trust the stats from PL and London has been fighting homelessness for centuries; fortunately the weather is milder and far fewer freeze to death than in Warsaw every year.

In summer, the woods near me on the banks of the Vistula are full of people sleeping rough.


They were probably sheltering somewhere, not that people without a home wear a badge to say they're homeless or are all visible alkies.