What is your profile?
While searching for a room or house for rent, you would have confronted this question “What is your profile?” from your Real Estate agent or landlord (LL).
This is a regular question asked to understand about you before renting. You would have fondly replied to such a question with answers like.
Name : xxx
Move-in date : xxxx
Rent for how many people: xxxx
Lease term: 1 year
You will still be probed with more questions such as.
1. What is your nationality?
2. Are you, Local or a foreigner?
3. If foreigner then what type of pass do you hold? Etc
So whenever an agent or LL asks, “What is your profile?” please be ready with these replies.
Once you answered all the questions and hoping to start a discussion with your Lessor, one of the following three scenarios may happen..
if you are lucky you will receive a reply (that means your profile suits the agent or the Landlord) to discuss rental and other property viewing arrangements. (or)
Suppose if your profile doesn’t suit the expectations of the agent or LL , you get this reply sorry profile won’t suit.
Many times, you won’t even get a reply! Yes, there are people who won’t bother to reply, if your profile won’t suit their expectations.
Now let’s consider scenario 2 and scenario 3, as our brains are tuned to seek completion you keep pressing for answers with questions like…
What is the issue with my profile?
Can you please reply?
Many kind real estate agents will reply, "Sorry landlord is only looking for tenants,
“who are non - XXXXXXX ( fill in your nationality)” or
“tenants who are holding “XXXX (fill in your pass type)
Some agents still won’t reply to any number of follow-up messages.
It’s my judgment, they are not comfortable communicating explicitly the reasons, or there could be several other reasons, which I will leave it to your judgment & conclusion.
If you are like any other tenant, you will move on to the next available property advertisement and start answering the same questions again, but some tenants get upset or even frustrated.
At adobha, we handle such enquireis differently. While searching for tenants, we also ask “what is your profile?”, yet the only difference between us and others is we definitely answer all your questions and we ensure none of the questions goes unanswered. Foreigners from India / Bangladesh / Srilanka / Vietnam’s/ Philippines holding different long-term work pass ask us “will my profile suit you”?
Yes, why not? For us, it’s always,
Yaadum voorey, yaavarum kayleer!
“யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்”
Words of a great Tamil poet, Kaniyan Poongunranar (6 BCE to 1 CE ) and it means,
“the world is my homeland and all people are my kin”.
At Adobha we live and operate by this value.
We always have a place for you in our hearts and our homes, you are welcome to stay with us as long as you wish! We don’t discriminate against anyone based on nationality or language or the type of pass one holds. While hosting you at our place, we only try to understand, if you will be willing to respect other housemates’ privacy, cultural & religious beliefs. Of course, we also screen for your ability to pay rent on time.
Adobha is a truly inclusive co-living operator, contact us for all your accommodation needs.
