WheatenLover
Senior Member
- Location
- Georgia
I tried to rent just a regular apartment last year. I had the money to pay the rent a year in advance (length of lease), since I had no pay stubs, and offered to do so. They still wanted to check my credit and criminal histories. I don't have a criminal history and my credit score is great. Still, they would not let me rent the apartment because I didn't have a job. I had a stellar, 12 year, tenant history.
Then they charged me $125 for the credit/criminal checks. I reported it to my bank as fraud since they told me they were sure I would get accepted. The charge was reversed immediately by the apartment company.
In retrospect, I'm glad. I'd stayed in my daughter's apartment at that complex for a couple of months at the very beginning of Covid, and I felt trapped. I mean like a trapped animal. Concrete everywhere. No woods, pastures, no looking around and seeing no people or houses, no wild animals in evidence.
Note: My children were afraid I would get Covid and die. Having children try to parent one as if one were an unwitting small child is not fun. So I returned to my home late one night, while the two of them were paying attention to their screens. They were not keeping me hostage of course.
Then they charged me $125 for the credit/criminal checks. I reported it to my bank as fraud since they told me they were sure I would get accepted. The charge was reversed immediately by the apartment company.
In retrospect, I'm glad. I'd stayed in my daughter's apartment at that complex for a couple of months at the very beginning of Covid, and I felt trapped. I mean like a trapped animal. Concrete everywhere. No woods, pastures, no looking around and seeing no people or houses, no wild animals in evidence.
Note: My children were afraid I would get Covid and die. Having children try to parent one as if one were an unwitting small child is not fun. So I returned to my home late one night, while the two of them were paying attention to their screens. They were not keeping me hostage of course.