Livin LArgentina – Post #21

How To Annoy Your Landlord in a Foreign Country in 3 Easy Steps
 
For our stay abroad, my three roommates and I decided to take the road less traveled: rather than stay in a homestay or dorm, we rented an apartment. We did copious amounts of online research prior to our arrival (with our savvy parents’ help, of course) and found the perfect apartment, with the perfect realty company. We realized pretty soon after our move?in that the apartment also came with a perfect landlord – unfortunately, due to our semi-annoying and helpless natures, I’m relatively sure he thinks we’re a little bit less-than-perfect. Moral of our story: if you’re sure NOT to follow our lead, you and your landlord should have a stellar relationship.

1. Do not blow a fuse and then blame it on your landlord.
   Note to all: using four hair dryers at one time WILL cause your apartment to blow a fuse. You should generally avoid doing this, and then following up this action the way we did: with frantic phone calls to the landlord insisting we did nothing wrong, and could he please call the electric company right away.
2. Do not forget to bring your linens in from the clothesline. Our lovely landlord often comes over to check in on us (likely to make sure we’re not burning down the apartment), and for some unknown reason, nothing irritates him more than when we forget to take our linens in off the clothesline. Despite our protests, each time he comes over and he spots clothes on the clothesline, he insists on taking them down and folding them himself. Suit yourself, my friend.
3. Do not call your landlord on a Saturday afternoon to come kill a bug. Ok ok, we take full responsibility for the ridiculousness of this move, but four girls plus one giant cockroach is a recipe for disaster. Our landlord, bless his heart, did come kill this horrible monster-bug for us, but not before giving us a look that clearly said, “Girls, get your act together.” Whoops.