20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

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1. You spend so much time looking online you never actually go outside.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

2. What you WANT and what you can AFFORD are entirely different things.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting
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3. You think you’ve found a place and then realise no busses, trains, or trams are in the area.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

4. Real estate sites keep showing you “nearby” suburbs.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

IF I WANTED TO LIVE IN THAT SUBURB I WOULD HAVE SEARCHED FOR THAT SUBURB!

5. Everything good seems to be only JUST out of your price range.

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6. There are no gyms anywhere near the places you look at.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

Which gives you an excuse to not exercise, I guess.

7. You think you have a good chance at getting a place and then a family walks in and you’re like:

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

8. You’re ashamed of your rental history.

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9. You get rejected a lot.

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10. And you’ve told yourself far too many times that “this place will be different.”

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting
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11. People start sending you links to places they’ve seen online.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting
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I know. I saw it. I check. Every day.

12. You get so desperate for an apartment that you start enquiring about the ones listed with one or ZERO photos.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

13. And you don’t even get accepted by them.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

14. You’ll think you’ve found the perfect place only to discover the entire house has ONE POWERPOINT.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

15. Each agency has a different set of forms that you have to fill out in a different way to differentiate yourself.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

16. But you still get rejected.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

LOL!

17. Every real estate agent is a dick.

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No arguments. This is law.

18. And finding the ‘right’ people to move in with can be tougher than you thought.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting
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19. And even when you do, no one is perfect and SOMETHING they do will BUG THE HELL OUT OF YOU!

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

20. So you should genuinely start considering moving back in with your parents.

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

Have fun!

20 Problems You Always Encounter While Apartment Hunting

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