Well, I don't really know what to say. It's just a regular apartment, by German standards. :)
When I moved in, the owner had just refurbished everything a bit (as they always do when a new tenant moves in). The ingrain wallpaper [1] on the walls and ceiling painted plain white, the linoleum [2] floors freshly cleaned, and the jambs of the interior doors had been replaced by new ones. If you don't know what linoleum looks and feels like, imagine a typical office floor, but with a faux parquet pattern instead of these generic blue-green-grayish dot patterns. The linoleum shows a bit of wear (you can see where the previous tenant had put their furniture), but I don't mind.
Apart from that, I've got radiators (connected to district heating) in both rooms, water and sewer pipes leading into the kitchen (but the kitchen furniture and plumbing needs to be supplied by the tenant), and a fully-furnitured bathroom with tiling all around, toilet, sink and bathtub. If anything from that list should ever break, I call the landlord and a craftsman will be on site to fix it the next day or so, at their cost.
That's the state if the building is well-maintained. Some of these "Plattenbauten" (German for large-panel system buildings) have been privatized and sold to investors. These are usually the only ones which haven't gotten a makeover since the iron curtain came down. Rent is about the same, though. The situation is better for me since my apartment is owned by a housing cooperative which dates back to GDR times. They don't have to pay any interest or dividend, so all the money can go into maintenance, modernization, and sometimes new construction when they can get their hands on a nice plot of land.
