applying for apartments is a pain in the butt
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Wait until you have to sign mortgage.
Same thing with medical intake forms and all kinds of paperwork.
On the bright side, fifty years from now cursive writing will probably be obsolete and handwritten signatures will no longer be used for identification. The downside is most of us will be dead before then.
That ship has already sailed.
Well, it has for me, at least. For the past 40 years or so, I've only used block printing. My cursive handwriting is an illegible scrawl that even I can't read.
When I was in third grade and the teacher said "Now we're going to learn cursive writing," I thought she meant we were going to learn all the swear words!
You mean you didn't learn all the swear words by the third grade?
I can tell you for a fact that I got in trouble with the PE teacher because I called a classmate a son of a bitch when I smacked him across the face during gym one day. Thank you, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
I only discovered recently that cursive means joined up writing and before that assumed it meant expletives as in to curse. 'Joined up writing' is how I learnt it at school. I hate forms that require BLOCK CAPITALS because I always ruin it with joined up writing so either need a new form or submit that one and look like a simpleton with all the corrections 
Although I did learn the term "cursive" later in life, if I remember correctly, when we were learning, our teachers just referred to it as "writing", versus "printing".
"Printing" is what you do with a printing press. Writing block lettering is, well "block lettering."
Anyway
applying for an apartment while it needs to get done, its still a pain in the butt and a chore. Not only with constantly writing your signature at the bottom of every page, but having to make a copy of personal info like social security card etc, to me thats kind of shady for people asking you for personal stuff like that when applying for an apartment.
applying for an apartment while it needs to get done, its still a pain in the butt and a chore. Not only with constantly writing your signature at the bottom of every page, but having to make a copy of personal info like social security card etc, to me thats kind of shady for people asking you for personal stuff like that when applying for an apartment.
Are you joking? Have you not ventured out into the world much? There is one rule: People SUCK. If you are going to rent out your property, you need to be DAMN sure that they aren't going to skip out on the rent, damage the property, or set up some drug lab or something equally illegal on the premises. It is a business, not a charity, so they will get every piece of information that they can legally obtain.
If applying for an apartment gets your knickers in a bunch, good luck trying to apply for a mortgage, an insurance policy, a government job, college or anything else of any consequence. Such is life.
Someplaces are charging applicants a filing fee as well as a fee to cover credit checks. This is during the preliminary application stage. Can get quite expensive at $50-100 per apartment.
I know years ago, I was in-town for a short weekend trying to find an apartment and they wanted a bank check for the deposit. On a Sunday. I explained that I was flying out that afternoon and that I would not be moving in for another 4-6 weeks by which my personal check would have cleared by then.
My current property owner really likes me. I pay my rent 10 days early.
I know years ago, I was in-town for a short weekend trying to find an apartment and they wanted a bank check for the deposit. On a Sunday. I explained that I was flying out that afternoon and that I would not be moving in for another 4-6 weeks by which my personal check would have cleared by then.
My current property owner really likes me. I pay my rent 10 days early.
That's a fairly narrow definition, though. What about all those forms that remind you to "please print clearly"?
I hate moving. Hate, hate, HATE it.
By contrast, writing my name over and over on some papers is nothing.
Seconded.
