Question about finding an apartment

$435 is a cheap place in my city. *shrug*

I don't believe it is abnormal to require a copy of a social and a driver's license. After all, with a social they can do anything and they need the social to run the background check. The credit card thing is a little odd, however. If this is your first apartment and you have no credit, though, I can see it being a substitute for someone co-signing for you.

I've never heard of a place not taking personal checks. I find that incredibly strange, but maybe that's my part of the country. That would make me incredibly wary. Are we talking a big apartment complex or like a guest house?

All the apartments I have lived in required a cashier's check or money order for the down payment/deposit/first last/whatever, and accepted personal checks thereafter. If this place really does only cash, I'd make that little bitch sign me a big ol' receipt every single time I made a payment.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You guys do realize that in a place where apartments are cheaper, wages are probably also cheaper?

I'm thinking we're not teaching enough economics in high school.

There's nowhere I can't reach.