Hello, again. Long time no blog. Alright, so if I remember correctly, the last time I left off, I hadn’t yet found an apartment, and things were looking a little down. Well that seems as good a place to start back in as any other. Shortly after those first few days of looking, as I believe I mentioned, I had finally found an apartment, and the landlord had finally agreed to have me as a tenant! It was beautiful. It still didn’t make up for the 5 straight days of looking at terrible houses that cost a fortune, but hey, at least I was getting somewhere. Well, at least I thought I was. Turns out that night, which was a Thursday night, when I was supposed to sign the contract, the landlord decided that instead of renting their apartment to a “stupid, not-enough-like-me foreigner”(ßI’m guessing at her thought processes here)—she would rent it to a “close friend” at the last possible second and not tell me about it till the next day. Again, this is just conjecture, but this is how I believe her sudden change of heart unfolded that day:
(Scene)
sometime Thursday afternoon.
Landlord:(pacing back and forth in stubborn angst, thinking to herself) AH CRAP! I can’t believe I actually have to rent my precious apartment to this stupid, dirty foreigner! Woe be unto me! I must find a way to thwart this foreign invader!
(suddenly, the phone rings)
Some random person: (on the other line) Sorry, I think this is the wrong number…
Landlord: (realizing an opportunity, she quickly replies) NO! WAIT! DON’T GO! Do you like apartments, mister???
The guy on the phone: Umm..i don’t know. I guess…
Landlord: AMAZING!! I will give you mine right now! FOR FREE!!! Anything to deny this foreigner a place to stay, and at the same time make him feel out of place in a foreign land! I am EVIL!!!!
The guy on the phone: ok.
(End scene)
I assume that’s how it happened, anyway. But yeah, the next day I resumed my look for an apartment, but this time with a new real-estate business, thinking that at least some of my troubles might be attributed to my somewhat disorganized and confrontational real-estate agent. Lo and behold, the first place that we come across with the new agent was by far the best I had seen yet, and the price wasn’t insane. So I decided I was tired of looking, and told them I wanted it. The only down side was that I couldn’t move in until the next Tuesday (another 4 days) because the previous tenants had still not moved out. By that point, I wasn’t going to be dissuaded by a small thing like being homeless for a few more days, so I signed the contract that night, and thus concluded my long and arduous search for lodging.
Also, quick mention, Lucky for me, I have a friend that lives three floors above my new place, and they offered to let me sleep on their couch for the time between when my hotel reservation ran out and when I moved into my apartment (which ended up being about a week or so), so that was pretty great, having a place to not be homeless and all. Friends are cool.
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