Last updated: August 2026
Student in the Netherlands ("we", "us", "our") is an advisory service operated by Milan Magyar and Andrei Alexandru Nita, helping international students navigate their move to the Netherlands. We can be reached at studentinthenetherlands@gmail.com.
These Terms of Use apply specifically to the Housing Search service ("the Service"). The Service is a separate, standalone offering from The Program — it is not a Program offer or a reduced version of it. Our general Terms of Service govern The Program and the Student Income Program. Where these Terms of Use are silent on a matter, our general Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply in addition.
By purchasing the Service, you agree to these Terms of Use. Please read them carefully before completing your purchase.
Housing Search is our service for students moving to Groningen who need help finding rental housing. On your behalf, we:
Every property we put forward falls within the minimum requirements you give us at the start of your search. The final decision on any property, including whether to sign a rental contract, is always yours.
We do not guarantee that we will find you housing, nor do we guarantee a specific outcome, price, location, property type, or timeframe. The Service is advisory and search assistance, carried out with genuine effort on our part, but it does not constitute a promise of results.
We begin actively searching for properties on your behalf as soon as your first payment is received and cleared. No search activity takes place before payment.
Based on our past experience, most searches take 45 to 60 days from the first payment. This is heavily dependent on your requirements: the more specific or restrictive your budget, location, move-in date, or other conditions, the longer the search is likely to take.
This timeframe is a good-faith estimate only. It is not a guaranteed or contractual deadline, and it does not create any obligation on our part to secure housing within that window. Your rights under Section 8 (Refund Policy) are not affected by whether this estimate is met.
All payments are processed securely through Stripe. We do not store your card details. By completing a purchase, you agree to Stripe's Terms of Service in addition to ours.
The Service is paid for in two parts:
Only one second payment will ever be requested per placement, matched to whichever housing type is secured, never the highest tier by default. All prices are in Euros (EUR) and inclusive of applicable taxes unless stated otherwise.
Your search with us is active from the moment your first payment clears until either a rental contract is signed for a home you keep, or the engagement ends under Section 8 (Refund Policy).
While your search with us is active, it does not matter who found the property. If you sign a rental contract for any rental home during that time, whether we found it, introduced it to you, or you found it entirely on your own, the second payment becomes due for that housing type, exactly as set out in Section 5.
There are only two situations in which the second payment is not owed:
Outside of these two situations, the second payment is always due once you have secured housing, regardless of how it was found.
Once you sign a rental contract for a rental property while your search with us is active (see Section 6), you become contractually obligated to pay the second payment. It is due within 14 days of the date the rental contract is signed. We will send an invoice to your registered email address once we are made aware that a contract has been signed.
You agree to inform us promptly once you sign any rental contract during your search with us, whether or not we found the property, so that this deadline can be tracked accurately.
Non-payment penalty. If the second payment is not made within 14 days of the contract signing date, the following consequences apply:
This clause is a material part of the agreement between you and Student in the Netherlands, and by purchasing the Service you explicitly acknowledge and accept these terms. The purpose of this clause is to protect the time, effort, and resources invested by our team in finding and securing your housing.
No-results refund. If 30 days have passed since your first payment and no rental contract has been signed, you may request a full refund of your first payment at any time after that point, for as long as no rental contract has been signed. Requesting this refund is entirely optional and at your sole discretion — you are welcome to keep working with us past the 30-day mark without requesting one. Once a refund is issued, we stop searching on your behalf and this agreement ends.
This refund option no longer applies once you have signed a rental contract for any rental property — at that point, Section 7 (Second Payment Deadline & Non-Payment Penalty) governs instead.
Statutory right of withdrawal. Under Dutch and EU consumer law, online purchases of services ordinarily come with a 14-day right of withdrawal. By purchasing the Service, you explicitly request that we begin performing it — actively searching on your behalf — immediately, before that 14-day period has expired, as described in Section 3. You acknowledge that once the Service has been fully performed (a signed rental contract has been secured), your statutory right of withdrawal no longer applies. If the Service has not yet been fully performed, the no-results refund above sets out your rights.
Outside of the cases described in this Section, payments made under the Service are non-refundable.
By using the Service, you agree to:
Any materials, guides, or communications we provide as part of the Service remain the intellectual property of Student in the Netherlands and are for your personal use only. You may not reproduce, distribute, or share them with others without our written permission.
The Service is advisory and search-assistance in nature. We provide effort and expertise based on our experience with the Groningen rental market, but we cannot guarantee that housing will be found, nor the price, quality, or condition of any property, nor the conduct of any landlord or agency we introduce you to.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Student in the Netherlands shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including but not limited to housing loss, financial loss, or delays in your move.
Our total liability to you shall not exceed the total amount you have paid us under the Service.
The Service relies on third-party providers, including:
We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or terms of these third-party services. Your use of them is subject to their respective terms and privacy policies.
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Any disputes arising from or relating to these terms or the Service shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Netherlands.
If you are an EU consumer, you also have the right to use the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. We will notify existing Housing Search customers of material changes via email. Continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at studentinthenetherlands@gmail.com.