How I was looking for an apartment for several months, and what horror I came across in the ads.
The task seemed simple: I needed to find a clean, bright one-bedroom apartment – near the metro, without someone else’s old furniture. Just a few months to survive the renovation in my own apartment.
Let’s start with the fact that apartments for a relatively short period of time are mostly rented out by grannies who leave from April to October for the dacha. They leave all their belongings and kitchen utensils in the city. Not even things, but things, trunks, clogged bookcases and walls. For a person in such an apartment, there is simply no place left, but for a minimalist like me, this is a completely nightmare. Such apartments are immediately swept aside.
The second option for renting for several months is when the apartment is put up for sale. Here you will have to expose your entire personal life, yourself and your things about several times a week. But on the other hand, there is nothing superfluous in such apartments. However, often there is no longer even the most necessary things – a washing machine and a refrigerator. “A 1-room apartment for rent for 1 month, possibly more. There is no furniture. The reason is the sale of the apartment. The condition is the need to endure displays of the apartment about 2 times a week. “
But there are also those who rent out housing for a short time for other unknown reasons.
And here you will find many surprises.
Red-eared turtle and cockroaches
In this long ad, the first line read: “Huge request to read to the end.” Of course, after such an intrigue! It turned out that together with an apartment for several months you will get a whole zoo in addition: “Of the minuses: furniture and repairs are not very fresh, there are cockroaches (sanitization at the entrance and exit at the expense of tenants), caring for a red-eared turtle.”
10-meter kennel
Studio apartment with an area of 10 m² for 20 rubles per month. How many square meters and things does a person need to be happy? Scientists say that living in small apartments is unhealthy. But the owners of this housing are unlikely to know.
It’s a mystery to me how everything that is indicated in the declaration fit in this space. “Separate wardrobe, shower, toilet, mini-kitchen with sink and kitchen table, air conditioner, fold-out sofa …” Apartment-suitcase of some kind!
Another similar ad, but more expensive, for 27 rubles. But the area of the apartment is larger by a whole meter! They call to live exclusively a non-smoker, they promise to give everything that is needed for a comfortable life, namely: “a convertible pull-out bed, unlimited Internet, a shower and a toilet.
Developed infrastructure – next to the McDonald’s house, pizzeria, Perekrestok store, Freshka and Potapych grocery stores … It’s understandable! You are unlikely to be able to cook at home.
“Two large shopping centers: near the Planernaya metro station – Planerny shopping center, Kaleidoscope shopping center. In the shopping center “Kaleidoscope” there is a skating rink, a fitness center, a cinema, shops, a food court. “
Also valuable. Having fun at home will not work either. And there is nowhere to do exercises, so a fitness club will come in handy. Meanwhile, the renovation has not begun, because I cannot find something suitable. Well, I don’t want to spend money on dry cleaning of old furniture and re-glue the walls in order to somehow bring this horror, which is offered at a low price, into a more or less decent look. Is it really so hard to throw out old crumbling furniture, peel off the dirty scary wallpaper and just paint the walls white? The apartment will immediately have a different look. And in general, I consider the commission of realtors a robbery – 50-100% of the rental price per month for the fact that this announcement was conveyed to a potential tenant, this is clearly too much.
In Germany, by the way, according to the law, tenants must leave the apartment as it was when they moved in there. And if you move out yourself ahead of time, you must find tenants. And this is correct, I think. But there shouldn’t be any turtles with cockroaches.