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[prickvixen]

I've encountered my first 'oh you don't have a pay stub so obviously you can't pay for this apartment even though you've got a mountain of cash' landlord, and am wondering why I'm bothering to fill out this application. Might as well do it just to make the effort.

Oh, and the 'in case of personal emergency' part is so that if they find you dead in your apartment, they know who to call to cart away all your junk.

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[megadog.livejournal.com]

I've been in the same situation - when I was a renter-not-landlord I found the answer was generally to say "So if my company pays you a year's rent up front will you give me a 12.5% discount?".

2 times out of 3 the landlord bit. It was real good value - just try getting 12.5% tax-free on a deposit account!

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

If things don't go well I may have to try this.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Seriously! It's like I woke up in Bizarro World. It's like cash is vulgar now, and credit and other pretend money is considered respectable. We're totally through the looking glass.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, screw that. It's also a really convenient excuse to collect marketing information.

You remember the argument that the FBI was making for the PATRIOT Act, which was essentially "Why should corporations have access to purchasing information, but not us?" You'll note that absolutely nobody questioned the right of business to collect and compile this data in the first place, despite no public mandate and despite corporations being unanswerable to the public. It was just 'Why should business be one up on the police?'

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) It made the CNN homepage, though not as a top story: http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/29/secret.searches.ap/index.html