Rental nightmares in Hungary

Only rented a flat for 6 weeks back in 2000 while on holiday.

Found an add in a local Hungarian newspaper for a short term rental available in the 5th district.

My husband speaks Hungarian and handled the details.

No issues although the flat was sort of dirty, a bunch of old returnable bottles were in the kitchen.

We left it there thinking she can deal with it herself; I was on holiday and not going to be cleaning up her former tenants mess.

She rented out to students mostly and we did her a favor renting in a off season.

Rented a villa through a HU friend of a friend also in 2000 for 5 months.

It was a quiet and peaceful but a strange thing happened once.

Our young adult son was alone one day while we were out.

2 or 3 men we did not know just walked in!

Not sure if the onwer had planned to rob us when we were not home or what was going on.

They were surprised to find our son in the living room watching tv;

They made up a lame excuse that they came for the fire poker, took it     and left!

IDK,be sure to use a reliable rental agent to rent anything. Read the contract twice!