India, June 7 -- High rents, large security deposits and landlords reluctant to rent to bachelors are among the challenges many house-hunters face in Bengaluru. Now, a Bengaluru-based startup founder has gone viral after sharing his experience of searching for a flat in the city.

In a post on X, Raj Vikramaditya, founder of learning platform takeUforward and a former Google techie, detailed his ordeal, calling flat hunting in Bengaluru a "nightmare". He claimed that even after agreeing to pay Rs.80,000 in rent and a 5-month security deposit, he still faced resistance from landlords because of his "bachelor" status.

Listing his constraints, Vikramaditya wrote, "Started flat hunting (2BHK). Needed a gated society for security reasons. Clo...