Total lack of respect. Ad for rental home ($1095) said to call G&G, but my call at noon was not returned on Wednesday. I went to the office at 3:30 on Thursday afternoon and it was locked up tight. Applications were on the door. I put the application into the mail slot at 5:30 Thursday... door was locked but lights were on and heat came out of the mail slot. Friday morning I finally received a call from the owner of G&G (Sharon), who is also the owner of the home for rent. We set up an appointment for the next morning -- she let me pick a time. 10:30. Both my daughter and I drove to the home and arrived prior to 10:30. Another couple, who had called after I had called, had been told to show up at the same time !! AND Sharon took them through the home first, even over our protests, asking us to wait outdoors (cold and rainy) in our car until they had finished viewing the home. She said not to worry -- it didn't matter who saw it first, only who applied for it first. When I asked her why she had set a second appointment at the time we had agreed upon, she said it was because people sometimes don't show up. It was Maya Angelou, or Oprah, who said, ""When someone tells you who they are, listen the first time."" A landlord-tenant relationship is one of TRUST. At that point, wouldn't have mattered to me what the house looked like. Oh, she had pre-qualified me (with a lot of invasive questions, just to see a home!) -- I have a credit score over 800 so I am not an unsuitable tenant.
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