On: Oh, You’re Freelance? Good Luck Renting an Apartment

[thatgerhard]

I own a small web company. people who work for me are able to get bonds for houses, I had to jump through a crazy amount of hoops, including accountant letters and office landlord letters to just rent an apartment.

[thepangolino → thatgerhard]

Modern society is full of those incongruities.

I bought an apartment in Belgium while in between jobs. In order to get a loan I had to get a job as a cashier, essentially taking a cut in my net income (unemployment payments are very generous in Belgium.)