Guides for tenants
Your rights and the written steps to take, explained problem by problem, under Swiss tenancy law and your canton’s practice.
Tenants Zurich
Defects and repairs
- Housing defects in Zurich: damp, heating, repairs
Damp, faulty heating or repairs left undone in your flat in Zurich?
Noise and neighbours
- Noisy neighbour in Zurich: what to do concretely
A noisy neighbour in Zurich?
The property manager and letters
- Conciliation Commission of Zurich: pitfalls, steps and contact
In the canton of Zurich, tenancy disputes go first to the conciliation authority (Schlichtungsbehörde) of the district where the dwelling is located; in the city of Zurich, the Mietgericht und Schlichtungsbehörde of the Bezirksgericht Zürich.
- Landlord not responding in Zurich: how to react
Your landlord or property manager does not respond to your requests in Zurich?
General guides
- Tenants in the canton of Zurich: rights, steps and solutions
As a tenant in the canton of Zurich, you have clear rights when your landlord does not respond, a defect is not repaired or a neighbour is too noisy.