When getting to know someone do you ask them if they own a house or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are trying to gauge your finances. There are a lot of men and women in the dating pool that are floundering in very large debt.

I've had the dates follow me out to the parking lot to get a look at the car I am driving (again...trying to gauge your finances.)

A woman I dated for a couple months gauged my finances. I had an apartment in DC, and not a cheap one, that I rented with the intention of staying in during the week. She wanted to "talk" where she stated that she couldn't be in a relationship with someone my age ( 34 at the time) who did own a condo or home. What she didn't know was that I had a $6 million beach house, a 2.5 million dollar house I owned that I let my parents use rent free, and a $1.5 million condo on the Med in Nice. I looked at her in disbelief, smiled and laughed out loud, said thanks got up, dropped $50 on the table for our drinks and walked out of cafe without saying another word.

This is a great first stab at a short story! Maybe join a fiction workshop so you can flesh it out and get notes from other writers.

[Anonymous]

I’d find that off putting in an initial conversation. Like OP, I’d wonder what was behind the question. There are also so many scenarios and variables that the simplest y/n answer doesn’t shed much light.