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How many can you check off this Irish renters' bucket list?
The good, the bad and the ugly. Renting has it all.
RENTING CAN BE fun. But it can also be a nightmare.
You haven’t really experienced the full extent of life until you have shared a house with some eccentric strangers. For better or for worse, you will certainly learn a lot about yourself and the world around you from renting.
1. You have had a floor adorned with carpet from pre-1980. Or even worse – lino.
2. The kitchen appliances were pushed to the limit.
3. Light fixtures that show some ‘rustic’ exposed wiring are now a point of sentimentality for you.
4. Storage heaters. Who really knows what they are all about?
5. Layering – your idea of central heating.
6. You have harboured a pet and experienced the feeling of impending doom whenever the doorbell rang.
7. You didn’t check your signal during the viewing…
8. Daydreaming about painting and renovating the glorified shack you called home was all that got you through your twelve month contract.
9. Your furniture was smashed up/defiled/stolen during a party so you have attempted to convince the landlord that you never actually had a coffee table/couch/locker.
10. The open viewing evening you set up to find a new roomie turned into a party.
11. The result? Your new housemate thought every night was a party.
12. Everything said housemate did came close to sending you over the edge.
13. You eventually snapped and subsequently lived in a house of divided fridge shelves and passive aggressive notes.
14. It all got a bit much and you decided to be the bigger person and move out.
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