To study the situation on the Russian real estate market according to the stories of the readers of T-Zh. This time - about how the expectations of a novice tenant can break on the harsh reality.
Money
Expectation: cheaper to rent and make repairs at your own expense.
rented a murdered apartment in the suburbs of Saratov for 8000 rubles
Reality: the apartment was in a house next to a large enterprise, so whoever didn’t live in it. The condition was disgusting: greasy wallpaper, smoky ceilings and walls. They made repairs, and a year later we were asked to move out, since the owner's son was released from prison and had nowhere to live.
Expectation: money for rent can always be transferred to the card.
gives for a one-room apartment with a pot-bellied TV in Belgorod 16,000 rubles
Reality: I have been living in this rented apartment for almost two years. The owner is a pensioner, every month he comes for rent to my house. Supposedly he does not have a card and only needs cash. He cannot meet elsewhere. OK.
From time to time his wife comes with the owner. Under various pretexts: "Oh, yes, I decided to take a walk and go in", "Yes, we will go straight to the store after you." But it is clear that these are checks. Looks at the safety of equipment and other things. Once I even got into the washing machine with dirty laundry - I didn’t disdain it! Constantly reprimands that she has started up the plumbing. Woman, your plumbing under Yeltsin was already not very good, what do you want from me?
Expectation: even if you pay in cash, then at least at a convenient time for everyone.
Vyacheslav
lives in Kazan in rented apartments for the second year
Reality: in the spring of 2018, we rented an apartment with a girl very close to the center of Kazan. The hostess seemed to be a very kind and pleasant woman. The first call was that she refused to accept money on the card and demanded only cash. I could only come before work at 5-6 in the morning.
Once we left for a week to visit relatives and this time coincided with the date of payment for the apartment. We offered to send money to the card. She refused and complained that we could visit relatives some other time.
While we were away, the landlady came to the apartment and staged a raid. Has sent almost 40 photos with dissatisfied comments. When we returned, she began to wash the floors with us, wash our shoes. Finale: I opened the closet, and there were condoms. Shouting "Are you doing lewdness here ?!" demanded to move out at the end of the lease. Sorry for the apartment, it was very comfortable.
Expectation: The deposit may not be returned only if you really spoil something.
rented a one-room apartment in Moscow for 25,500 rubles
Reality: the hostess refused to give the rest of the deposit - 6,000 rubles. After our departure, they decided to change the old gas stove, which we allegedly dirtied, although in fact the coating deteriorated long ago. We did not have time to wash the refrigerator and microwave before leaving, the tulle curtains have never been washed in three years. Then I saw an ad on the Internet - the apartment was renovated and they began to rent it for 4,500 rubles more, for 30,000.
Living conditions
Expectation: the apartment should be warm.
rented a small house in Tyumen for 10,000 rubles
Reality: signed an agreement with the owners for three months, as he was going to find a better apartment later. At first, the hostess seemed to me quite adequate, she assured me that it was warm in the house in winter, and I willingly believed. But at the end of my stay on the street it got colder and the temperature of the house dropped proportionally - to +5 ° C. I had to get hold of a heat gun so as not to freeze.
Expectation: if the apartment is in poor condition, then the owners will have nothing to worry about.
rented a kopeck piece for “grandmother's” in Moscow for 42,000 rubles
Reality: she lived with a small child in Strogino in a typical "grandmother's" kopeck piece with all the charms - carpets, dressing table, Yugoslavian walls, acquired by back-breaking labor, dead parquet flooring, swollen linoleum in some places in the kitchen.
Nothing can be thrown away, the personal belongings of the owners were dumped at random in the bowels of the cabinets. For some reason, they could not take them away and did not allow to touch them. Every month on Saturdays at 9 o'clock they came for money and arranged an audit. The owner, sometimes accompanied by his wife, began a biased examination for 2-3 hours. I remember very well these persons suspecting me of something.
Expectation: all household problems were solved by the owners before finding tenants.
Ekaterina
survived in a murdered apartment in the suburbs and paid 17,000 rubles
Reality: the hostess started repairs and did it on her own. In order not to disturb the tenants, that is, my husband and I, I decided to come to the apartment during our working hours. Every day we returned in anxiety, not knowing what awaited there this time: cement dust, evenly covering all things, bathroom walls peeled from tiles with the smell of fresh earth, or rows of cans and sacks with building materials, through which we had to step over on the way to the kitchen.
The hostess brought food with her and left it in the refrigerator, and rested on the bed after renovation work.
After two months of renovation, we managed to find another apartment. Obviously, the hostess was counting on this, wanting to move in new tenants for a higher fee and not wanting to warn the old ones about this so that they would not move out ahead of time, but continue to pay.
Expectation: if you rent an apartment in a new building, then everything will be new there.
generally satisfied with the apartment he rents in the south of Moscow for 36,000 rubles
Reality: at 2-3 o'clock in the morning there was a short deafening squeak. They jumped up with the bride, did not understand what was the matter, just started to fall asleep - and then again. It became uncomfortable. 10 minutes of searching led to a kitchen wireless fire detector, which, as it turned out, in this way signaled a dead battery. At the same time, it was half covered with a layer of plaster - to access the battery, it was necessary to rip it out of the ceiling along with this very plaster. The owner of the apartment was in a slight shock: repairs from the developer, he did not even know about such a feature. But he got into position.
Expectation: if the residential complex has a closed area, it means that the neighbors are decent and there is nothing to be afraid of.
removes a kopeck piece, converted into a three-ruble note, for 23,000 rubles
Reality: the apartment is abandoned, dead, shabby, but you can live. In a four-story building almost in the area, in the middle of the forest and private plots with houses. Closed area, you can enter the courtyard only if you have a key-button from the remote gate. Great playground with even ping pong tables.
For the first six months, everything seemed to be quiet. Neighbors have been living there for a hundred years, everyone knows each other. But then it turned out that not everything was so smooth. First, a bolted bicycle was stolen from our entrance - clearly on a tip from neighbors, cameras recorded a man and what he was doing.
Then the neighbors fought, they had to call the police, as there was blood all over the entrance, their children were crying - it was terrible, in general. We were assured that this never happened. Now it's hard to believe.
Personal space
Expectation: if the owners rent out the apartment, then they will not use it.
got into a bad story in a good apartment for 12,000 in Nizhny Novgorod
Reality: came home, and things were not in their places. It turned out that while we were gone, the wife of the landlord met there with her boyfriend. We found out about this by chance: there was a check at work and ordinary employees were released home from lunch. I came to the apartment and was shocked.
Expectation: the important things for them the owners will take out of the apartment before renting it out.
Gregory
rented in Kazan "an ordinary pensioner apartment" for 12,000 rubles
Reality: the landlady entered the apartment while I was away. She wrote that she really does not like that I touch her father's books: there were about three hundred of them in the apartment. Said she took Shakespeare. And it was there that I kept the money set aside for paying for the apartment. I say: "Inside the book, money is for the next month." A week later, she asked me to move out, having come up with a story about a brother who has nowhere to live.
Expectation: the owner cannot come without warning.
for three years he lived in rented apartments in three different cities
Reality: I was at work, and my wife was at home doing fitness, wearing headphones. The owner simply opened the apartment with his own key, walked around it, took the things that he needed. Then he went into the room, which greatly frightened his wife. He answered a dumb question in the spirit of: "Well, you did not answer the call, but I was just passing by, I decided to grab a couple of things at the same time."
Relationship with hosts
Expectation: the apartment is rented by its owner.
has been filming for 17 years
Reality: I took off a cool kopeck piece through my acquaintances. True, wildly dirty. Things were scattered about as if someone was running away and in a hurry threw everything away.
A young woman rented an apartment to me - the owner's widow, without a contract. In the process of cleaning, I found a photo of the family: there was a fat policeman who was killed, his children, but as a wife there was a completely different woman. It strained me, but I was too lazy to move again, and I closed my eyes to it.
Then the calls to the home phone and silence on the receiver began. It became uncomfortable. One day I come, and there is this "widow" with her two-year-old son. Says: "My parents kicked me out, I have nowhere to live - I'll live here for now." I went nuts, of course, but I was modest, I did not object to her.
She got drunk and passed out on my bed. Her son was running around in poop all over the apartment. He managed, excuse me, to piss on the drafts of my dissertation. I washed him, fed him. The next day, when I came home from work, I met a man of eastern nationality in the dim corridor of my apartment. The "widow" lay drunk again, yelled that this was her guest, and passed out. The story with the child repeated itself - only this time I prudently bought him something to eat for children.
In short, my patience ran out after a week. She said that either I would leave, or she should leave. She dumped. And the calls and silence continued. In general, I soon left there, as it became quite creepy. I suspect that the uncle was killed in some sort of showdown, and the "widow" was actually his mistress. A real wife or someone who claimed an apartment could call.
Expectation: you can always negotiate with the owner.
Alexander
rented a two-room apartment with a friend
Reality: there was an agreement with the hostess that we pay for all utilities ourselves. Probably, many young people starting an independent life are faced with such a problem as paying for utilities: where to go, who to pay, how to write off meter readings. We are no exception. We were 19-20 years old, and we solved it as simply as possible - we didn't pay.
When the hostess found out about the accumulated debt - about 10 thousand rubles in 2012 - she chose the most illegal, but the most effective way to get money from two idiots. While my friend and I were at the university, she came to the apartment, found our passports and the most valuable things for students - laptops. After the unauthorized "confiscation", she notified us that she would return everything as soon as we present her paid receipts. I had to urgently find an opportunity to settle accounts with housing and communal services organizations.
The "hostages" returned the same day, with the hostess they lived in perfect harmony for another couple of years.
Expectation: many are against cats and dogs, but there are no problems with rodents.
7 years ago I rented a house in Moscow for the first time
Reality: the hostess came earlier than the agreed time, while no one was at home, and found in the closet - why not crawl through the closets? - a cage with a rat. She had a tantrum over the phone, then in person: now her closet smelled like animals. Although the rat did not leave the cage, it was possible to simply ventilate and solve all the problems. But the hostess tried to take away the keys on the same day. As a result, we managed to agree and move out in a couple of weeks.
Expectation: if something goes wrong, you can safely move out.
settled in the center of Rostov-on-Don for 15,000 rubles a month
Reality: the hostess was well over 60. She made sure that my friend and I did not take the guys to the apartment. From time to time she was on duty on the street in front of the house, although she herself lived on the other side of the city.
If I could guess from the windows that we were not there, I went into the apartment and recounted my old down pillows and Soviet crystal. Every month she rafted us old stuff from her apartment for storage. I still remember the "Baby" hand washing machine for the half of the bathroom.
On the day of departure, she wanted to sit on a chair near our beds all night and be on duty so that we did not steal her old crystal and keys to the apartment. It was possible to get her out only with obscenities. The next day at 7 am she was already on the doorstep to count everything.
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Almost all of us have ever rented a room or apartment, and those who have not tried it have probably thought about it at least once. However, your cherished corner does not always bring peace and tranquility, sometimes renting an apartment turns into an exciting quest or a survival game. For example, have you ever been called crazy because you have music on your phone instead of a dial tone? Or were you denied a lease because you have long hair?
site collected the most heartwarming and funny stories that tenants shared with us.
I rent a room, the second one is rented by a girl. You can't say anything, she is young, insanely beautiful, eats right, works 10 hours a day, and then she goes to the gym. And today it happened. I go into the kitchen, she eats her bran with milk and dried apricots, looks up at me and sincerely says: "How did it get to me!"
We rented a room from a strict grandmother: lights out at 11, don't sit at the computer. I also lived with 2 guys from sharagi, the computer was mine, but at all, I studied to be programmers. Once I sat down at the computer at 22:50, 10 minutes is not enough, so the granny started muttering at 23:05: "Turn it off, then turn it off." After another 5 minutes I hear how she cut out the shield! That would be on fire if it were not for an uninterruptible power supply! But then she wondered how a computer works without light.
I met a guy, a month later they decided to live together, rented an apartment "in half" ... a year later I found out that the apartment was his!
Preparing for exams, time 21:00, the hostess opens the door to my room and silently turns off the light. I am completely surprised at first thinking, maybe she just did not notice me in a room 2 by 2.5 meters. Then he opens the door again and says: "We need to study during the day, not at night, you interfere with my daughter's sleep." I said that I was leaving tomorrow, but that the lights would be on until the morning (just the very next day was the day of paying for the apartment).
As students, we were looking for an apartment with a friend. They looked for ads in the newspaper, called one at a time, and there the grandmother in a commanding voice like in the movie "Mulya, don't make me nervous": "So, who will live?" We: "Two Students". “So so. I will live with you, pay for the apartment + communal apartment, by 21:00 be at home, do not drink, do not smoke, I will not let you into the kitchen, I will cook everything myself, and you buy only food, I will make the list myself. Are you a good student? Are you getting a scholarship? Do you have any girls? " The comrade just mumbled into the phone: "Well ..." "Okay, I'll call you back in a minute." He calls back and says the following: "Instead of a dial tone, the music is playing - you are abnormal" - and hangs up.
I had to immediately be on my guard when I called on the ad, and the first question of the owner of the apartment was: “The hair is not long? I have a fair floor, hair is immediately noticeable.
I rented one from my grandfather ... In my free time I read books, but it turns out I had to communicate with him. So he asked the doctor to check me, they say, some kind of crazy - he lies in the evenings in the dark, staring at the phone. Then this old one almost set fire to his own house: he got drunk and left the pan with mushrooms on the fire overnight. Then he told me: "Either you talk to me, or you pay a thousand more." I chose the latter and after 2 days he told me to check out. Which I gladly did.
My husband and I changed many rented apartments. On the last one there lived a grandmother, who died there. Neighbors said that Granny was an extremely unpleasant person. In the apartment, footsteps were heard all the time, crockery rattled and lights blinked. Finally, we bought our own ... We found out that my grandmother had also died there before us. First of all, when we entered the apartment after the purchase, they jokingly said: “I wonder if we’ll make friends with this granny? Blink the light at least, bah. " The light blinked and went out for half a day. We think: it was "yes" or "no" ...
Rented an apartment in a new building, paid for six months in advance. I was amazed by the neighbors from above: a family of elephants-football players lived above me, moving furniture every evening and dancing lezginka until morning. Conversations did not help, but it turned out that the landlord had another apartment above my neighbors above. Paid and removed it. On the first evening I called my friend to play basketball in the apartment. The neighbor was not long in coming, he immediately ran to bang on the door. Oh, those crazy eyes, it was worth it!
Then we lived in a rented apartment, the child was not yet a year old, and the door to the door with us was also a family, but older, with three boys of the same age. The man worked as a policeman and, accordingly, often returned long after midnight. And he called our intercom. It could have been 12 am or 4 am. At least 2 times a week. Well, we are understanding people, we always got up and opened the front door for him, and then another vestibule. It lasted about six months, no less.
And then I ran into his wife on the street and still asked what the reason was. Does he have keys, or what, or your intercom does not work? The answer killed. He does not take the keys to the patrol so as not to lose, and he does not ring the intercom so as not to wake the children up. To my indignation that we, as it were, have a child, she calmly replied that one of us would wake up, and all three of them! And, well, yes, I didn't think so ... Since then, we have cut the intercom for the night.
The rented apartment has cardboard walls. Accordingly, the audibility is perfect. Children's screams, dogs barking, stomping - that's okay. But the most amazing thing is how the neighbor on the right lets gas and laughs at it. Neighs so joyfully and fervently that it is impossible not to smile. And in public, he is a sporty and polished guy, constantly in perfectly matched suits and a perfectly cleaned foreign car.
I rent an apartment with a friend. And we often cook together. Rather, I cook, food for my money, but we eat together. Silent, silent, and told her everything. She took offense and pointedly stopped buying bread, like so that I could see what her contribution to food was. One problem - I don't eat bread.
We rent an apartment with my husband for about a month. He went to work for a day. I called a friend: sat, chatted, everything was fine. 2 o'clock in the morning, called her a taxi, went outside to see her off. She left, and I went to the intercom and ... I understand that I forgot my keys at home. Heart in the heels. It would be fine during the day! I would call the first apartment I came across and ask to open it. But bothering people at night is too much for me.
We lived with my husband in a rented apartment with the owners' furniture. And there was, among other things, a chic three-tiered Lego castle, which stood on the upper shelves. Somehow guests with children came to us and, seeing him, asked to play with him. The husband, of course, got it to the children, and during the game they took the castle apart to the ground. After that, I spent a whole month trying to assemble it again from memory, since I could not find the same on the Internet.
During this time, I probably swore at everyone: both the children who dismantled someone else's thing without asking, and my husband, who gave this very thing to the children, and then did not even help restore it, but in the end I was never able to build the castle. So it remained disassembled to lie in the box. The owners were not told anything. It's been 3 years since we moved out of that apartment, and I'm still ashamed.
Bonus
Search for an apartment in Moscow- it is something like: “I will hand over a kennel 3 by 3 squares to Russian Orthodox vegetarians without children, preferably virgins or barren, loving Dostoevsky, nonsmoking, teetotal, breathing every other time. The nearest metro is a three-day reindeer ride, I want money for that as Gazprom's annual income.
The article is intended for those guys and men who had an acquaintance with a new young lady, and all subsequent ones with her were somewhere in neutral territory. And now she agreed to the first date in the apartment. In your, so to speak, bachelor den.
You savor in your mind the possible options for such a meeting in an intimate setting, indulging in the wildest fantasies. So that such a date does not end faster than you expected and does not become the last with this lady, carefully study the list of things that in no case should catch the eyes of a young lady in your home.
Pay attention - this list was compiled by the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity themselves, so you can trust him 100%!
We will not mention that you need to carry out at least an elementary cleaning in your house - to clean the bathtub and toilet bowl from yellow smudges, wash the mountain of accumulated dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, straighten the crumpled blanket on the bed and take out the trash bin oozing a bouquet of aromas.
You yourself can guess to do this.
And here is a list of things, at the sight of which the romantic mood of a girl who agreed to visit you very quickly disappears and it is replaced by bewilderment, disgust and a desire to quickly leave your monastery. Well, you too.
Medicines in a conspicuous place
They are scattered throughout the house, gathered in a pile in the bathroom, in the kitchen or by your bed - it doesn't matter. The sight of these numerous ointments, tablets and bottles with potions instantly transforms you in the eyes of a girl from a brutal macho into a snotty squish with a bunch of diseases, the most innocent of which are hemorrhoids and herpes. Remember, they feel sorry for the sick, but do not like them. You are not interested in knowing about her problems with thrush or dandruff? So do not put on display all your ins and outs, if you want the first date in the apartment with this young lady not to turn into advice from the TV program "Bless you!"
"Pulp Fiction" next to the toilet
In the toilet, except for paper, air freshener and toilet cleaner with a brush, there should be NOTHING else! Cut it on your nose - it doesn't matter what the young lady will see from the reading material if she visits this corner of your apartment: the second volume of "War and Peace" by Lev Nikolaevich, or the next issue of the "Speed Info" magazine. Before her eyes, your unsightly image without pants will instantly be drawn, when you enjoy hours sitting on the "white throne", inhaling exquisite aromas and thoughtfully delving into what you read. Leaving your toilet after what she saw, the girl, without stopping, can just as quickly leave your apartment.
Womens things
It looks very unconvincing to try to assure your guest that the women's panties she found were forgotten by your sister, and you need lipstick for artistic painting of window panes. Your guest nods her head in agreement, but the thought that at the most inopportune moment another young lady may appear in the apartment and throw a scandalous showdown will make her very quickly retire from your nest of debauchery already occupied by another girl.
Tip: when cleaning your home, do not overdo it with the desire to bring sterile cleanliness, as in the operating room. Too clean apartment worries women much more than "pigsty". And if the apartment, where the stench and the mess reigns, the young ladies quickly leave, grimacing with disgust, then too clean housing leads them to the idea that the order in it is maintained by another girl, with whom you also enjoy spending your time.
Your "highly artistic photographs"
The girl came to the first date in the apartment with you, and not with numerous, albeit very, very successful photographs of you in beautiful poses. Such photos, on display, make the young ladies think that the young man depicted on them (that is, you) is none other than a narcissistic peacock, admiring his own reflection in the mirror for hours. By the way, God forbid, if you have a mirror hanging on the ceiling in your bedroom! “It means that he will stare as I jump on top of him or please him with oral caresses, but he himself does not assume any activity of his own!” - the usual thoughts of an ordinary girl at the sight of such mirrored ceilings. Well, if only the girl is unusual, then ...
Former greenery in flower pots
Dead plants with wistfully protruding dry trunks and leaves make a depressing impression with their sad appearance, and suggest sad thoughts about the frailty of being, about the short duration of youth and life in general, and resemble burial mounds with withered last year's bouquets of something there before blossoming and alive ... Urgently get this "melancholy" out of sight! Some sensitive young ladies associate the ruined flower with the prospect of their ruined relationship to you in the future, so you shouldn't risk leaving such an ikebana on the windowsill
Rusting idle sports equipment
Not using dumbbells for their intended purpose? Is the treadmill covered with a centimeter layer of dust and does your clothes dry on it after washing? Do not give the girl a reason to think of you as a weakling and squishy who does not know how to finish what he started (did you buy these things to improve yourself?) disgrace yourself in front of her.
Alcohol
The abundance of alcohol in your house, as well as empty dishes from it, will inevitably hang on you in the eyes of the girl as an "alcoholic". Well, or more mildly, "a young man drinking heavily." If you are a collector of rare and expensive drinks, collecting them solely for aesthetic reasons, then at least try to explain this to the guest. If she is lucky and the young lady turns out to be a connoisseur, she will appreciate your collection at its true worth, but in most cases the ladies do not delve into the difference between Madeira of 1903 bottled from the Rhine harvest of 1987 and no longer appear on your horizon. Do you need it? Hide the bottles as soon as possible.
Sex shop products
There are no options at all. There is hardly a girl who will be delighted with the fact that they will play with her with a vibrator that has already experienced a "deep immersion" not in her innermost charms. And you won't be able to prove to her that you opened the package just to admire the beautiful curves of this wonderful unit! Without packaging, it means we used it! The logic is iron. With unhappy consequences for you. Hide it and everything else from the same store, or keep everything in an unopened package. And it's better not to "shine" with such things at all, because you don't know this young lady very well yet. Maybe she read stories about sexual perverts with their vast toolkit for sado-maso pleasures with innocent victims. In general, put aside your erotic arsenal until better times.
Toys. Not sexy but ordinary
Either you kept silent about the presence of children of primary school and preschool age, or you yourself are still playing in them, remembering your childhood. In the first case, you are a scoundrel who concealed the truth about your own children from a young lady. In the second - an infantile young man, periodically falling into childhood. Although, according to the results of polls, 5% of girls said that they would treat a guy favorably if they saw soft toys at his house (they inspire them with calmness and confidence that the guy is kind and will not harm them). But the remaining 95% still seem suspicious of having toys in the house, so don't risk it.
"Aroma" in the apartment
What makes the first date in the apartment the last one almost instantly? The unpleasant smell hovering in the apartment is so repulsive to girls of any age, social status and upbringing that they are ready to immediately leave such a home, without even crossing its threshold! Women are generally much more sensitive to odors than men. And if they can still put up with socks chaotically scattered over the dwelling, then there is absolutely no smell from these socks. As with the stinking contents of the refrigerator or the "bouquet" of aromas from the bathroom and toilet. And no matter how hard you try to put at least some kind of relative order before meeting on your territory with a lady of the heart, if the house stinks, write lost. All your efforts can be considered flushed down the toilet. Which, by the way, also stinks.
That's all.
Take a close look at your accommodation if a new girlfriend is about to visit. Take the time to eliminate all of the above, and then the first date in the apartment will have the most pleasant continuation for you, with a delightful night and sweet morning cooing in bed with the girl you invited.
Finally, a little humor, as always:
