Renting a flat in urban India is no easy task, specially for single women and men.
Signboards prohibiting "bachelor tenants" are not an uncommon sight in the capital Delhi and its neighbouring suburbs.
Landlords usually have preferences like "vegetarian only", "government officials only" and "Hindus only".
But they also have a long list of reasons to not rent their properties to single people.
Here are the top five reasons that landlords give to "not even consider" single people as tenants.
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