I’m so tired of looking for a place to rent, they are either way to over priced, or in a horrible neighborhood, and when I finally find a place I loved with great rent and an awesome location and I’m the first to view it I’m stoked! I fell in love with it but my bf who is currently in Alberta working 14 hour days had to have say. I told you I would call you that night or next morning to let you know. I called at 10:30 Saturday morning and said I would take it you then said ok I have to talk to the property manger I’ll get back to you. So I waited Mon roles around and still nothing …… so I call you back and ask whats the deal, and you proceed to tell me I waited to long and other people had showed the unit and I should have called earlier cause someone took it. WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YOU SAY THIS SAT MORNING!!!!!!! or why didn’t you mention other people were showing the unit so to get back to you by a certain time or you would let it go? this place wasn’t up for rent until Sept 1st so its not like you had a pending time crunch. This whole process is frustrating and I know I’m moving come the end of Aug but chances are I wont know where until two weeks before we move at this rate 🙁 I guess I learned my lesson though as soon as you know you want it call back no matter how late at night or early in the morning because if you wait just a little bit to long the apartment of your dreams will be gone! —frustrated
This article appears in Jun 20-26, 2013.
Were having the same problem. Whats with these people? Sorry YOU should have called ME? Now its GONE?! Whats even the point in filling out applications when by the time your done it someone has already taken your apartment-to-be?
Halifax apartments: Overpriced crack dens.
Nobody gives a shit about your boyfriend in butt fuck Alberta and his say. Someone else fully committed after you left.
I guess you learned the hard way, but if you find an apartment you like a lot, commit to it right then and there and do the paper work in front of them. Good apartments are hard to come by in Halifax.
Halifax Apartment Hunting 101
Class is in session…
No landlord is going to hold an apartment, for any length of time, if someone else shows up with half the rent for the damage deposit and passes whatever background check they do. End of story. Is it fair? No, but, unfortunatly thats the way it is.
Suggestion, for OP and Cha, be fully prepared to commit when you first see the apartment, and have your cheque on hand to fill out for the damage deposit. Leaving the damage deposit with your application usually goes a long way, and also puts the power back in your hands. If you come across something better, put a stop payment on the damage deposit previously given, rinse and repeat.
There is a big difference in renting from a commercial building VS private. Commercial buildings will be up front if other people have applications in or not, and you generally have more time if you want to think it over. Private however is another story, some landlords grab the first person to hand them a deposit there is no screening process, so when renting private be prepared for it to be cut throat.
“as soon as you know you want it call back no matter how late at night or early in the morning because if you wait just a little bit to long the apartment of your dreams will be gone!”
Grammar aside, that is indeed a tough lesson to learn.
Moving sucks enough without being screwed around.
Impulse moving is nigh but impossible in most cases unless you’re willing to settle for Cha’s said crack den.
My husband and I have several rental properties. When we view them to potential tenants we expect them to sign the lease or we assume they’re not interested. When someone displays evasive behaviour like you did, then we question their motives and financial state and move on to the next potential tenant. You have to protect yourself OP, its a dirty world full of drug addicts with debt.
I had to relocate a few years ago due to a work transfer. I had visited the city before and always said if I had to live there I would want to live in this particular house that I loved. Drove by it every time I visited. Awesome.
When I did relocate and was looking for a place I went by to admire the house (again!) and there was a “For Rent” sign out front …. OMG; I phoned and was told it was spoken for but I asked to view it as I admired it so much. Ha, I viewed it next day at noon and wrote a cheque then and there for damage/first/last and …. moved in three weeks later!
Be proactive and prepared! It is dog-eat-dog world.
“I told you I would call you that night or next morning to let you know.
As soon as I read that sentence I knew how this ended. A little money like a deposit on the spot speaks volumes. You have to get your hooks in there right away if it’s that good. The “dream” tenant might be right behind you.
this isn’t an unfair situation OP. you haven’t been mistreated. it’s a shame you lost an apt you would have liked, but it’s not unfair. it just is the way the market works. of course you can think about it overnight, or discuss with someone, but then you run the risk of having someone else step in who can make up their mind right away. or who has the permission of their absent partner to act on his/her behalf.
if you continue to feel sorry for yourself about this, you are missing the chance to learn and grow up a bit.
op that sucks but it’s like a race. The first applicant that makes a landlord happy to complete the application process gets the apartment. They beat you to it. It’s also possible that you weren’t quite the tenant of their choice.
None of this is that bad. What i find sort of ugly is, like you say, nobody had the decency to tell you the unit was gone and you wasted time and energy working to get it after they had already flipped it to someone else.
But op, tell me. Did you look at it with the current tenant or with the landlord? If it was the landlord, then it was a shitty thing for them to do because they know what the state of the property is and strung you along anyway.
however, my dear, if you looked at it with a tenant, it’s unlikely the tenant would know if the property manager or landlord had found someone else in the meantime. This would be a case of the tenant not knowing that a decision had already been made. And if that’s the case.. well nothing was done wrong.
“I’m so tired of looking for a place to rent, they are either way to over priced, or in a horrible neighborhood, and when I finally find a place I loved with great rent and an awesome location and I’m the first to view it I’m stoked! I fell in love with it but my bf who is currently in Alberta working 14 hour days had to have say. “
So OP your bf gave you instructions to find you and he an apartment while he was working in Alberta.But, he didn’t give you permission or have trust in you to find a decent place….He’s a fucking control freak and you need to grow a pair.One year from now he will be back in Alberta f*cking a filly in a decent apartment or house while you’ll living in Crack Alley alone in the North end of Dartmouth.
Eats_crayons I looked at it with the guy who I thought was the landlord turns out he just looked after the property. Also when I asked to fill out an application he said they didn’t have one that I had given enough no over the phone when I called. I also also asked about a damage deposit and he said they don’t take one, they just take a holding fee that goes towards your first months rent. This all sounded a little backwards to me since I always filled out applications and always given damage deposits, so I took the night to think it over which is my mistake. And I did learn my lesson. And to everyone going on about asking my boyfriend what he thinks its common curtesy he moves home in a month and will be living there with me paying half the rent so he should like it as well. However after all this happened he agreed if I like one from now on just to take it even if I don’t get the chance to talk to him first so I don’t lose another one. It’s all a learning curve I was very upset I lost the place, no application no damage deposit great location awesome price…..it all sounded to good to be true so I hesitated….my mistake.
Out in Hillbilly Hollow, our only apartment building is the former fish plant. The smell’s a little funky but you get a free goat once you pay the first month’s rent. Upgrade to a 2 roomer and the goat will be trained to trap the local lobsters with a beer bottle. Once caught, the only way to attain said lobsters is to arm wrestle with the goat who just may kick you in the noggin instead.
Sounds like it WAS too good to be true, OB. This was probably a blessing in disguise!