February 03, 2008
Where's the apartment fairy when you need her!?!
Another rainy day and another rainy week ahead according to weather forecast... A relief for Australian farmers, but we're nearly going mad here (sitting in our small apartment the whole day) waiting for the news about a beautiful apartment that we saw on Saturday...
Apartment hunt in Sydney is not easy. Places are shown for some 10 minutes (mostly on Saturdays) and then there are tens of people usually "inspecting" them. So on Saturday you carefully draw a list of flats that you want to check and try to rush from one to another. If something goes wrong (the agent is late, the bus doesn't arrive and you miss a connection), your carefully drafted plan collapses and everything melts into panic, terrible rush and great profit for taxi drivers.
The ads you see on Internet are usually photoshopped, so our Saturdays have been full of disappointment after disappointment. But yesterday we saw a place that we loved... For a change...
However... The catch is that once you see a place that you like, you have to compete with the other 20 people interested and submit an "application". The landlord or the agent looks at the applications and assesses the likelihood that you'll trash the place and either offers you to rent the place or not.
We submitted a couple of applications just to test how it goes and we would have gotten every single one (except that we didn't want them)... But currently we're hanging in this dreadful state of "the unknown" terrified by the prospect that we may not get the only place that we liked!
I couldn't sleep properly for last 3 nights, anticipating the Saturday apartment viewing, dreading the idea of someone else getting the place we liked and the whole huge "UNCERTAINTY" hanging above us... Arrrghhhh... Please please please, can we get the place we like and this whole mess would be over!!! Not much we can do right now except to dread the worst and hope for the best... All positive thoughts from everyone are appreciated!
Posted by gkligyte at February 3, 2008 10:21 PM