Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
The wife and I are in Texas looking for a place to live. We allowed ourselves a grand total of 2 days to find a place so we are under a little pressure. We (OK, mostly the wife) have researched as much as possible on the internet over the last several months in preparation of our trip down here but now we are in crunch time.
Yesterday morning we met with a realtor to look at homes for rent and we reserved the afternoon to look at a few apartments. Going in I was leaning toward an apartment and the wife was leaning toward a house.
We met with our realtor at 9 AM and started the day. Our day could not have started any worse really. The realtor punched in the key code for the first house and we went inside to discover twenty empty beer bottles on the kitchen counter. As we moved throughout the house we were a little shocked that the first bedroom door was locked from the inside. The second bedroom contained someone who appeared to be sleeping off the effects of the empty beer bottles and the third bedroom also contained a young lady that the realtor actually knew! Most the houses after that were about the same quality only unoccupied.
I have had a day to think about this and I tried real hard to put a positive spin on this. So here is my conclusion. The first house is a staged house and the realtor always goes there first, no matter the price range of the persons looking to rent. The locked door, the persons in the bedrooms, the recognition of one of the occupants, it is all staged so that no matter what homes you look at next, they all seem great compared to the first house.
I tried all night to convince myself of this. I am about as convinced as you are! We are signing the paperwork for an apartment today.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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