In showing people apartments, I get new questions every day and just when I think I've heard them all, I get a new one. Usually it's people trying to find ways for me to not check their credit: "I have a class action lawsuit pending and my credit is closed and can't be viewed" they say or "If I paid the year's rent up front, would you still have to do a credit check?"

Today I had someone call and ask me questions for a half hour over the phone about very specific elements of our apartments. The answers would be readily apparent when she came in for her appointment at five o clock, but she kept asking regardless. Her questions were very thorough and very subjective: "Is there a lot of counter space?" is something that I would answer yes to, but other people have a different idea of what constitutes ample counter space. And she wasn't asking if we had ample counter space, but rather excessive counter space. You walk a tricky line in telling people what they will think when they visit. I was also asked what type of faucets we have, if there is a snack bar, and if a woman would say that we have enough counter space in the bathroom.

My favorite question, however, was "compared to a 3 bedroom ranch house bathroom, how big are your bathrooms?"

She also asked me to explain what the floor plan looked like when entering the door as if we were playing some incredibly mundane version of modern-day Dungeons and Dragons.

It's currently well past her appointment time of 5:00 and after all that she isn't even coming to visit.