The title of the post means "Home" - and while I write this post, I am reminded of an old tamil movie I saw under the same title long back which portrays the struggle a middle class Indian family undergoes to get their own home built. Not much different from that are the hurdles a renter/tenant undergoes.
I, for a change, am in both sides of the game and much like a "thavil" or mirudangam, is getting the short end of both sides as of this post's date. Lets see if either of them improve in the coming days.
Thanks to financial world partly, housing prices and foreclosures are hitting record numbers in the bad direction and an whiplash effect of that is increasing rents for rental homes. My apartment management can be credited with the most lackluster customer service of its kind.
The first thing we learned is the "screen saver" idea - The real apartment you get is nowhere close to the model apartment they show during site tour. Of course, I am not comparing the furnishings. But the closet doors- shouldnt they be same or similar. Lease renewal this time around brought to light a hare-brained rule that our property management had - You got to have a renter's insurance with both the lesse's names in it - My insurance agent went dumbfounded when I told him this. If you need all insured names in auto insurance, understandable. But why for a renter's insurance. Does a brush fire or a thief care to affect only portion of the property where a insured renter lives ? or makes sure if both are insured ?
The first thing we learned is the "screen saver" idea - The real apartment you get is nowhere close to the model apartment they show during site tour. Of course, I am not comparing the furnishings. But the closet doors- shouldnt they be same or similar. Lease renewal this time around brought to light a hare-brained rule that our property management had - You got to have a renter's insurance with both the lesse's names in it - My insurance agent went dumbfounded when I told him this. If you need all insured names in auto insurance, understandable. But why for a renter's insurance. Does a brush fire or a thief care to affect only portion of the property where a insured renter lives ? or makes sure if both are insured ?
Another one, yet to be solved is I got a water consumption utility bill for the month of December which stated I used ~900 gallons of hot water. Heres the joke, we were not even in the country during that billing period. And add fuel to the fire, that amount averages about 66% of our regular monthly consumption for the past 2 years. What hit me was is it just a one time misreporting or has this leak been happening for past 2 years. As usual, our best-tenant-service-award-winning management, in its usual red tape style, has taken up this issue with the utility company. So many layers of useless outsourcing, no wonder this country is going down the drain. And we are yet to receive a response from them. In the mean time, they have credited that controversial bill amount to our recent bill. But thats not the end. We need an answer. Probably should take it up with local celebrity Micheal Turko or somebody if time permits.
Dont get me started on the other side of the game. Me as a owner of a home. The wish list there is even long. Let me vent that out in a different post someday.
Attached picture was taken with my new Nikon 55-200mm AFS DX VR lens that I bought over eBay. Amazing gizmo. The aperture opens wide enough that my shutter times are now in 1/1000ths of a second outdoors. The picture shows one of our neighbourhood homes from a park atop a canyon.
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