Humij B.V.

The company was founded in 1984 and specializes in the development and management of housing for experimental living arrangements. Since 1992, we have been managing a complex with 15 specialized shared homes with studio rooms on the outskirts of De Pijp and the Amstel River. These homes are fully furnished with all laundry, drying, cooking, and cleaning equipment.

Since 2018, we have been managing apartments in Holland Park and Haarlem-West, where 2 households or a group of up to 4 adults can live together. These homes are rented fully furnished.
Since 2022, we also manage private sector apartments in South Limburg for 2 partners without children. No shared homes.

In the homes we manage, short-term renting, subletting, and operating as a B&B are not allowed.

The shared homes in the Amsterdam region have 2 or 3 bathrooms, 1 main kitchen, and additional kitchenettes where each co-tenant can wash dishes and store food, dishes, and pots. You are NOT allowed to cook in separate rooms by order of the Municipality of Amsterdam. Cooking must be done in the shared kitchen area.

The Municipality of Amsterdam is very repressive," implying that the municipality strictly enforces its rules, sometimes with force or without leniency.

They send teams to inspect homes, and they can enter homes and rooms without your consent. They assess at their discretion whether you are dividing a property into separate living units and are no longer living together as a group.

If a room has a shower and toilet, the Municipality of Amsterdam only allows you to reheat prepared food and make hot drinks such as tea and coffee. A kettle and coffee maker are the maximum allowed by the Municipality of Amsterdam. A microwave or air fryer is considered cooking equipment by the Municipality of Amsterdam.

You are NEVER allowed to use an electric stove in the room.
You will never have both your own sanitation and your own cooking facilities.
You are NOT renting a (non-independent) self-contained living space in a shared home in this complex.

Only under these conditions, a maximum of 4 people can live together in these 16 apartments, provided they do not belong to the same family.
You share 1 rental agreement with 2, 3, or 4 co-tenants. Each co-tenant is jointly responsible for the rental terms.
Because you share the rental agreement and the address, your living costs are lower.
Your living costs per person, including furniture, appliances, and your energy, water, internet, service charges, and local taxes (Waterschap and Waste Disposal), range from €725,00 to €1.000,00, depending on how many people share the costs.

You and your co-tenants will make agreements on who pays what share of the total living costs.
You will also make agreements on who signs contracts with various suppliers and who pays the local tenant taxes.
These include the Waste Disposal Tax and the Waterschap Tax.

Residents sharing an apartment choose their co-residents and determine who sleeps where and who contributes what share to the living costs.
The co-tenants will formalize these agreements in a shared accommodation agreement.
With the landlord, the co-tenants will sign a joint rental agreement each time there is a change in tenants. All co-tenants must sign this agreement.
The owner has a veto right and can reject nominated candidates if they do not earn enough salary to cover the living costs.
The owner can also reject candidates if there is a suspicion that one of the co-tenants is using the property in violation of government regulations, if there is short-term stay (less than 24 months), or if the workplace is not located in the Amsterdam region.

1- Explanation of the selection procedure:

If you do not read the published text and do not answer the 15 questions by email, you will not be considered as a candidate. The Municipality of Amsterdam requires co-tenants to nominate candidates to the owner. The candidates will have an interview with the co-tenants. The selected candidates must first read the rental agreement with the specifications and the Amsterdam regulations on Shared Housing. Only candidates who confirm by email that they understand the content and accept all rental conditions and specific rules of the Municipality of Amsterdam will be selected.

2- Specific information about Amsterdam Housing Regulations and Shared Housing Rules:

Please note that these rooms are NOT private rooms with their own rental agreement. If the room has a shower + toilet + a pantry with a sink for washing dishes and pots, it is NOT a private one-room studio apartment, as you do not have permission to cook inside this room.
In all cases, you must respect that the room is part of ONE shared apartment with co-tenants who have access to a spare set of keys that can open all doors with locks. If you do not accept this condition, you are acting against Amsterdam Housing Regulations, and the municipality will impose a fine of €18.700,00 on each co-tenant, as well as the property owner.
We know that people often do not understand their duties under the specific Amsterdam Housing Regulations, but this property owner informs all candidates and co-tenants about their obligations to follow the municipal housing rules and the rental conditions.
In this complex, the apartments have permission from the Administrative Court of the Netherlands to allow a maximum of 4 people to live and register in the Population Register, under 3 conditions.
However, the apartments are not permitted to be misused by tenants and divided into multiple (studio) apartments with their own toilet, own shower/bath, and own kitchen with cooking facilities.
All co-tenants are required to register in the Population Register. The departing co-tenant must deregister. Be aware that, without a specific permit, Dutch law does not allow more than 2 adults to live together at 1 address, unless the people are family and form 1 household.
These homes in the Holendrechtstraat complex have historic rights and permission for 3 and 4 people who are not family and do not want to form 1 household to legally share the home together and legally register.

3- Criteria:

No students, no temporary contracts, no interns. Not under 24 years of age, no smoking, no vaping, no pets. Secure employment for the next 24 months and a NET salary of €2.400,00 or €2.700.00, depending on the share of the gross rent to be paid. Deposit €1.000,00 to €1.800,00.
All rooms have a laminate floor and second-hand furniture: bed, wardrobe, table, chairs. Mattress available upon request. It is preferred that you organize your own mattress.
The landlord does not provide dishes, pots, cutlery, or cooking equipment.
Co-tenants share one communal kitchen with a sink, gas stove, and washing machine with a maximum of 3 co-tenants. If the toilet, bathroom, or cooking equipment in the shared space is occupied, you may use the 2nd and 3rd toilet and shower in the other rooms. All co-tenants may also use an extra stove in a 2nd room if the shared kitchen is occupied, provided that you clean the facilities after use.
Several rooms have an additional sink with a countertop to wash dishes, plus an additional fridge and cupboards to store food, dishes, and pots. The electrical installation in these rooms is not intended for cooking food. Co-tenants may not use the sink to cook.
Most rooms are furnished with a bed (mattress available upon request), sofa, table, chairs, wardrobe, lighting, laminate floor, curtains or blinds, and fridge.
The internet is shared via WIFI. Heating is with a boiler and radiators in each room. Each apartment has its own meters for gas and electricity. The tenants can choose their own energy supplier, internet provider, and cleaning service.
The landlord does not provide cooking equipment per resident, as this would no longer meet the conditions of the Municipality of Amsterdam to share the address with more than 2 people.
Co-tenants organize their own washing machine, dryer, cooking equipment, cleaning supplies, repairs to appliances, furniture, and general maintenance.
All apartments have the highest insulation level A++ with 2 window frames of standard double glazing PLUS H++ glazing = 4 layers of glass. This allows you to keep the rooms at +19°C without heating the radiator. You save a lot on energy costs. You use less than 150 m³ of gas per year, mainly for showering and cooking. Perfect location with high WOZ value and no traffic noise.
Additional housing costs to be paid to the administrator: Furniture/equipment + cleaning of the stairwell.
Additional housing costs to be paid by one of the co-tenants (to share): Local taxes €80,00 + internet €40,00-60,00 + fixed energy costs €35,00 + advance payment for energy consumption €135,00-180,00 + lease for washing machine/dryer €16,00-30,00 + tap water 4-5 units €20,00-22,00.
In the case of a change, co-tenants negotiate the amount they will ask a new co-tenant to pay as part of their total monthly expenses.
Tenants are required to sign a shared accommodation agreement, including information on what each person should pay as part of the net rent + deposit + additional costs to the administrator + other costs paid by one of the co-tenants.

4- Before you receive an invitation for an interview with the people sharing this 4-room apartment, you must email the answers to the 15 questions:

1- Does your job not end within 24 months?
2- Is your net salary after Dutch income tax higher than three times the gross share?
3- What date did you first move to the Netherlands?
4- Who is your employer and what are the start and end dates of your employment contract? 5- Is your workplace located in the Amsterdam region?
6- Are your working hours full-time +36 hours per week?
7- What type of accommodation do you currently have? Shared bathroom, shared kitchen, or a private apartment with your own facilities, and what is the start date of the current rental agreement?
8- Why do you want to move to this 15 m² room in this shared apartment complex in Holendrechtstraat?
9- Did you understand that this is a shared housing system with shared bathrooms and toilets with co-tenants? And that you share a communal kitchen space with co-tenants?
10- Did you understand that you will not receive a private rental agreement for 1 room, but will share the rental agreement with co-tenants, and each person is personally responsible for the rental conditions? This is Dutch law!!!
11- Did you understand that co-tenants decide which room each person will sleep in and how much each person will pay of the total gross rent (net rent + local taxes + internet, energy network, energy consumption, water network, water consumption + cleaning service inside)? This is not rent per room. This is ILLEGAL in the Netherlands.
12- What is your age + nationality?
13- Do you smoke, vape, or use any kind of drugs?
14- Are you willing to clean the equipment and dishes after cooking and store them in the cupboards?
15- Are you willing to clean your own room once a week, vacuuming without dust, grease, or items on the floor, and clean the shared kitchen + shared bathroom + shared toilet once a week? Without periodic cleaning, tensions may arise between co-tenants.