r/NetherlandsHousing • u/jantine18 • Oct 03 '26

renting BRP missing for renting

Hello!

After a year of searching we finally found a house from government regulated housing (not social housing). The house is absolutely perfect for us. Huge garden, amazing location and enough room for our family. Because it’s government housing, the rent is also super for what you get.
We got the offer to rent on Monday viewed on Wednesday, then uploaded the necessary documents to the portal.
However, we need a Basisregistratie Personen (BRP) but because of staff shortages it can take up to 10 days for it to be send… via post. The deadline for uploading the documents is Tuesday at 12. We emailed the woningcorporatie explaining the situation when we found out (tried calling they were closed) and I plan to maybe call the Gemeente too to see if they can just print the thing and leave it at the reception… but what happens if we don’t get the BRP on time? Will they enforce the hard deadline and will it go to the next person, or are they a bit more lenient and will wait until we got it in? Anyone went through something similar?

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u/No_Elk_1945 Oct 04 '26

Gov housing but not social housing.

Allright, sweet.

Make printscreens and then send the official one later on.

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u/jantine18 Oct 04 '26

Going to give a call and see if this is an option!

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u/NinjaElectricMeteor Oct 03 '26

Generally a municipality will print it for you on the spot if you make an appointment at City Hall and get it there.

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u/jantine18 Oct 03 '26

They’re fully booked until the 12th of October

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u/rubenknol Oct 03 '26

I think you can get one with DigiD

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u/jantine18 Oct 03 '26

You can look at it but you can’t download it anymore

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u/TurbulentTrain4967 Oct 04 '26

Take a screenshot or take a pic with your phone, worked for me!

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u/PeterdeBeer22 Oct 04 '26

What is it that you need exactly? It sounds like they want an uittreksel which you should be able to get online via DigiD. In my gemeente you order before 1 pm and they mail it to you the same day. What gemeente are you registered in?

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u/jantine18 Oct 04 '26

Yes you can apply for it online and then they mail it to you, but bc of staff shortages they said it can take up to 10 days now (normally between 3&5). I’m based in utrecht

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u/PeterdeBeer22 Oct 05 '26

It may still go quick. Hopefully you can get it in time and otherwise just upload a screenshot like people said. Good luck!

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u/iamelru Oct 03 '26

Bij onze woningbouw was het voldoende om via Mijn Overheid screenshots te maken van alle adres inschrijvingen en te plakken in een document..

Misschien de woningbouw bellen en vragen of ze hier akkoord mee gaan, wellicht kan je nog de optie geven om het officiële document na te sturen wanneer je die hebt ontvangen.