So here’s the situation.
For the past week and a half I’ve had my eye on a ground level suite in Burnaby. Super clean, super nice - just renovated. Good location. Everything. The problem? The landlords were being super picky about who they wanted there. I met with them not once, not twice, but effectively three times (if you count a 20-minute phone conversation.) I told them all about myself, where I work, what program I’m in at the university, answered all of their questions, etc. “You’re the perfect candidate,” a friend told me. “Clean, respectable, stable clean. Why, I can’t even imagine them turning you down.”
They turned me down.
Yes, I know! I can’t believe it either. They rented to someone else. I guess they don’t like mature, responsible, stable-paychecked young professionals in their suite!
Now I’m all paranoid. What’s wrong with me? Why don’t they like me? Sure, I may have name-checked The Darcys a few times during the interview, asked them if they had any Tylenol 3s, and generally shouted things like “Coke den!” and “Huzzah! The Keno table shall go here!” whilst madly conjuring a box shape with my arms in a corner of the room. But still… you wouldn’t turn me down, right?
June 24th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You could come live with me, but it’d be quite the commute.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Thanks! Never say never.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Do you need someone to take care of this little mistake? Cuz I happen to know someone…
June 25th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Maybe they took one look at you and just knew that the sex would be much too loud.
Can I say sex on here? This template is much classier.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Oh, yes. Ryan just exudes class. The Gummie Bears in Japanese video drove that point home.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Who wants to live in a clean nice apartment?
Urban Squalor - that’s what you need.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I would agree with Craig - they took one look at you and went “single guy” and alarms starting going off in their head.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
That’s funny. A friend and I were just talking about the bias against single guys. Lots of suspicion. “Is he a party guy?” “Will there be a lot of loud guy friends coming around?” “Will he blast his stereo at all hours?” And so forth.
And yet, single women aren’t much better. The idea that a young, single, female renter makes a better tenant is, I think, largely a myth.
Discuss.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:15 am
You should give potential landlords your blog address…so they could really see what you’re up to… then they would know that all you would be doing is boring yourself to death…
KIDDING… :p See you at Timmy’s Saturday night???
June 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Ronda - I like how you think. Tell your red-headed stranger that I might have some work for him. You know, if he’s not too busy over there in Iraq.
Craig - Yes, the sex would be much too loud.
Brian - I have class. It’s just well hidden.
Adam - urban squalor = yuck. I’m old, don’t you know. I need a place that can double as a martini lounge AND a coke den.