Apartment Hunting:Sins Of The Past Will Get You…

… if you live down here in Florida.

   My girlfriend and myself have been in the hunt for an apartment for the past month or so, making more of an effort over the last two weeks. She wants to get out of her place and I am tired of the dump in which I live. She has been the roommate of the lessee so she has not had to go through those background checks and what have you. As for myself? I have never had a criminal background check down on me, so this is all new to me. It isn’t a problem since I’ll pass them anyway. Wish that I could say the same for the girlfriend. Two arrests for cocaine possession, a decade ago, and a few other charges are now coming back to haunt her.

   Needless to say, it is also haunting me, and I have nothing to do with this crap! I’ve had a few managers tell me that they’ve always had to pass a background check when renting a place, but this is the first time that I’ve ever run into this problem.

   The last place that we went to told me that with her record, all that we would be able to rent would more than likely be either apartments on the less desirable areas of town, or mobile homes in those same kinds of areas. Places where management doesn’t care about the past, just your money! Then you get to live next door to the prostitutes, crack heads,pill poppers, and of course, those dreaded alcoholics. I have very little tolerance for drinkers.

   Anyway, we have one more week to find a place, which not going to be an easy thing to do.

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