Bachelors not allowed

I am sure this would have happened to a lot of people looking for an apartment to stay in Mumbai. You walk into a housing complex looking for an apartment and someone tells you "bachelors not allowed". I wonder what's wrong in someone being a bachelor, I mean all those so called family persons were bachelor some day.

Renting a flat to a bachelor is much more convenient than renting it to a family. Why? Bachelors don't crib for small small things, they just come home during the night mostly just to sleep, hence the furniture and other stuff is less used, they don't have any problems in leaving the flat in case required, because families form an association with the flat because their kids are studying in a particular school, which has to be changed in case they change the flat. So many positives of renting a flat to a bachelor, still so many issues have been created out of nowhere.

There could be some things associated with bachelors, which probably these family men used to do when they were themselves bachelor and think that all bachelors are like this. The problem has to be with some things, which are associated with bachelors and not any person. If this is the case don't allow those things, why deprive of bachelors staying away from their home and family of a roof.

I have noticed, most of the times it's not the owners of the flat who have a problem, it's the society. If you ask these society people about the real issue, they always fail to provide a logical explanation for this ridiculous demand. Some site some hypothetical or real incident/experience they had with some of the bachelors staying in one of the flats in the society, well I also can share many such incidents involving married people. Just because one person behaves in a particular way does not mean everyone is same. In the end each individual is different and has different behaviour and attitude.

In the end only one thing, most of the bachelors looking for a flat in Mumbai want to live with their family but they can not afford a flat alone, with the rent so high, to keep their family with them. That is why they decide to share the flat and rent with their colleagues or friends and sometimes even with people whom they have never known before.

We (me and couple of my partners in crime of bachelorhood) wish to build a huge high class housing complex with all the facilities and rent it to bachelors in half the market rates. In case some family man wants to rent a flat in the complex they will have to pay the market rates and will have to go through an interview before they are be allowed to stay in the locality. We might be married by that time, but still we don't want bachelors to go through all the trouble just because they are not married. In fact looking at the population in the City/Country, we should be encouraging the bachelors instead of forcing them to start a family just for this very idiotic reason. Common guys, think about the future.