New Home Excitement

I've been doing the apartment hunt. It sucks. The market is awful and the entire process is tedious. The people who currently live above me have two small children. Their babysitter is looking for a place to live and obviously it's very convenient for them if she moves in downstairs in the in-law where I currently am. They don't want to ask me to leave because we really enjoy being neighbors. However, I didn't think I would be there as long as I have been because of New Zealand. They've been such great neighbors I told them I would look for a place and we agreed I'd be out by mid-July.

The search was long and...well, tedious. Due to suggestions by Tanya and Strawberry, I finally typed up exactly what I was looking for in a place. That afternoon I checked Craigslist for the umpteenth time and saw an ad for a house over at 38th and Balboa. I went and looked at it that night. The girl who is currently living in it is only leaving because she's moving to Australia. It was probably built in the teens and is awesome. I instantly fell in love with it. Remember the old nooks they had in hallways for the telephone? It still has the pullout bench below so you can sit and talk! There are two bedrooms, a living room, formal dining room, kitchen, bathroom with a tub (woohoo!) and a gorgeous back yard. Laundry in the garage. It's a bit more than I would like to pay, but is at the top end of what I said I could afford to pay.

I filled out an application and wrote a check right then. The girl living there put me at the top of the list with the landlord. I spoke with the landlord briefly last Friday and she was supposed to look over the application that night or the next day and call me. I've been trying to get hold of the landlord for days now to no avail. I was starting to freak out a bit as I had sort of stopped my search.

I just got an email from the girl living there. She had spoken to the landlord who seemed to have no problem with me moving in and is supposed to call me today. Hopefully she will and this can be sorted! Then I can have a fabulous new house and entertainment space!

Woohoo!

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