Another one bites the dust..

It's been three weeks into this apartment hunting in Santa Barbara, and I have not had success. I've never had this much trouble finding an apartment to rent.

I just got a call last night from a rental management company advising me that Kevin and I were not selected as new tenants for their apartment. They had several showings for this unit and got handful of applicants. She told us we were not considered because our salary was not high enough. Wow, our salary combined is well into six digits. The rent was only $1600. How much do they want us to make?

Here was one interesting ad:

Wood floors, garden view, one bedroom at Park East across from Alameda Park. Water, trash paid. Stove, refrigerator. Laundry on site. No co-signers, no pets, no smoking or musical instruements. NO EMAILS! Call only:

I thought finding an apartment that would consider a pet was difficult! I have two guitars, one violin, and a electric piano. We don't rock out or anything. Maybe who ever lived there before was a musician who had regular band practices there.

Earlier this week, I finally tracked down a landlord that we had submitted our application to last week. She said we were the first applicant and would get back to us shortly after checking our references. After several days have passed, I called my own references to see if she had called them and she had not. When I got her on the phone, she said "Oh, I meant to call you. I went with someone else." I was furious that she didn't have the courtesy to call me and let me know! I daydreamed about burning her house down. I know I know... I can't take these things personally.

I just bought a rental list for $49.99 that comes out every Tuesday and Friday afternoon. 75% of the listings that I called were already rented! I am looking at three apartments today one of them has got to want to rent to me!!