Yesterday - as I already mentioned - we went to check out our first apartment (at least potentially ours, right?). The flat belongs to Ale's mother's lawyer, at least in theory...
We met ith him in his office in the center and he explained us that the flat has one room, plus a separate kitchen and bathroom and is under renovation at the moment. There is no furniture and no fridge, so provisionally we bargained the deal down to 500 pesos plus the expenses (as we must buy the fridge, and we are poor etc. etc.), which is incredibly good. Constantino (the lawyer) called the guy who is renovating the place (Alex - Ukrainian) that we'd show up shortly and off we went.
The flat is situated in center, next to faculty of medicine (cool - lots of young people), and - as Constantino explained - next to one beutiful building that was transported there from Italy, piece by piece. Nevermind that for now (yes, it's beautiful allright...).
We got there, Alex met us downstairs and led the way. The flat is a bit dark and with no particular view (we don't consider a brick wall a view...) but since it will be painted and all it definitely has a potential, and - of course - the price makes it quite beautiful for us hehehe...
We merely managed to see everything when in one moment 3 old "senoras" barged inside, opened the eyes (and mouths) wide in surprised, took a deep breath and started shouting something that after a while managed to resemble "what are you doing here and who are you and where have you got the keys from?". So we started explaining that we just came here to have a look at the place, in case we want to rent it and that we were sent by the owner. Bad move. One of the "senoras" explained - in quite undiplomatic way - that she was the owner of the place and it is her heritage. Whatever. We wanted to say goodbye and leave as soon as possible, but other of the "senoras" accused us of various things (like stealing argentinian land, jobs, properties etc etc.) and ordered us to stay as she intended to call the police, due to "violencia de domicilio". So all of a sudden we were intruders... Wonderful. Me, Niki and poor Alex told her that we were leaving at the very moment and she should stop talking nonsense - after all we didn't rent the flat just yet, we merely came to see it, but in this case we were not quite likely to come back. And off we went...
All in all the flat is okay, but if the situation is not clear we'd better steer away from it. At least for now.
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