Essay Example on Finding the Perfect Apartment: My First College Experience

During the first few months before starting college, my biggest worries were figuring out the perfect apartment where I was going to live. I was anxious to and tried finding an apartment online. All I could imagine at the moment is living with my parents while in college. As badly as I wanted to secure an apartment, searching for one during the spring period was unrealistic. I embarked on an online search and surprisingly, I landed on a realtor website, full of pictures. Surprisingly, the call to action message was “you will love it or you will LOVE it”. So, I decided to go and find out whether the place is lovely. As soon as I pulled up near the apartment, I could help and notice that the place was trash. There was an old car on the driveway, trash all over the yard which had attracted some animals. Shortly after I had pulled over and stepped out of the car, a fat man came towards my direction. The man introduced himself as Erik Katana and the owner of the apartment. He asked me whether I was ready to tour the property. I remember him saying that “this was the place where all younger adults came to live”. He also stated that it’s a place for people who are looking for an adventurous life. However, he noticed my amusement as I told him that the place wasn’t how I expected it to be. In a sad voice, he explained to me that he would lose his job and if he lost his job, he could not able to buy food for his family and if he could not buy food for his family then he was a bad father. Reluctantly, I went on and took a tour with Erik. While on the tour, Erik asked if he had visited any other apartment nearby and I told him that I had visited Jeremy's apartment around the corner. Erik went on saying that the “manager of the apartment, Daniel, does not take care of the apartment and has poor communication skills. He is totally opposite of me.” I can confess that Jeremy's apartment was nice, and had everything that I was looking for in an apartment. Erik had a completely different narration related to the apartment. He told me that apartment had a lot of noise and the neighboring house complains a lot. The children are always jumpy making a lot of noise. I remember him saying “Noisy children are a real headache. Two aspirin will make a headache go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.” After several flights of stairs, we arrive at an apartment where he points out and says “as promised, I said you will love this apartment, so therefore you have to love this apartment.” As soon as we entered, I was shocked to see it’s a studio, with the kitchen, sitting room, and bedroomed as one. However, after telling Erik that that studio was not what I was looking for, he said “you wanted a one-bedroom and I am showing you a one-bedroom. So it must be a one-bedroom.” After touring the one apartment according to Erik, he eventually handed me a lease to sign. I told him unfortunately that was not the apartment I was looking for and went back to the car. As I drove away, u could help to hear his last words, “you cannot tell a good house, and vehicle will breakdown after you leave the apartment”.

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List of Fallacies:

• Either-Or: the realtor website says “You will either love it or Love it”
• Appeal to popularity: Erik says that the apartment “is where all younger adults came to live”. He was attempting to justify a claim by appealing to sentiments what a large groups have in common.
• Appeals to emotions /Slippery slope: Erik says that he would lose his job and if he lost his job, he could not able to buy food for his family and if he could not buy food for his family then he was a bad father. He uses his emotions to claim if this happens then that will happen
• Ad Hominem: Erik says that “manager of the apartment, Daniel, does not take care of the apartment and has poor communication skills. He is totally opposite of me.” Also his last words “you cannot tell a good house, and vehicle will breakdown after you leave the apartment”. The fallacy is Insulting/attacking a person, than addressing the reasons.
• Equivocation: “Noisy children are a real headache. Two aspirin will make a headache go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.” This is having a key word used with two or more meanings in a way that the argument does not make sense.
• Appeals to questionable authority: “you wanted a one-bedroom and I am showing you a one-bedroom. So it must be a one-bedroom.” Supporting a conclusion by citing an authority who lacks special expertise on the subject.
• Begging the question: “as promised, I said you will love this apartment, so therefore you have to love this apartment.” This is where an argument derived from a conclusion is assumed in the reasoning.