India, July 7 -- An Instagram post by a content creator exposed a hilarious yet frustrating new hurdle for renters in Mumbai: numerological vetting. The woman recalled accompanying a friend to a flat viewing where the affluent landlady asked for the prospective tenant's numerology number.

"Guess what this landlady does for a living," Vagmita Singh wrote on Instagram while sharing a video.

The clip opens with her saying, "Bhai, chal kya raha hai Mumbai mein?" She goes on to say that she had heard tenants being rejected for eating non-veg or being unmarried. However, a recent encounter left her dumbfounded when a landlady cited a numerology number as the reason for rejection.

Singh recalled it happened when she visited a place that her f...