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Mum’s Day Off…
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by darnonymous.
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Today was the first time Marty & I have left the kiddo at home all day with my mum *sniff*. If it was for a nice day out or for a desperately needed girls day I could relax & enjoy it. Sadly, my little man was left at home so we could spend our day traipsing all over the world to see 7 apartments!
I have said it before & I will say it again; househunting (for rentals) in Sydney is DISGUSTING!
My brain is fried! I don’t know how long I can keep doing this, I am so stressed & dejected.
If you have been following my renting saga, this was the 5th week of non-stop calls to agents, in & out of open houses, & filling out application after application.
I have been abused by the rudest agents all week long. If they don’t want people to call up & ask about apartments why bloody advertise them?!!! My poor little guy is suffering, some days we have been back & forth to apartments & he gets about 5 minutes sleep before I have to wake him up to head off to another one!
I have now dragged my poor little guy to see about 40 apartments over the last 5 weeks. The crowd of people looking at each one has ranged from about 10 people, to the worst one today, about 60 people! I am not exaggerating!
I have never had such a hard time renting before, our Government really has a lot to answer for! We both have good rent histories & references, & it is not that we don’t have money, or are being too picky. We have applied for the tiniest, grottiest places at $350 a week. But according to the agents, for each tiny grotty place we are willing to pay good money for, there are 10 other people who are offering to pay more than us. Apparently the current trend is rent auctioning! Whoever is willing to pay the highest rent is the person that gets the place, simple as that.
So, if you can’t afford to buy a place in Sydney, but you can’t get a rental no matter how hard you try, what is the next step?
ANY SUGGESTIONS?????
*Next place we look at I will remember to take my camera to give you a picture of what it is like to see crowds of dejected faces at place after place.
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