The Apartment has been searching for a tenant to help cover rent, and for a hot minute it looked like Meek Phil was walking through the door. The pitch was simple enough on paper: move in, split the bill, become part of the bit full time.
The announcement teased a new tenant for The Apartment, with one catch attached.
That catch turned out to be the whole problem. Word got out that if Meek Phil wanted the room, he'd need a guarantor, and the name attached to that paperwork was Klemmer. For anyone who's followed the two of them, that's not a small detail, it's the entire dealbreaker.
Tommy laid out the actual offer: move into The Apartment with Klemmer signing on as guarantor.
Meek Phil and Klemmer don't exactly have a clean history. The two have gone at it publicly before, including a blowup where Meek Phil told Klemmer to go f--- himself during an argument that started over a phone getting spiked and broken. So pitching Klemmer as the guy who vouches for Meek Phil financially was always going to be a tough sell, and it played out that way in real time.
The verdict came fast: Klemmer being the one to help him is a dealbreaker, and Meek Phil is out on The Apartment for now.
The internet reaction matched the vibe of the whole saga. Stoolies Clubhouse summed up the read from the outside pretty bluntly, calling the whole arrangement a bad idea before it even had a chance to get off the ground.
@VivaLaStool Sounds like a bad idea @MeekPhill_
So The Apartment is still short a tenant, still needs help with rent, and the Meek Phil experiment is dead on arrival, at least for now. Given how fast this fell apart, don't be shocked if Tommy comes back with a different candidate, or if this whole thing gets revisited once the Klemmer situation cools off, if it ever does.