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For the benefit of Mr. Kite
Jun. 9th, 2006 04:36 pmOh, golly am I tired. And really hungry. I guess just eating Malt-o-Meal for lunch wasn't really the right idea. Go me.
I spent half an hour on the phone yesterday with the broker for this house rental in Copake Falls. It's a fantastic house, but I got a half-hour lecture on how big of a risk it is to rent to four youngsters, and how much do we make and what if we throw wild parties and what if Mya falls in love with Tyler, and then the landlord will have shotgun holes in the walls to deal with, and who does he go after if we can't pay the rent and they'd really prefer a couple (in a 3bd house...) or a family, and we're four people so we'll do much more laundry and use the dishwasher more than any other dynamic (oh, yeah, we'll definitely do more laundry than a couple with kids...), and that puts wear and tear on the appliances and on the well but he's a nice guy and he's been in real estate for 50 years, so he's not going to say "no," exactly, and I sound like a nice kid and I have a career and they've rented to people with no credit or anything before... they just had to put down a deposit of $10,000. So maybe a situation like that would work? Except that maybe we should pay a little bit more rent, since there's so many of us, and maybe we should be able to pay, like 9 months' rent as a deposit, and do we even have that kind of money?
Oh, but what's my last name? Oh, that's an interesting name. Mennonite? Are you Mennonite? Are your friends Mennonite? Oh, that's a shame, maybe the rent would be less if you were. Haha!
Uh. Yeah.
So, is he really a jerk, or will he come to his senses if he realizes that we're really actually boring homebodies who want someplace quiet and want to have a garden and don't actually have any friends to have wild parties with, anyway? And if we meet with him, will he actually realize this, or just see that we're young and try to take advantage of us? Because Brixton is absolutely right in her indignation at the prospect of having to live someplace shitty just because landlords don't think we're nice enough, when they don't even know us.
I don't want to have this conversation with everyone I call about an apartment. That's absurd. We're quiet, we come with references, our household income is about $90,000 a year, and, oh yeah, A LEASE IS A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT. That's your recourse right there, poopy-head. Oh, and BTW, stop calling me "honey."
But I'm not going to fret about it. I'm going to go help Carolyn dye her hair tonight, then see Sean Rowe play in Saratoga. Tomorrow I will try to take my bike in to the shop, and either drive up to Lake Placid with Carolyn that night or on Sunday at, like, 5am to get there in time for her race.
the hedge abides.
I spent half an hour on the phone yesterday with the broker for this house rental in Copake Falls. It's a fantastic house, but I got a half-hour lecture on how big of a risk it is to rent to four youngsters, and how much do we make and what if we throw wild parties and what if Mya falls in love with Tyler, and then the landlord will have shotgun holes in the walls to deal with, and who does he go after if we can't pay the rent and they'd really prefer a couple (in a 3bd house...) or a family, and we're four people so we'll do much more laundry and use the dishwasher more than any other dynamic (oh, yeah, we'll definitely do more laundry than a couple with kids...), and that puts wear and tear on the appliances and on the well but he's a nice guy and he's been in real estate for 50 years, so he's not going to say "no," exactly, and I sound like a nice kid and I have a career and they've rented to people with no credit or anything before... they just had to put down a deposit of $10,000. So maybe a situation like that would work? Except that maybe we should pay a little bit more rent, since there's so many of us, and maybe we should be able to pay, like 9 months' rent as a deposit, and do we even have that kind of money?
Oh, but what's my last name? Oh, that's an interesting name. Mennonite? Are you Mennonite? Are your friends Mennonite? Oh, that's a shame, maybe the rent would be less if you were. Haha!
Uh. Yeah.
So, is he really a jerk, or will he come to his senses if he realizes that we're really actually boring homebodies who want someplace quiet and want to have a garden and don't actually have any friends to have wild parties with, anyway? And if we meet with him, will he actually realize this, or just see that we're young and try to take advantage of us? Because Brixton is absolutely right in her indignation at the prospect of having to live someplace shitty just because landlords don't think we're nice enough, when they don't even know us.
I don't want to have this conversation with everyone I call about an apartment. That's absurd. We're quiet, we come with references, our household income is about $90,000 a year, and, oh yeah, A LEASE IS A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT. That's your recourse right there, poopy-head. Oh, and BTW, stop calling me "honey."
But I'm not going to fret about it. I'm going to go help Carolyn dye her hair tonight, then see Sean Rowe play in Saratoga. Tomorrow I will try to take my bike in to the shop, and either drive up to Lake Placid with Carolyn that night or on Sunday at, like, 5am to get there in time for her race.
the hedge abides.
