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    I am in the looking for an apartment and having a really hard time with finding a place. I feel like I have to lie on applications because I'm a stripper. I'm also a student and don't feel like living with roommates who would have a negative view on my job. I recently saw a room where the girl said she wouldn't want me to live with her because she is not into the fast life. I also know a fellow stripper who's landlord has made advancements towards her and asked her for a dance. I just wondering about peoples experiences and what are there opinions on this topic.
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    I personally would not bother telling a landlord I am a stripper. There is really nothing to be gained from it. You could easily make something up for your "occupation". If they need references, just ask a friend to help you out so you can back up whatever you said you were. Or you can just tell them the truth and say you are a student and your parents are helping you out or something.

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    Don't tell them you're a stripper. They will assume you are a junkie and will have wild parties and crazy sexcapades in the apartment, and that you may be irresponsible about the rent.

    I always say I do freelance computer work. Most landlords and rental agents don't know much computer jargon so it's easy to fudge a good story, and I have 'references'. Tell them I have a regular company I do work for monthly, and I get additional projects through elance.com - it's a real site they can look up if they want. I have bank statements that show regular deposits and enough income to prove I have the money to pay, and good past rental references. That's really all they care about. You don't have to necessarily say you have a regular company, just that you get 'projects' regularly, and as long as you've got regular deposits on your bank statements to back yourself up, it should be fine. If they ask what kind of projects, I say I do alot of html coding and editing, site administration, digitizing catalogs, etc. That's usually enough to stop them asking anymore questions because they're afraid of getting too deep into a techie conversation, hehe. Go to and read some of the stuff to get ideas on what you can say.

    When you go to look at a place, get dressed in very plain clothes, nothing tight or short or revealing, wear no makeup (or just a little concealer) and your hair plain, and maybe put on some glasses - even if they're non-prescription. Walk in with quiet confidence and be cool answering questions, just throwing the answers out as if you talk about that stuff all day long. Also tell them you're a student and the freelance work allows you more time to study. If your major is not computer related and they ask about it, say you have always messed with computers as a hobby and you taught yourself html, and found you could make money with it while in school. Go to a couple places you really aren't interested in just to get the practice doing the 'interview' before you go to the ones you might really want. Once you have your story down you'll be able to get any apartment you want as long as you have the bank statements to show enough income!

    When I move to a new town I get into a reasonably priced extended stay hotel - they have kitchens and laundry facilities on premises, and usually pools and sometimes exercise facilities. They give discounts if you pay by the month. This is a decent alternative to use while you search for long term housing. Then the first thing I do is open a local checking account and start making regular deposits, enough to total at least $2500 per month - you should be depositing at least 4 times what your monthly rent would be, because that's the general formula landlords look for. Use the checking account to pay living expenses while saving the rest elsewhere. I usually don't bother looking for a place during the first month - just work, make the deposits and save...and spend a little time driving through neighborhoods to learn the area and where I might want to live. After the second month starts I start searching. By that time I have a month of local deposits I can show.

    Oh yeah if you have bad credit, no rental references or whatever, you can always wait until you have enough to cover like 3 months of rent plus deposit. When the landlord or rental agent asks to check your credit, tell them straight up you don't have good credit but you'd be willing to pay for 3 months of rent in advance if they'll rent the place to you. That should work 99% of the time.

    If your rent budget is low, consider looking for a studio rather than a roommate - that way you'll have your privacy and no one to bug you about your weird hours when you come home from work at night.

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    I agree, i would not mention my job. (gosh do they ask)?
    Stripers = drugs, parties, and lots of men to them.

    Either that, or of it's a guy, he may have other motives.


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    the double whammy is that lanlords will also jack-up the rent if they know you are a dancer.
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    I know at my apartment, they did not ask where I work, but they asked for my actual paystub.

    How can you fake a paystub?

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    I've had the best luck with private owners as opposed to property managers. I realize you're looking for an apt. so maybe you'd be better off looking for a condo being rented out by a private owner. Property managers tend to be sticklers when it comes to verifying employment and references; If you click well with a private owner and have the necessary deposit you're usually ok. The last two private owners I rented from DID NOT VERIFY ONE THING ON MY APPLICATION.


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    Most landlords don't care as long as you pay on time. I've never had a problem and I've always been honest about being a stripper.

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    As a dancer or any self employed person, never tell anyone you are self employed. you must have a work front.

    Smart people have a mail drop as a work front and a fictitious business name and phone listed under that business and create a job title and income that matches their age which is 3 times the rent.

    Create paystubs with proper withholding to show. Have a friend who is business like be your current landlord to verify that you lived there for the period of time you put on the app and say that you paid rent on time.

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    Create paystubs with proper withholding to show. Have a friend who is business like be your current landlord to verify that you lived there for the period of time you put on the app and say that you paid rent on time.
    Why advise someone to lie and forge documents? Here in California, forgery is a 6 year prison sentence. Stripping is legal. There is no reason to lie.

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    Sara, that is bullshit. My guy worked credit repair in CA. No way in hell anyone will go to jail for this unless they are total dipshits.


    I have no patience for goody tu shoes. Some people aren't mentally swift enough to be self employed because they don't know how to tell people what they want to hear to get what they want.

    Whether you are a stripper or in any business where your income is undocumented, you must prove financial stability and to landlords and creditors it is length of employment in an acceptable salaried career.

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    The last place I lived in, in San Francisco, I stayed for five years. I paid my rent to the master tenant who also happened to be a roommate as well.

    There was always one other girl living there with us. I was honest and told him I was dancing. He was cool with that, he never came on to me or the other female roommates that I had living with me.

    My problem was that he had been ripped off so much in the past from people in other professions, that made him paranoid. He rarely ever left the house. He was a boring mouse of a man that lived by a simple routine.

    That drove me crazy. However, he never threw me out or threaten to evict me and he gave me back my full deposit when I moved out. I always paid my rent in cash.

    I think my honesty paid off. It was a very nice neighborhood as well.

    In SF, I never had a problem with my job as far as looking for a nice place to live in.

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    It seems to me, that no one has mentioned the obvious--the ease or difficulty of renting truly depends on your location. When I danced in Killeen--nobody cared that I was a dancer. In a military town, lots of single women are dancers. But when I moved to small town Ohio--I had heck getting ANYTHING in town. So brendalee, if you live in a hard to rent area for a dancer, then here's what I'll do--give them my 800 number, and you will be my employee---you can be one of my "salespeople". If you need the help, just PM me and I will send you my 800 number. Peace

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    It is hard. Think about it...as a dancer, if you had a rental unit, would you rent it out to a dancer (provided you knew nothing else about her)

    If it were me, I'd require as much of a deposit as I could legally get....so maybe that's the route to take. Offer a huge deposit, and of course, get it in writing that it's a deposit.

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    I think that it depends on the location and the market and how many vacancies are out there

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    i dunno, alot of my gurls who are dancers have never had a problem with finding a place to live, but after all... this is vegas

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    Vegas is a totally different type of thing. In vegas its socially acceptable to do a lot of things that its not socially acceptable to do or be anywhere else. All my friends that have tried to get apartments being honest and saying they are dancers got the look and never got an available apt., except one. She had someone else go to look at it for her b/c she was out of town. The lady did not realize that and when she showed up she simply showed her tax returns and explained that she was a webmaster, partially true she has a pay site, who contracted out her services to big companies and nixed the whole stripper thing. The contracting thing explained to the lady the large deposits and tax forms a little better and she got the apartment.
    Being a young stripper is a bad thing. Minimal credit and a cash job don't do squat for you trying to rent your first anything without a cosigner. Occassionally, an apt building will let you rent if you pay a large cash down payment, like the equivalent of three months rent if you try to do it without a cosigner. Some may want up to six as collateral that you can pay and will still ask if the place is really pricey. These few will allow you to, if its a 6mnth, pay the first three and take ur downpayment money and pay ur rent with it for your last three if u r a no problem tenant. Some things can be worked out, but at most places either cash, a cosigner, or a fat paystub or tax return talks everything else walks.
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    Default Re: landlords and Strippers.

    I am in the looking for an apartment and having a really hard time with finding a place. I feel like I have to lie on applications because I'm a stripper. I'm also a student and don't feel like living with roommates who would have a negative view on my job. I recently saw a room where the girl said she wouldn't want me to live with her because she is not into the fast life. I also know a fellow stripper who's landlord has made advancements towards her and asked her for a dance. I just wondering about peoples experiences and what are there opinions on this topic.
    I would just say you are a student. you would be telling the truth. it is a shame but being a dancer puts you in a bad light for a lot of narrow minded people..... anyway. good luck.

    the other thing you can do is find one of those extended stay hotels that have suites. here in upstate SC depending on where you live, those are hardly highter that a regular apartment. also it has the advantage that if things get to uncomtrable, you can always leave.....


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    Funny you all advise not telling the landlord about your occupation-----

    One Friday night I was at work, walking on the main floor, when I heard someone calling my name. Turning around, I saw my LANDLORD! LOL, it was sort of embarrassing.
    He was really cool about it though, and if I remember correctly, he gave me about $150. He has continued to be very professional, but I do get extra deals and perks in my apartment building now.

    I dealt with the "young stripper" situation that Divyne mentioned when I leased my apt. I was 18 with plenty of cash, but no credit or proof of income, so my aunt and uncle co-signed for me. When I financed my car I wrote "self employed" and entertainer" and it worked just fine.
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    Funny you all advise not telling the landlord about your occupation-----

    One Friday night I was at work, walking on the main floor, when I heard someone calling my name. Turning around, I saw my LANDLORD! LOL, it was sort of embarrassing.
    He was really cool about it though, and if I remember correctly, he gave me about $150. He has continued to be very professional, but I do get extra deals and perks in my apartment building now.

    I dealt with the "young stripper" situation that Divyne mentioned when I leased my apt. I was 18 with plenty of cash, but no credit or proof of income, so my aunt and uncle co-signed for me. When I financed my car I wrote "self employed" and entertainer" and it worked just fine.
    thats great, it is nice to know that there are some open minded people out there, it is just that from were I am from, a lot of "good" people will condem dancers in public but them slip them there number when nobody is looking, it is sad really.....

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    If the place might want paystubs, or if you aren't very good at lying, or you don't know anyone who can vouch for you---Try a half truth. You can say that you are a cocktail waitress or bartender. Talk to your club manager ahead of time, tell him that someone will be calling to verify your employment and what the story is. The door girls and managers at my place helped me get my apartment that way. Since those jobs work on tips, they will accept bank statements instead of paystubs, so make sure your bank statements for the last 3 months show that you can afford the place.


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    lanlords have always loved me being a stripper. i always have my rent. it just depends how you carry yourself. if you can show your responsible they dont care where your money comes from they just dont want partying all night crazy bfs and drugs

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    Most places dont care,if you have 2 years tax returns or 6 months bank statements,I have had a home for 10 years but lived in two seperate apartments,I put my work down as a reference,showed 2 years tax returns and 6 months bank statements and they want you to haveat least a 600 credit score,think about it,if I had an apartment complex I wouldnt want to rent to anyone who didnt have any of those things dancer or not,you could be self employed and claim you did anything and that you make 100,000 a year,but if you have no credir,tax returns orbank statements I wouldnt want to rent to you anyway.

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    Can I ask a question?

    Unless you are a feature and travel constantly or something why in the world would a dancer who probably makes between $75K to $100K a year or maybe more want to rent an apartment?

    Why not buy a condo and build some equity instead of paying for the landlord to own his building?
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    I have had this same problem!!!
    I always say that I work for my father, or a student and my parents are helping me with the rent. Sapphire is right about private property, they don't check as well. Lots of dancers have this problem :-/

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