To not mention that I am pregnant?

[Seabiscuit1]

DP and I have found a house that we love and want to start the rental application for. It’s great. 20 mins from my parents (we currently live 2 hours away from family) it has 3 bedrooms, a garden and in a village that I love.
Called the letting agent to express our interest after going to see it. He told me that the first stage was to write a paragraph or two about ourselves. All fine I think! We both have decent careers and I have ties to the village.
But I am 28 weeks pregnant. He probably would have noticed when we viewed the house but I was wearing a loose fitting dress so wouldn’t have been too obvious.
AIBU not to mention that I am pregnant when I write about us?! I am so scared that it will affect our chances of getting the house that I have fallen in love with.
Also, any idea about what we can say about ourselves other than our careers?

What is this country coming to?

Write some twee bloody essay about how you are the essence of nice, inoffensive, hard working, teatotal, Janet and John style church goers! 🙄

I know I am getting old but what happened to the days when I was a student mid 70's when you looked for a rental property in either the local press or shop window, rang up to view, did the viewing with the landlord, agreed a moving in date, paid a month's rent in advance and shook hands. I thought things had moved on!😡

I wonder if the landlord is also local, maybe even a neighbour, they may be looking to vet tenants to fit with their ideals of village life. A working couple expecting a baby who have family connections in the village will go down well, a gang of polish construction workers who leave for work loudly at 5.30 am and all decend home complete with fleet of vans, not so much. village life can be a bit like this, don"t worry though, I’d say you will fit the ‘desirable’ box

I would mention your pregnancy.

If they don't want babies/toddlers living in the house (have known landlords specify only children of school age and over as well as no children) then best you find out now rather than have to move again when the initial six month contract is up.

We are reluctant landlords ( flat in negative equity) The dream tenants would be a nice couple about to start a family: looking to make a home so hopefully staying a fair while and taking good care of the place. Less likely to have wild parties too.

You also say ‘it’s your dream home’ I’d take it is quite nice then? Not your average bare minimum spec rental property? This may be someone’s much loved, pride and joy home that they have had to let due some circumstance or another. If I were going to let my own home I would like some reassurance that the prospective tenants were normal nice people who would care for my beloved home.

'Also we found that when looking at 3 bedroom rentals, a lot stated pets allowed but not children!'

Loads of those round here. 4-bed houses that say no children, no pets. They sit empty. No rent, either.

This sounds like lunacy. Letting agents seem to be getting more unreasonable by the week.