QUOTE (invst4profit @ Oct 16 2008, 11:59 AM) Knowing in advance what each did for a living rank the following individuals that have applied to live in your single family up scale rental (upper class neighbourhood) by your first to last choice. Give your reasoning for each choice.
White Collar Criminal
Professional Baseball Player
Wall Street Drug Dealer
High Class Call Girl
City Official
Air Traffic Controller
International Model
I will assume that your reference to the Wall Street Drug Dealer means this question regarding your upscal rental is in NYC. MY wife and I spent a week in NYC this summer, so we have a pretty good feel for rents there. a small, old, poorly located 1-bedroom apt in Manhattan is no less than $3,000 per month. A decent 2-3 bedroom apt, reasonable well located runs no less than $10,000 per month. So our tenant had better be making New York type income to afford our furnished apt.
So to keep this simple I would first discard all the applicants except the City Official and the Air Traffic Controller and the International Model, as, given the melt-down going on currently, they will be the only ones still earning enough money to pay the rent.
As the Model will become yesterday`s news before the lease runs out, and will be broke and addicted to something, I will shred her application next.
The City Official would be likely to be suffering more economically than the Air Traffic Controller, as their sources of income-on-the-side (remember, this is NYC) would have pretty much dried up.
So I am left with only the Air Traffic Controller to rent to, and the interesting positive with that person would be their dimished stress levels due to the reduction in air travel, as no-one in the US can afford to fly now.