Remember When Apartments Were $500?

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What personal milestone is Maya celebrating in this episode?

Dom Roberts 0:19
Hey.
Maya Umemoto Gorman 0:24
Hey. Hey. And like, what about Pitch Perfect? What about War Is Over? Hey, can I talk to you guys?
Unknown 0:31
Yeah, no, feel free.
Maya Umemoto Gorman 0:33
Oh, War Is Over.
Unknown 0:34
Wait, first time. War Is Over. Guys, War Is Over. I signed a lease yesterday. And I'm also like no shade. I'm low key scared. Like I need to get the money transfer in and then get the keys in my hand and then I'll celebrate because like I have a vlog on my on my YouTube channel, my YouTube channel that literally has like me in process of like finding a place and then like let me back up of finding a place and then literally like they literally were like.

How does Dom feel about Glinda’s eyelashes?

Unknown 0:57
sit sit and then i sat and i still didn't get the treat so um that was really hard but like in the sense that like now that there's a place that i have my name on type shit i'm like well let me see the keto let me see let me see the keto but she's really cute and lovely and the landlord is like a girl and like she's t and she's like a woman of color and i'm like thank god like literally thank no and that's how i feel about my landlord like she's black and like
Maya Umemoto Gorman 1:22
Like I was telling Maya, my neighborhood is like, I didn't know this because you wouldn't think that it was historically black, unfortunately, but it is historically black. And wake that up. Because I found their Instagram page because sometimes we have like block parties and stuff because it's like pretty residential. Yeah.
Yeah.
Maya Umemoto Gorman 1:40
anyway so with that being said like she really like keeps it the price correct no very she doesn't raise it like i mean it should be so much more just because of the area inflation and like whatever one heavy on the inflation because you've been there long enough to where it's like i feel like you also are lucky to be locked in like that specific agreement you know what i mean Well, yeah. And, like, they raised it for the first time, but only by, like, $100. Well, because they can't raise it more than, like, what? 3%. 3%. Yeah.
Unknown 2:06
And, like, now it's supposed to be, like, one or two, which I'm, like, T. And also, I... For the lore of it, I'm, like, I... Well, and we'll see, because in three months, I might be ripping my hair out. But the rent itself is...

What are the highlights of the Oscar nominations discussed?

Unknown 2:17
and see how I was going to say cheap. And then it's like, well, why do we have to pay to live anyway? Let's talk about that. Let's wake up when like an apartment used to be $500. Does anyone give a fuck? Um, but like the rent is like cheap, but in the sense of like, I mean y'all, well y'all, I haven't said how much I like what my budget is, but like y'all know my tea. Like I literally was looking at shit like in LA, like it'll be max budget if you want like laundry on site, you know what I mean? Um, but like this place, she's like literally on some like low rent shit. Cause she's like building like a studio in the back. And she was like, Hey, like, no shade like it's so nice and like you get all the bells and whistles too so like that's really awesome really cute and like she's like really good care of the place like no and that's the because guys you would you like la bitches la landlords if it was up to me like i would have like an america's got talent of fucking la landlords or like an american idol where i'm like show me your unit and if you're shit like the girls be literally trying to like get you in an agreement for something where it's like but like the roach opened the door for me
Unknown 3:16
Do you know what I mean? Like I've seen genuinely over the last like month and a half, I've probably genuinely seen like 40 plus units. And these motherfuckers literally like you open the door, the door falls off the hinge and they're like, we're thinking like 4,500. I'm like 45, 4,500.

What challenges does Maya face in her new apartment?

Unknown 3:33
And it'll be no laundry on site. No, like, I think that the, the meeting of the landlord, we had like a key da yesterday because I was like, before I signed this lease, like, let me just walk through one more time. Cause y'all know, like I signed my lease, like dead ass, almost like sight unseen. And then I like opened the pantry and there was literally a pair of shorts in there.

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