Thursday, August 21, 2008

Apartments

I'm looking for an apartment to rent starting between ASAP and mid-September. And it turns out that looking for apartments is a) boring and b) difficult.

I just called five places I wanted to set appointments with. I got the following five responses:

1) There's an application pending, and we're not open on weekends.
2) Busy tone.
3) No answer, but I did leave a message on the answering machine.
4) The place has already been rented.
5) The place can't be shown yet because it's still occupied.

So I've gotten zero actual appointments out of it all. I think I'm suffering from the fact that the research is a bit stale (done last weekend) and this business is even more first-come-first-served than I thought. I'll have to just look through some more listings and hope that newer ones will pull through.

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