Hello, dear neighbors. It's about 1,5 years since we moved to Bulgaria (my family and 2 more couples, our close friends). We live in rental apartments (our friends) and at rental house (my family). 2/3 of us had a problem with lendlords.
All that I write here is my own experience, if yours is better - you are lucky
The main problem here is to get back your deposit. As usual lendlord already spent money you gave as deposit so If you want to re-sign the rental agreement it's ok but if you want to rent another apartment - it's almost impossible to get your money back especially if you paid 2 rental amounts as our friends did.
I'll not write all details here, it's a long stories, each of them, but the fact is that you can do nothing, yes, you have the agreement (signed, with the correct amounts etc) but landlord doesn't have money so you just rent another place and trying to get your money back, with un-answered calls, with сancelled meetings, with a lot of reasons why you will not get your money back (you found out that you left ruined property and it's your fault). So you was a perfect partner when you paid your rent exactly in time, fixed small problems like not-working AC, but as soon as you decided to move to another place - you are the enemy #1.
So please find below my small black list of landlords we had bad fortune to met here. If you have somebody to add to this list - just share your experience.
We lost money and time with that people, hope that my posting will be helpful for others. Especially for new expats.
1. House in Vinitsa for rent, it's also on sale. Situated on Cherno More street, house doesn't have the administrative address, so you can't get the registration there (landlord promised to get it but didn't, he also decided to continue the agreement for the next year if we'll pay 2 more deposits (we already paid one actually)
Landlord - Ognyan Kasabav.
2. Our friends still hoping to get their deposit back so they asked not to put landlord's name here right now but it's 3 beedrooms apartment near Chataldzha, rental price is 750 leva, it also has the stove on balcony lol