For the landlords out there… Is it just me, or do the 20-something renters out there seem more indecisive and less courteous than renters in the past? I’ve been showing apartments in the past year to prospective tenants and I cannot remember so many no-shows for appointments, so many applicants who decide upon being notified that their application has been approved and then decide not to rent the place. Perhaps my memory is getting hazy?


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  1. Yeah, keep anyone under 30 out of your building.

    Also watch out for them blacks and hispanics.

    And jews can be troublesome as well.

    Is this poster friggin’ serious? This has lawsuit written all over it!

  2. Wonder if people will feel the same way when these millenials are deciding whether or not they want to pay for our social security and medicare.

  3. eh – read this rant on 20yr old workers from Louis CK

    I think you should do your job. I think a lot of people don’t do their job, because they don’t like their job. I don’t get that. You know, if you go to a coffee place, and the kid looks at you like, “Uh.” I didn’t come to your house to ask you for coffee. This is a coffee place. Your clothes match the building, I had a right to expect….—and you’re closer to the coffee machine.

    I don’t know why someone wouldn’t want their job to go really well. And I think usually it’s because they’re twenty. Because they’re twenty-year-old douchebags. I’m prejudiced against twenty year olds. Because, nineteen you’re still your parents’ fault. Twenty, you’re technically an adult, but you still haven’t done anything.

    Twenty year olds at their jobs are always like, “This job sucks.” Yes, that’s why we gave it to you! Because you’re twenty. You haven’t done anything. You’ve just been sucking up resources, you’ve just been taking food and love and education and iPods, and taking it and judging—“I like that,” and “Oh, that sucks.” You’re like a big orange on a tree that’s rotting, and the tree is like, “Get off!” and you’re hanging on, “I don’t want to go.” If you’re twenty, you definitely have never done a thing for anybody.

  4. I’ve heard pissing and moaning about “Midwesterners” since I moved here 18 years ago, and I still don’t know what people are talking about. If you grew up in the freezing cold rust belt grit of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, St Louis — in just about any decade — I can assure you, you’re pretty fuckin’ tough. And you’ve decided to move to NYC to boot. Who are we talking about, and from where? I’ll never get it. Bizarre.

  5. “By Petebklyn on May 13, 2011 12:34 PM
    why even bother dealing with anyone younger than 35.”

    that might work in some neighborhoods, but it would shrink my pool of applicants to nearly nil…

  6. I had a couple of young 20 somethings come to look at an apartment I was renting earlier this year.
    They came in giggling and immediately started to critique the layout as if I was their contractor on one of those DIY network shows.
    Perhaps they mistook me for a guy who was selling them a penthouse at one of the new Richard Meier designed buildings.
    Welcome to New York. Now get used to it.
    Needless to say, they didn’t get the apartment.
    It went to a 20 something year old woman who just got out of the military and was glad to have the space.

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