I've signed a lease for an apartment. While I should be excited, I find myself becoming more and more frustrated. As it happens, Nicole, her father and I all signed the lease. We purchased insurance for the apartment; provide a million forms of identification, proof of income, proof of employment (all 3 of us); we paid up the agency fee, first months rent, along with a security deposit; set up a bank account;
however we are still not allowed to move in. Not until on of my parents
also prints-signs-faxes a copy of the lease, along with proof of income, and a copy of their passport and sends it to the agency. Which is 100% bullshit. If I have enough money in my bank account to cover rent expenses,
AND have proof of an income- more than enough to cover rent... I should be allowed to rent whatever/wherever/whenever I want. Agree? Perhaps it's my American mentality... but I would think that everything provided thus far should be enough for us to move in.
Now I wait. And while I wait I must pay 17euros a night to stay at a freezing cold youth hostel where I'm forced out of bed and out of the hostel by 10am until 6pm. 17euros may not sound like a lot but after 10 days that adds up to 170euros which is 240 American dollars. Definitely not cheap. Almost equivalent to one months rent. And I don't even get to sleep in. I suppose I should go to sleep.
Ughh... the French.
Um, why aren't you staying at a freezing cold bungalow with pelicans? Oh right, because that's in Rome, my bad.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, that's all kinds of ridiculous :( Is it because of your age maybe? That's the only reason I could think why you need mommy and daddy's permission to freaking rent an apartment. Don't fret, it could be worse. You could be bald.