Renting An Apartment

When people go outside to work, they probably need to rent an apartment by themselves.

I live in ShangHai now, where the house price is fairly high, and it ranks in the top 8 in the world. When I first came to ShangHai, I felt ShangHai was really a beautiful city, and everything was pretty good, such as the weather, transportation, and people's quality.

Most People in China believe ShangHai is a good place, where people get good education, and have big plans, so they have more ideas making money.

After more than one year's life in ShangHai, I've changed a lot. like the requirements for the quality of life, the ideas to make more money with my current income, and the expectations for my feature life. I think this is kind of progress for me - at least I have realized I should work hard for a better life.

When I just came to ShangHai, I lived in a very small apartment, which was smaller than 10 square meters, and 6 girls shared the same room. It was a really difficult period for us, since the air quality was really bad, and there was only a small window. What was worse, there were 6 boys living in the opposite room, whose shoes smelled foul and terrible. What made it unforgivable for us was that they always put their shoes besides our unique window, which pollute our room.

After two months, we finally moved out and began to rent an apartment by ourselves. Since we had no ideas about the rental and where to find an available apartment, we decided to find an agent to help us. After finding several agents, we finally got an expected apartment, but it was a little expensive for our income at that time. After bargaining with the landlord, she gave us a decent price- 2300RMB/month. Then we three girls tried out all the machines, such as washing machine, microwave, freezer, TV and other furniture. After signing the tenancy agreement and paying for one month's deposit, we moved into the apartment.

There were 3 bedrooms, one sitting room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a balcony, where we can air clothes and bedding. Our landlord lived in the next door, so she always visited us. If there were any problems with the electric, bulb, and water pipe, she always helped to ask an electrician or plumber to fix it, but made us pay for it.

Later, we found out the owner was very stingy, and always wanted to get small benefits from us. We decided to find another apartment and moved out to our current apartment.

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