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Saturday 17 May 2014

House hunting

Recently a friend was posted to Delhi from Ludhiana. He left his  wife and three children with his mother-in-law temporarily, till he  he was able to find a suitable accommodation.He wanted to stay in a hotel.We offered our guest room till he could find a suitable accommodation. He  happily agreed to  our proposal. He joined his office the next day and decided  to go for house hunting on the week end.  In the mean time he started  marking  the advertisements in different newspapers. He wanted to take a house in South Delhi. Hence only the houses  available  in South Delhi were marked. In Ludhiana he was paying Rs. 35,000/ as rent for a three bed room house, which had a lawn in  front and the back yard.He had an estimated budget of Rs.60,000. On Sunday morning my husband accompanied his  friend  for house hunting.  They must have seen at least six or seven houses. But the rent was touching the sky.  In a dark and dingy  lane they saw a house,which had only three small rooms and the rent quoted was 50,000 rupees. Both of them came home tired and dejected.I consoled him ,"Don't be disheartened. Next week you may find some thing better."The whole week, he again earmarked some houses in the newspaper. He contacted a property agent, who gave him great hope that he would be able to arrange a house  within his estimated budget.The experience that he got in the second week end was worse than  the previous week.
 I told him to leave the desire of obtaining a residential accommodation in South Delhi. In the evening he phoned his wife. At first she started  taunting him that he was unable to accomplish even such a small task. Then I spoke to her and told her the position.After hearing from me she seemed to be relaxed. She gave a green signal to her husband  to search in other areas. I also advised him to take leave for a week , if he wanted some concrete  result.Now started a thorough searching program. The two friends left  for house hunting in the morning and came back in the evening. From the contours of their face I could judge that there was no success. It became a daily routine. They discussed the experience that they had during the day. Listening  to their observations we all had a hearty laugh. One land lord said that  no nonvegetarian food  was allowed to be cooked. Another  said  that a couple with more than two children  will not be given the house.  In another place the condition was that no body would be allowed to enter the house after nine'o clock at night. Another interesting condition which one of  the landlords   prescribed was that the lady of the house  should not be a working woman (how funny!) and wanted the marriage certificate of the couple. My husband's friend was disgusted.  He had come to Delhi on promotion. Next day, he submitted an application to his boss for reverting him back to a  lower position and post him back to Ludhiana. His parting words were,"Every thing can be achieved in this city, but it is impossible to get a rented accommodation without fulfilling a plethora of impossible  conditions." 
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25 comments:

  1. All reasons apart, I find the condition of the woman should not be working more absurd! What problem could the land lord have with it!!!

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    1. That, and the condition on the number of children too is to be for grins!

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    2. Thank you Soumyaa. The landlords sometimes put ridiculous conditions. Welcome to my site.

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    3. Thank you Swathi.The conditions that the landlords put have no explanation. It is as if they are the law makers.

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  2. South Delhi is always expensive in terms of rent.West and East are relatively cheaper.I hope such landlords who impose weird conditions are very few.My experience in Delhi with landlords was pleasant and they were friendly.

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    1. Thanks KP. You are fortunate that you had pleasant experiences with landlords. Thankfully we have a house of our own. We have faced such weird conditions in the past.

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  3. OMG ! 50K as Rent ? Can't even imagine it !
    And what's with the lady of the house working ?? I don't see any logic in that!

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    1. Yes Sreeja 50K as rent is not surprising in Delhi. The rents in some areas fetch 80 to 100 K.

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  4. Rentals have hit the sky.
    In Gurgaon condominiums ,three bedroom apartments are for 80-100 K

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  5. It reminds me of the days in India where I was getting dejected and looking for houses tirelessly. Now, that I am planning to be back in a year, I will have to look in the outskirt. But, it's also true that with mushrooming of real estate, nothing come cheap and a sad fact we need to deal with.

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    1. Yes Vishal, real estate prices are sky rocketing.

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  6. What a horrible scenario. :(

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    1. Yes Ava it is frightening. Where were you ? Missed you.

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  7. I think, the gentleman ought to have send his wife to hunt for houses.

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  8. Earth Infrastructure Ltd is tentatively launching its new Commercial Project Earth Sky Gate in sector 88 Gurgaon. This project is on 75mtr wide road in Front and 150mtr road on side(2 side open) with 24mtr service lane.

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  9. The conditions OMG... Even working women's hostels don't have so many rules. A marriage certificate was required Gosh.. This is ridiculous.

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    1. Thank you Tulika Such conditions are intriguing.

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  10. Landlords do oppose weird conditions, but insisting on the lady tenant being a homemaker is ridiculous.

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    1. Thank you Reshma. . The conditions are too weird.

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  11. Wow...So expensive? looks like many cities in USA are cheaper :) Landlords and their conditions...ufff..

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    1. Thanks Latha. The conditions in all big cities is very bad and landlords take advantage of the position.

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