Well I am freaking out! Remember the long post about how we were gonna live in a one-bedroom and save lots and lots of money by helping fix it up? Yea, well after a few weeks and several hours of hard work(for Scott) the apartment was not getting close to finishing. A week ago, after seeing no insulation in the walls or plumbing, we decided to let it go and start finding somewhere with heat to live.
With less than two weeks to find a place that is affordable, not in the ghetto and allows you to get out of the lease, things are looking grim. Rentals on the market at this time are scarce AND usually are filled a month before the previous tenant’s lease is up. With only two weeks we weren’t finding very many available nows. I cannot tell you how many phone calls we BOTH have made. One would come on and literally 30 minutes later I would call and they would already have someone claiming it. We went and visited several and they were so ghetto I was worried the rotting ceiling would fall on us. Two that came with garages wouldn’t let you store stuff in the garage because there are too many break-ins. Another stated in the listing “Car vandalism and break-ins are frequent and so we highly recommend car-alarms”. Like WHAT IN THE HECK?!?! We were not even being picky. We even increased our price to more than what we are paying now, and still we are begging people. One place wouldn’t rent to us because we have kids!
We finally found a place and the lady isn’t sure that she wants to rent it to us because we might only live there six months. I am on egg shells waiting. She has called like ten times drilling us with questions. It’s not like this fancy, smacy place either. It is going to be a long commute for Scott and is freaking ugly and tiny (800sq ft) and we will have to buy a washer/dryer and a microwave AND it is fairly expensive too. It has a small garage and a yard and is in a really safe neighborhood and that is the only reason we are trying so hard to get it.
I don’t even get the point of this blog post…..I just needed to vent!
1 comment:
hang in there friend.
good things come to those that want it.
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