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We saw seven houses yesterday. Seven. Same number as the Von Trapp children, a meaningless fact I haven't been able to get out of my head all day.
( The Von Trapp family houses. )
We decided we liked the Mormon house best - enough better than the pink house that we would find a way to deal with the fact that the pink house is available now and the Mormon house isn't available until July 1 and I've given notice at my building that I'll be moving out June 1. We thought Okay, it's not yet the end of April, maybe they haven't rented my place yet, in which event I can ask if I can have 30 more days; worst case, they say no, and we make some sort of arrangement to put my stuff in storage and I camp at Himself's place for the month of June. That wouldn't be ideal, because at his place we'd be more on top of each other than we'd like (which is why we're looking for something else), plus I'd be out of a suitcase and without any of my stuff; but I'll be gone for a week in the middle of the month visiting my mom for reasons anyway, and that's how much better we like the Mormon house and its location. But if it doesn't work out at all with the Mormon house we can be happy in the pink house for a couple of years and start looking for a house to buy that is as much like the brick Marta house as we can get, but a block or so away for sanity reasons.
So today I stopped by the leasing office to explain the situation and ask if I could have another 30 days - and found that the notice I'd put in three weeks ago hadn't been entered into the system. In fact they had no record of it. Fortunately I have a record of it, so if I had tried to leave on June 1 I'd have been able to brandish my copy of the document and prove that I didn't owe them another month's rent - but in this case it actually worked to my advantage, because they can't possibly have already rented my apartment for June if their computer didn't even realize it was available. (Turns out that when I handed in the thing where I checked the box saying I was not renewing my lease and would be leaving as of June 1, and asked for a copy of it, what the guy put in the file was a copy of the cover letter. The first couple-few weeks were not auspicious for the new office staff; the guy I saw today acknowledged they had had a lot of damage control to do from what the old staff left them. Fun times!) Now I have a pink copy of a triple-carbon official form that is signed and witnessed and I'm good here until July 5.
We have the application and the credit reports and hopefully I will have a new address and an as-of date sooon.
( The Von Trapp family houses. )
We decided we liked the Mormon house best - enough better than the pink house that we would find a way to deal with the fact that the pink house is available now and the Mormon house isn't available until July 1 and I've given notice at my building that I'll be moving out June 1. We thought Okay, it's not yet the end of April, maybe they haven't rented my place yet, in which event I can ask if I can have 30 more days; worst case, they say no, and we make some sort of arrangement to put my stuff in storage and I camp at Himself's place for the month of June. That wouldn't be ideal, because at his place we'd be more on top of each other than we'd like (which is why we're looking for something else), plus I'd be out of a suitcase and without any of my stuff; but I'll be gone for a week in the middle of the month visiting my mom for reasons anyway, and that's how much better we like the Mormon house and its location. But if it doesn't work out at all with the Mormon house we can be happy in the pink house for a couple of years and start looking for a house to buy that is as much like the brick Marta house as we can get, but a block or so away for sanity reasons.
So today I stopped by the leasing office to explain the situation and ask if I could have another 30 days - and found that the notice I'd put in three weeks ago hadn't been entered into the system. In fact they had no record of it. Fortunately I have a record of it, so if I had tried to leave on June 1 I'd have been able to brandish my copy of the document and prove that I didn't owe them another month's rent - but in this case it actually worked to my advantage, because they can't possibly have already rented my apartment for June if their computer didn't even realize it was available. (Turns out that when I handed in the thing where I checked the box saying I was not renewing my lease and would be leaving as of June 1, and asked for a copy of it, what the guy put in the file was a copy of the cover letter. The first couple-few weeks were not auspicious for the new office staff; the guy I saw today acknowledged they had had a lot of damage control to do from what the old staff left them. Fun times!) Now I have a pink copy of a triple-carbon official form that is signed and witnessed and I'm good here until July 5.
We have the application and the credit reports and hopefully I will have a new address and an as-of date sooon.
