I'll pass, thanks ...

[Pixelated]

So I'm getting apartment-to-rent notices in my email inbox, and I opened one up and started to scan the offerings.

Here's one: "2 beds, 0 baths."



Can I at least hope there's an outhouse nearby?

[dalesys]

... Can I at least hope there's an outhouse nearby?

"We are not privy to that information."

[telecom_goddess]

What I never understood is when apartment listings say they have amenities like a refrigerator, and a stove! Like it's something extra. Aren't they necessary and standard? If they didn't have those appliances something would be really wrong.

[EricKei]

It really depends on the area, the seller, and the price point. One can reasonably expect that a house will have the proper *hookups* for such appliances, but actually having them is just uncommon enough to be worth mentioning (these and many more amenities are part of the listing details that Realtors see (my bro is one)). Also, some folks prefer to use their own, known stuff. In the case of a fridge -- which should really be replaced every decade or so if it was made after the 70's -- not having the old one taking up space could be a GOOD thing.

Well...that, and listing appliances (and especially furniture!) that will stay with the house can be used as a reason to add a few grand to the asking price.

[KuariKaydrith]

As long as they give you a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out of, maybe they figure that will be enough?

[Racket_Man]

I rented most of my adult life and there was only one apt I rented that did not have a stove or fridge. this was because the guy was just starting out renting his upstairs so we agreed to get some cheap used stove and fridge and take it off the rent.

I thought that having a stove and fridge was one thing what was (most of the time) included in renting an apt (whether in a complex or the upper on some ones house). I do not understand why a landlord would require a renter to bring their own appliances?

I know where I live heat is usually included as part of the rent. this is separate from the electric useage.

[Nunavut Pants]

In some areas, it is standard for rental apartments not to have all of the appliances. Refrigerators, in particular. In other areas, it is almost unheard of for them not to come with the apartment. I haven't moved that much, but I have seen each.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Typically, I'll usually see listings in this area for both homes and apartments and at least a stove is included - sometimes a fridge but not always.

If you're renting from an apartment group, then stove and fridge would typically be included.

From my own limited experience when we moved into our current home, there was a stove already here. But it was a 36 inch and we already had a 40 inch stove that was in perfect working order - luckily the space in the kitchen for the stove was just big enough to slide that 40 inch in and we were good to go.

We've replaced the stove twice . . . 2nd one we had only stayed a year or so b/c Mom didn't like the black/chrome look (came from Sears and had a built in griddle in the middle of the top IIRC.) She switched that out for our current stove, which is a white 40 inch GE back in 1996 and it's still going strong.

[Mental_Mouse]

My sister once had an apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen, and the toilet was in a closet barely large enough to sit down on it (and I'm not a big guy).

This was one of New York City's ancient tenement apartments -- the reason my sister was living there was because it was also one of the precious few apartments still under "rent control", which is practically the only way a recent college grad could afford to live in Manhattan. Those apartments never go on the market -- they get passed from friend to friend to relative.

[MadMike]

My sister once had an apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen, and the toilet was in a closet barely large enough to sit down on it (and I'm not a big guy).

I never had a bathtub in a kitchen, but the toilet part sounds like this one place I rented. The bathtub, along with the washer and dryer hookups, was in a separate room that looked like it was added on later. There was no running water upstairs, so I'm guessing the place was old enough that it predated indoor plumbing, and they retrofitted it in later, but didn't want to tear up the walls anymore than they had to.