Okay so I know, landlords are never friends. I finally have a good one and forgot that they’re in the housing “business” for .2 seconds. Let slip I was out of work (lucky enough to get a great grant and am existing during my last college semester). They sent me an email 2 days later saying they were showing my apartment and the lease we had just printed and was going to send to them was invalid / they was looking for other tenants. All because I’m not working for a little while in the greatest surge of the pandemic we’ve had in my area. In my last semester of college.
It is settled now and we are staying in the apartment, but it took me having to literally say the amount in my bank account (from a pell grant) in order for them to be “assured” that we “can afford it.”
Context: I’ve payed months ahead every time because I’m lucky enough to afford it with the grants.
Oh, and my town is in a housing crisis so if we didn’t get this place we might not have one.
Conclusion: Screw landlords.