i gotta ask wog means… anyway, someone just pulled up in a car and gave me a nice 100 dollar bill 🙂 (it was my roommate’s bf for going to feed his cat while they are away). woo woo! good it’s a cash transaction. dont want p\/ssy feeding to show up on a bank statement in case i ever want to rent again! hahaha sorry if that was crass. but it’s just as crass to ask to look at someone’s report cards.
ENY, I hope so you’re right. I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy nut theorist (I hate those!)and I don’t have anything to hide- oh, wait….ok…maybe the cats…but it just feels so offensive. And I don’t like being vulnerable to someone’s whim.
On the other hand, since I have this masochistic need to try to be fair, I would guess most homeowners who rent probably feel just as vulnerable.
I hear what you’re saying ditto, but this is the U.S. – that term is not considered an insult among Americans and certainly doesn’t mean what it means elsewhere.
Bxgrl, they’re not doing this to people like us. They’re doing it to people who perhpas don’t have the means or connections to fight back. People do it because they don’t know better or are scared not to. They expect it’s the norm.
I really don’t think there’s any chance of it becoming the norm, bxgrl. I’ve been both tenant and LL and this is the first I’ve ever heard of something like this. Most landlords, I suspect, would agree it’s unnecessary as well as invasive. But I agree it’s nuts to expect someone would provide this information just to rent an apartment.
ENY- yes he does. But if this becomes the required norm for everyone- and it looks like between landlords, brokers and rental agents it will, it will open up huge cans of worms. Jack looks at report cards of tenant’s children. How long before someone makes that into a discrimination suit because that child has a learning disability they are trying to address? Where does a landlord get the idea he is in any position to know the full circumstances of someone’s life? Or have the right to them? We all went nuts over how overbearing the homeland Security Act was- but here we have people demanding the same powers to personal and private information. It’s just nuts.
Bxgrl, To the homeowners I’d say, “If you can’t stand the heat buy a single family.”
It’s a business and you can’t just do whatever you please when you run a business. Tenants have rights. That extends to potential tenants as well.
i gotta ask wog means… anyway, someone just pulled up in a car and gave me a nice 100 dollar bill 🙂 (it was my roommate’s bf for going to feed his cat while they are away). woo woo! good it’s a cash transaction. dont want p\/ssy feeding to show up on a bank statement in case i ever want to rent again! hahaha sorry if that was crass. but it’s just as crass to ask to look at someone’s report cards.
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ENY, I hope so you’re right. I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy nut theorist (I hate those!)and I don’t have anything to hide- oh, wait….ok…maybe the cats…but it just feels so offensive. And I don’t like being vulnerable to someone’s whim.
On the other hand, since I have this masochistic need to try to be fair, I would guess most homeowners who rent probably feel just as vulnerable.
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I hear what you’re saying ditto, but this is the U.S. – that term is not considered an insult among Americans and certainly doesn’t mean what it means elsewhere.
Jeeze, everyone is throwing the word WOG around. Where is the What. Its the W-word people.
Bxgrl, they’re not doing this to people like us. They’re doing it to people who perhpas don’t have the means or connections to fight back. People do it because they don’t know better or are scared not to. They expect it’s the norm.
I really don’t think there’s any chance of it becoming the norm, bxgrl. I’ve been both tenant and LL and this is the first I’ve ever heard of something like this. Most landlords, I suspect, would agree it’s unnecessary as well as invasive. But I agree it’s nuts to expect someone would provide this information just to rent an apartment.
ENY- yes he does. But if this becomes the required norm for everyone- and it looks like between landlords, brokers and rental agents it will, it will open up huge cans of worms. Jack looks at report cards of tenant’s children. How long before someone makes that into a discrimination suit because that child has a learning disability they are trying to address? Where does a landlord get the idea he is in any position to know the full circumstances of someone’s life? Or have the right to them? We all went nuts over how overbearing the homeland Security Act was- but here we have people demanding the same powers to personal and private information. It’s just nuts.