My negative Experience in 2025 with the Landlord Peter Vandebuerie from Belgium. He is the owner of a studio in the old Danubia Beach Hotel in Widin (39, Purva str., Tsar Simeonovo 3700 Bulgaria). He rents out the studio through the local real estate agency „Suprimmo“.

The owner Peter Vandebueri handed over the rental agreement without an original signature, although he must have known that a contract without an original signature would not be recognised. He had only scanned and printed out the tenancy agreement and sent it by email to his agency Suprimmo. The notary’s office did not want to notarise this rental agreement and the authorities did not recognise it either. I asked the owner for a correct rental contract and his support so that I could fulfil my obligations (registration of the rental contract). I waited 13 days for a response from Peter Vandebueri, but he did not reply. I kindly offered him to cancel the contract if he felt it was not worth the effort.

I then asked him to cancel the rental contract by mutual agreement. Although the email clearly mentions cancellation, Peter Vandebueri said that the contract had not been cancelled but stopped. He obviously did this in order to withhold my rent and deposit. By the Way, I also never received the keys to his studio, although I was previously told that I could collect them from the agency’s office Suprimmo. When I went to collect the keys, I was told they had to be collected from a resident of the apartment block. However, the resident was nowhere to be found, so I had to drive back and take a hotel…