Apartment Inquiry

So now let’s try to use some of these phrases in a real situation and I’m going to try to make it as realistic as possible.

Let’s say for example you move to America OK or let’s say you already live here and you want to move to another place.

I use America because I’m American so I know kind of how it works.

I’ve had many apartments before.

An apartment is a place people live in a larger building usually it’s not a stand alone building a standalone building is probably called a house and maybe only one family lives there.

An apartment is usually in a larger building and it’s usually smaller.

OK so we’re gonna do an apartment inquiry or inquiry and we’re gonna be calling the landlord can also say landlady.

Now this is the owner of the apartment.

The owner of the apartment.

If it’s not the owner then it’s probably a broker or agent in America.

And for example in New York an agent will take a fee and I guess that’s probably true anywhere in the world.

So if you go through an agent you probably need to pay more if you can call the landlord or landlady or owner directly that’s usually better in this situation we’re going to actually call the WE’RE GONNA GET THE NUMBER OF THE LANDLORD AND WE’RE GONNA CALL and we’re gonna get some information because we’re interested in the apartment.

Now there are many ways to find an apartment in America.

There are a lot of Web sites you can you can of course go to an agency you can look in the maybe the newspaper but there are some popular web web sites that you can use like Craigslist dot com.

And there are some other ones like Zillow dot com.

And who knows maybe when you’re watching this it’s 50 years from now for when this is being filmed and there’s a completely different way of doing this but we use generally a Web site then we’ll find a a listing find a listing listing is basically a post that someone has put up on one of these Web sites and we usually search based on some certain criteria.

We have some criteria.

This is what we’re searching.

Maybe I’m looking for a one bedroom and this is often abbreviated as B R one bedroom one bathroom.

So if you see one B are one B R that means one bedroom one bathroom bedroom is usually first.

So if you see to be are one bra that means two bedrooms one bathroom if you see to be are too bizarre it means two bedrooms two bathrooms you get the idea.

You’ll also often see how many square feet in America we usually use feet feet to measure.

So it’ll say often F T R S Q F T like that square feet square feet.

If you’re in another country then maybe it’s square meter square meter.

Right.

And then of course you’ll see the asking price asking price or the price per month the rent.

We often call this just the rent and let’s say it’s 1000 let’s say we’re looking for something that’s one thousand five hundred dollars.

OK one thousand five hundred dollars.

The poster or the listing will also have probably the neighborhood.

So let’s say it’s in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn isn’t a neighborhood.

Brooklyn is a burrow in New York.

Let’s say the neighborhood is Greenpoint.

OK.

So we see a post we see a listing.

It says one bedroom one B R one B R and it’s a one bedroom one bathroom it’s in Greenpoint.

And the rent is one thousand five hundred which maybe is too expensive.

We think it’s too much.

Actually that’s pretty cheap.

One thousand five hundred for Greenpoint.

That’s pretty cheap and maybe there are some extra details here.

Let’s say it says its newly renovated.

That means there was some old things and those things were taken out and maybe there’s a new kitchen.

They completely redid the apartment and maybe it also says it’s fully furnished now furnished or unfurnished furnished means that there’s a sofa there’s a bed.

All of that stuff is already there unfurnished means there’s nothing except for appliances appliances are maybe the microwave the sometimes the TV dishwasher the oven perhaps these are air conditioning.

These are appliances furnishings are bed sofa tables chairs that sort of thing.

So let’s say it’s fairly full before it’s fully furnished and newly renovated.

And these are the other details here and there’s a phone number.

Hey so we’re gonna call the phone number and we’re going to talk directly to the land lord.