This document provides tips for negotiating a rental agreement without just offering more money. It suggests highlighting other desirable attributes like being tidy, considerate of neighbors, and able to do garden maintenance. These non-monetary factors are as or more important to landlords. The document also advises bringing references, photos, and other evidence to validate claims. In job interviews, a similar approach can make one stand out over candidates only meeting basic qualifications. Non-monetary qualities like hobbies, language skills, and volunteer work should be emphasized.

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Now that you have your Intention down, and 1. Make sure you really can pay the sum asked per
your transparency antenna up, let’s move into month.
discussing how to navigate a more layered 2. If you aren’t a smoker, explain that.
negotiation. 3. If you really care about your personal space, then
prove it. Show a photograph of yourself in your
After college, I remember trying to figure out last apartment along with a reference from your
previous landlord to validate your claim of
how to find places in London to rent – and I ‘tidiness.’
wanted to do this without calling my parents. I 4. If you aren’t a big party goer, demonstrate this as
realized quickly that if you offered even a few well. Have a neighbor from your last rental give
pounds more you were more than likely to get you a reference to demonstrate that you are a
the place. Now, what if you didn’t have those considerate neighbor or member of a community.
extra $$? Well, I have always believed money is 5. If you are love to garden, and if there is a garden,
only one slice of the economics pizza. state this and ask if you are allowed to ‘tend’ to it.
Economics, after all, is made up of various 6. If you are minimalist, again, demonstrate this by
elements and not just money. As CQis a guide showing a photo of your one pile of boxes. This
often pleases landlords who are mindful of
to getting what you want, and at the same time walls/floors etc.
helping others get what they want, in a rental 7. If you can afford it, put down three months instead
negotiation there would be several other of only one month deposit – this also shows
attributes as important as the rent check. As a immediate good faith.
landlord, I know the following are just as
important, if not more so, than money:
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There are numerous other examples which add 6. Are their references noteworthy people i.e.
toyour negotiation package, and can raise your respectedindividuals inbusiness, education,
arts, etc.?
CQ.They can all take you to the top of the list 7. Did some of their higher education (summer
instead ofthe person who throws down a small classesetc.)show acurious mindset versus a
bit more thanasked. single mindset?
If an individual had a check against each of the seven
If you take the above principles and apply them points, they would rise to the top of a list
to yourjobInterview,for instance, you’d also immediately, even if their skill set wasn’t exactly what
get a morefavorableresponse than the exact the job description required. For I would know this
‘mirror’ candidate ofthe posted jobdescription. person was an interesting andinterested
individual, and anyone with those two given skill sets
(Interviews, after all,areanother kind of can learn anything. They have the right amount of
negotiation). As a CEO, I look for many‘other’ CQ to impress. Therefore, please highlight aspects
attributes when nterviewing management like the above if they are ones you feel strongly
teams: about, and this way you’re more likely to land up in a
work situation that is much more suitable toyou
instead of the ‘boss’ who is only looking for one ‘type’
1. Do they have a hobby? of individual.
2. Have they traveled?
3. Have they worked overseas? Be you, and share who you are honestly, and you’ll
see…negotiations with a positive outcome for both
4. Do they speak another language, even if not parties will become that much easier to achieve.
fluently?
5. Are they part of an NGO or do they volunteer Be well.
in somecommunity? -c
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