Bachelor padding: Luxury and the single guy(Or what your viewing patterns say about you)

Had a bachelor client who rented a showflat because it had ready, (untouched) cutlery, bedding- bascially the prototypical agent’s idea of ‘move in condition- just bring luggage’ type of apartment.

I tend to categorise bachelor residences into two categories- the pristine, magazine-worthy type with nothing in the kitchen, (apparently the case study of this article in the International Herald Tribune), and the bachelor who cooks, with clothes and dishes left over for the maid’s weekly visit.

This storyline must have been in a telenovella or other forms of pulp fiction I consume on a regular basis but am sure there was a fictional character(somewhere) who had to decide between one guy, his dogs and his country ranch house and another guy(an architect, methinks), and his pet-free, fashionably restored, pristine mid-century modern house.

Charlotte in Sex and the City concluded that a guy buying a townhouse must be planning for a family(voiceover: Carrie-Some people read palms. Charlotte read real estate). Real estate indicators and looking at how someone lives must be amongst the best ways of assessing a person’s marriage-ability. Following that (il?)logical trajectory, real estate agents must make for the best matchmakers around, which is why, apparently, some real estate agents are moonlighting(ok- value added service) as matchmakers for their single clients.

An excerpt from the article-

Brokers are also used to distinguishing between perennial shoppers and relationship-ready clients. Those who view dozens of spaces but find fault with every one, or are always about to make an offer only to back out at the last minute, may not be ready to commit to a property or a partner. That’s why Kleier Forbes says she waited to introduce attorney Amy Schulder, for whom she’d found a rental, to a sports-marketing executive client until he signed a contract for a two-bedroom. “I wanted to see if he was a window shopper or a buyer,” she says. (For the record, the couple clicked and has been dating for a few weeks.)