Your procedure for finding a Nachmieter?

Accomodation, House and Garden
1
So... I have a viewing scheduled for my apartment, and it looks to be fairly popular. I was wondering what other people have found to be the safest and most efficient way to process interest in your flat. Originally, I thought I would just have applicants send applications directly to the landlord, but then we won't know who applied and if they were solvent (to cover ourselves, in case they say there were none.)

Do you give applications to the applicants and tell them to return them to you? (you, as the original tenant.)

Do you have them send them directly to the agency? (when this is allowed, as is in our case.)

Or does anyone have something different they did that was successful?

Thank you in advance for your ideas.

2
I took their names and phone numbers and a when needed called them back to see if they had done an application/were still interested in the apartment.

3
That's a good idea. Thank you.

4
I asked them to send the formular to me as I also wanted to sell some furniture and they wanted to have it. Then I sent it to the Verwaltung and told them who my number 1 and 2 was. They picked my number 1.

5
Don't just let people view your apartment and then leave it up to them, because then you won't know what's going on.

To get yourself free from your contract, you need a letter from the prospective tenant(s) declaring that they are willing and able to take over your apartment and rental contract under the same the same conditions as you now have.

Here, from the tenants' association (Mieterverband) you can download the standard form for this, and get each interested party to sign.

https://www.mieterverband.ch/mv/miet...er-auszug.html The "Formular - Meldung von Nachmietern" is the declaration for seriously interested potential tenants to sign. The "Musterbrief - Meldung von Nachmietern" is the covering letter, for you to send to your landlord.

Please note that the landlord is not obliged to accept your suggested new tenants, and could freely disregard them and rent out to someone else of their own choosing, and that's all legal. However, as soon as you have provided the landlord with one (better two or three) tenants who, were they to be given the contract, would cause your landlord no disadvantage (e.g. that won't work if you are single and a bookworm and they have 5 children and a rockband), then the landlord must release you from the contract.