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[pentapus]

Have spent whole day looking up apartment listings -- do not understand apartment owners who put 4 exterior photos, 4 pool shots, and then none of an actual apartment interior. Feel my haaaate.

Anyway. Heading to belated family Xmas gathering. Have more sketches started for your prompts -- ok, a to do list and one sketch, which has a single canon character in it out of the 6 people standing there -- but I won't be doing anything with them for a few days. Have a nice weekend. Later, gator. :)

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[ratcreature]

That kind of photo selection would make me very suspicious about the state of the apartment.

[risha]

What she said. No interior but lots of exterior pictures translates to "the interior probably needs a complete redo, fumigation, and/or a construction crew".

[ghostgum]

Yeah, I feel your pain -- I'm in a similar position and, honestly, in the scheme of things, I really don't care all that much about the outside: interiors, please! XD

[pentapus]

Me too! Though the thing is: in the city I'll be moving to, the new big ting is these giant, brand new apartment complexes with gates, parking, gyms, swimming pool(s), internet cafes, etc. So while the apartment may be uglier and smaller than they want you to see, it's probably not roach-infested and falling apart. Hiding a crap apartment is one thing -- as motivation, that makes sense -- but I think this may be more about the apartment owners having a seriously skewed idea about my priorities. :/

[pentapus]

That's what's so weird! The photos are generally for brand new, giant apartment complexes with pool, gym, garage, internet cafe. (It's definitely the style in this city). So the apartments are probably not falling apart. I suspect the owner just thinks I care more about a pool that kitchen counter space. o_O

...or the apartments have no windows. I would also believe that. XD

[pentapus]

I KNOW. I'm thinking, "I do not care about the pool! Show me the kitchen counter and how many windows are in the bedroom!" :P

[ratcreature]

Wow, gyms and swimming pools? But still, even with a great swimming pool or gym you are probably going to spend more time inside the apartment itself, and it seems odd if that's not acknowledged.

Then again afaik here most apartment ads in newspapers (rather than through upscale methods like brokers or such) don't have any pictures at all, and you have to visit them to see, and I don't think internet listings where putting in photos is easier are dominant yet. At least when my sister moved to another city for her job two years ago she had to travel there several weekends for apartment hunting in person iirc (of course city distances here aren't as prohibitive to travel like in huge places such as the US). Admittedly I'm rather clueless about apartment hunting in general myself. I've been living in mine since the mid-90s and only got it because I knew someone connected to the landlord. (Finding a place in my city that's somewhat affordable is harder than in many German cities, because the population is growing with many people moving here on top of the number of single households increasing too, but building is expensive and the city had been scaling back the subsidized housing projects for years and only recently tried to reverse course slightly -- so now you have headlines all the time about the insane increases in rent, exploitative landlords, and such stuff. And people have a really hard time finding something nice unless they have a ton of money, like for example in my building which is all small two or two and a half room apartments, there aren't just one or two people living in some of them, but families of four, which may not be 19th century cramped awful yet, but is probably not their dream living arrangement either.)

[abbylee]

I have a postcard from you <3 I checked my mailbox today and this is a great cheering thing on a blowy snowy day! The horses with molded moustache manes and the rider with a full 'stache is wonderful. Thank you so much :D

I hope the apartment hunt is going better. My current place, I ended up because the building was sold out from under me while all my furniture was in transit across the country and I wasn't even in the right province. But it worked out pretty well, so I hope it does for you too and soon.