Two Amsterdam tenants had great success in reporting their landlord to the Huurcommissie rent tribunal for charging them exorbitant rent. The Huurcommissie ordered the landlord to lower the rent for a small, leaky, drafty room on Keizersgracht from 1,950 euros to temporarily 95 euros per month. The rent for another room in the same building was lowered from 1,200 euros to temporarily 93 euros.
It’s Cees van Leeuwen. Someone went into a lot of detail about him in this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amsterdam/comments/19auxx5/tales_from_the_huurcommissie_4_the_poor_landlord/
And his bullshit has been covered in the news before:
https://archive.ph/b1Lbr#selection-1009.139-1009.155
God damn that was a depressing read.
Right? Dude is ridiculous.