Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Tenant or house owner

I have been moving from one rented house to another since 2000. One big difference from then and now is that house owners have lost all traces of common sense.

Earlier there was a clear relation between the size of the house, facilities and the rent for the place. Now just the opposite is true. The owners alone cannot be blamed though. Tenants are more than willing to compromise for the sake of staying close to children's school, spouse's office et al. Thanks to tolerant tenants and money hungry owners rent these days are really at unbearable, unspeakable levels. What one gets for 5k a month is just acceptable but it is still sometimes 2BHK which is two bedroom, hall, kitchen. In most bathrooms and rest rooms are almost non-existent. Talk about compromises.