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[rootofnewt]

Okay... we're looking at houses and apartments in Charlottesville pretty steadily. I've been reading the want ads for a couple months... And now we're calling places.

Actually, explodingcat is calling places. For some reason, I can't bear to call strangers on the phone. Boy, horribly shy, can call these places, while social me cannot. ;)

Anyhow, I don't understand landlords. They advertise places they want to fill NOW. THey didn't advertise last week or last month, but NOW. See, I read my lease, I give one-two months' notice, per the lease agreement. I like to have a place lined up BEFORE I give notice. Why don't landlords realize this? Are other renters so evil and late?

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[ashbet]

Plus, it's hard to show an apartment that has people *living* in it . . . I know that I'd be furious if I'd given notice and then my landlord decided to parade people through my place. I *believe* it's even illegal (to take people into a rental property when it's still occupied, without the tenant's permission -- and even WITH the tenant's permission, the landlord would then be liable if anything were stolen or damaged).

So the landlords have to have an empty place in order to advertise/show it, which means they want to rent it NOW.

In an apartment complex, there are usually 'equivalent' empty apartments that they show, but for private landlords and the type of housing you guys are looking for, they can't exactly have prospective renters traipsing through the place while the previous tenant is still resident.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help . . . **hugs**

-- Andi