Hey Class,
Recently I had a persuasive discussion with my two other soon-to-be roommates about our apartment living situation. When we arrived at a potential apartment, we were talking to the manager and questioning the pricings and several other questions. However, my other two roommates are inexperienced and are in a rush to just get approved for an apartment now since we will have to move out of the campus apartments soon.
The lady was telling us that we had to all sign one lease and that we could not sign individual leases. I found a problem with that because there are many active court cases right now in which college students are suing their roommates because something happened and the other roommates stopped paying the rest of their lease leaving the balance on the other roommate. I asked the lady if it was possiblity for us to all get individual leases however my potential roommates were telling me to let it go and that the lady already said no.
I kept pleading my case however, and I stressed the importance of individual leasing because if anything happens I want us to be accountable for only ourselves. Finally after using cause-and-effect reasoning I was finally able to get it through my roommates heads as well as the apartment supervisor. In result we were able to sign individual leases.
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Hey!
ReplyDeleteI liked how you were experienced with the whole leasing thing and what not. I probably would have not thought of that, since I've never moved out before. Which is kind of lame, but I live here in San Jose, so I thought that I should save my money.
But anyways, that's cool that you persuaded all 3 people to consider your opinion. It only makes sense that you wouldn't want to be accountable for the other 2 room mates, and I'm sure that they weren't thinking about that all. It's always good to analyze and to speak your mind, in case other people don't think of whatever at the time.
Good luck with the room mates and the apartment! :]
Hello Beautiful! Good job on getting individual leases. Doing your homework when it comes to roommates is very important. I am glad you were able to use reasoning. Was there a different type of reasoning you used during this interaction? :)
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