Ben Rosen

My Apartment Search Dealbreakers

I’ve spent the last few months looking for an apartment. The problem is that every time I go into a place, I find something wrong with it - some expectation of my dream apartment isn’t met, and since I’m a perfectionist, I simply can’t live there. No hardwood floors? That’s a dealbreaker.

The following is the full list of those dealbreakers. I still do not have an apartment.

  • No hardwood floors
  • No full kitchen
  • No air conditioner
  • No monkey butler
  • No giant keyboard from Big
  • No wise old elevator operator to give me advice and a shoulder to cry on
  • No murder next door that I can solve so I can win back my badge and gun
  • No naked wax statue of Michael Cera that I can use to test outfits because if it doesn’t look good on him, what chance to I have?
  • No expensive paintings with even more expensive long lost paintings or copies of the Declaration of Independence hidden underneath
  • No grotto
  • No dungeon
  • No Pee Wee Herman breakfast machine
  • No patches of concrete with cracks that have roses growing out of them which act as a metaphor for something or other
  • No mysterious ooze that leaks from under the sink that gives me strange but spellbinding romantic powers
  • No dishwasher