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Old Sep 19, 2017, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by awkwardlyyours View Post
Quick Couch poll (I promise I will stop spamming about my rental issues very very soon): I found a lovely (okay, lovelier than the previous selection) place with a ton of light and good stuff.

Except -- big except -- it's a place that's being rented out by an owner-person (as opposed to a management company).

I have an absolute dread (without any experience actually) of dealing with actual people as landlords as opposed to impersonal office managers who are employees for a rental management company and who really couldn't care less about the tenants and would just do (or not do) what needs to be done and call it a day?

She seems incredibly nice and funny and reasonable and kind and so on. And, she doesn't live there. And, yet I dread....I dunno what.

I'm trying to figure out how much of this is entirely my (no-doubt) craziness vs. there really is something to be said for dealing with impersonal office people vs. owner-persons?
I think you should go for the place that gives you good energy (in other words, the one with a ton of light). Just work out with her if you can pay rent through paypal or the bank. For me, that was the only awkward part of owner landlords (trying to get them the rent), and I actually prefer them to companies or agency landlords. If she seems reasonable and nice, then she probably is. Go for it
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awkwardlyyours
Thanks for this!
awkwardlyyours, unaluna