Suchbemühungen
Suchbemühungen is the tenant side of our two tenancy-law platforms. It helps tenants who wish to terminate their tenancy agreement early to document the search efforts for a successor required under Art. 264 of the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR) in a complete and evidence-secure manner. The platform is fully separated organisationally and operationally from Trygva, our landlord platform.
Documentation of search efforts under Art. 264 OR for tenants seeking accommodation.
Suchbemühungen solves a narrowly defined but, for many tenants, delicate problem: anyone wishing to terminate a tenancy agreement early must offer the landlord a reasonable successor, or demonstrate without gap that the search for one was conducted in earnest. If this demonstration fails, the tenant remains liable to pay until the ordinary termination date. The platform structures this demonstration so that it stands up before the conciliation authority and the court.
For whom
The platform is aimed at tenants in Switzerland who must terminate their tenancy early — for instance because of a work-related move, a separation or an unexpected family event. It is also used by Swiss tenancy lawyers who guide their clients through this process.
What it does
- Capture of the contractual position and the targeted termination date as starting point
- Templates for advertising a successor tenancy on Swiss platforms
- Complete documentation of every individual enquiry from prospective tenants, with date, timestamp and reaction status
- Handover package for the landlord that prepares all relevant prospects with creditworthiness indicators
- Export format for conciliation authorities and courts with chain of evidence
- Available in German, with planned extensions for French and Italian along Swiss multilingualism
Why it exists
The topic of search efforts is regularly documented incorrectly or incompletely in Swiss tenancy practice. Tenants lose money as a result, landlords receive unusable handovers, and conciliation authorities have to close gaps in the evidence. The platform turns an unstructured email collection into a traceable dossier.
Ethical separation
We also operate the landlord side of the same topic with Trygva. Both platforms run in separate data sets, with separate teams for operational support and with separate external communications. We make this separation public because it is part of the substance of both products.
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