BANG!!! I got my apartment. Everything is so personal here. Want an example? I got an apartment without a credit check (what's a credit check?) for 12,500 Saudi Arabian Riyals every six months. I only had 12,400 on me and wanted to keep 2,000 so that I can buy some basics until I get my pay at the end of the month. In Saudi, you deal with the owner directly, (or his immediate assistant manager). I spoke with this guy, a man from the Qurashi tribe, (same tribe that the Prophet Muhammad was from) and asked if I could just pay 10,000 and owe him the rest until the end of the month. Without a second thought he agreed and had me write the contract (since I wouldn't understand the Arabic very much) and handed me a copy. I gave him the money, he gave me a recipt for the money that I gave him and he gave me the key. Oh yeah! Try making life that simple in America.
Tomorrow I will begin the preparations of moving in: hiring an exterminator (just in case), getting an air conditioner and a mini-fridge, and a mattress. The rest I will buy when my wife gets here.
-- Bill,
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