Update
I just got back from dinner and ate way too much apple pie. Whoa!
I've been pretty quiet for the past couple of weeks, exams have been approaching rapidly and I've been searching for somewhere to live, which has been so far unsuccessful. Maybe in a couple of weeks when exams are over, I have a place and a car and basically an organised life I can do some renovations to this page and write something a little more interesting.
Question.
Why are real estate agents so rude? I've been promised so many call backs which I have never received and minus 2 agents, it feels as if renting out a property is just such a hassle for them. Surely the sooner it's tenanted the sooner they receive their commissions. It's not like we're looking at crappy places either and we're both professionals with decent incomes and references. I can't imagine trying to find a place if you were a student with no previous references.
And now for the places we've been looking at. The last one which was otherwise perfect had a glass wall between the bedroom and the loungeroom. A tiny bit strange. If anyone knows the flat at MUCAPS it was just like that but obviously far nicer. Another place was perfect except for no door between the bedroom and the lounge, not great for two nightshift workers.
We did find two perfect places although it seems that the other 20 people at the inspection also thought they were perfect and no call back from the agent despite numerous daily calls to them.
Other news is that I'll be released onto the unsuspecting public as a paramedic (still technically a student though) next friday. We spent a great day with the CFA last week doing scenarios. We had people dressed up in makeup and old clothes (so we could cut them) and they cut up cars (while I was inside with a patient).
I can't believe they pay me to do this job.
I've been pretty quiet for the past couple of weeks, exams have been approaching rapidly and I've been searching for somewhere to live, which has been so far unsuccessful. Maybe in a couple of weeks when exams are over, I have a place and a car and basically an organised life I can do some renovations to this page and write something a little more interesting.
Question.
Why are real estate agents so rude? I've been promised so many call backs which I have never received and minus 2 agents, it feels as if renting out a property is just such a hassle for them. Surely the sooner it's tenanted the sooner they receive their commissions. It's not like we're looking at crappy places either and we're both professionals with decent incomes and references. I can't imagine trying to find a place if you were a student with no previous references.
And now for the places we've been looking at. The last one which was otherwise perfect had a glass wall between the bedroom and the loungeroom. A tiny bit strange. If anyone knows the flat at MUCAPS it was just like that but obviously far nicer. Another place was perfect except for no door between the bedroom and the lounge, not great for two nightshift workers.
We did find two perfect places although it seems that the other 20 people at the inspection also thought they were perfect and no call back from the agent despite numerous daily calls to them.
Other news is that I'll be released onto the unsuspecting public as a paramedic (still technically a student though) next friday. We spent a great day with the CFA last week doing scenarios. We had people dressed up in makeup and old clothes (so we could cut them) and they cut up cars (while I was inside with a patient).
I can't believe they pay me to do this job.