Last week I think sometime we received a letter from our apartment complex about resigning our lease. At first I thought it was crazy to get something already since our lease isn't up until March 1st but after reading the letter it states you must give them 60 day written notice if you are not resigning which would be December 31st...holy crap that's just around the corner!!
Back to the point of this letter, it also informed us that our rent would be increasing a minimum of almost 8.5% we would have to sign a 12 month lease for that increase, any other lease agreement would result in a higher increase. When I first read this I was floored....almost 8.5% increase, thats f'in insane!! I know that the area we live in is extremely expensive compared to other areas we have lived but that is a huge increase. As it is we probably already pay more in rent than most of you pay for your mortgage...typing that made me a little sick.
Bottom line, the hunt is on for a new apartment. We are hoping to get something in a safe neighborhood with a yard or at least a park for Jackson to play at and if we are lucky a place that has storage! Storage may seem a little odd to want but currently we have totes filling every closet and also sitting randomly throughout our house it's annoying!
Hopefully I will be able to post soon about a new place but if not I guess we will just suck it up and pay the 8.5% increase.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Our Soon-To-Be New Home
Last week we finally found out exactly where I would be working. Knowing that critical piece of information has allowed us to figure out where we wanted to live and actually start implementing this move across the country.
In case you weren't aware the Man and I are pretty fast decision makers and choosing a place to live without ever stepping foot into the state didn't slow us down at all.
This is how last week went:
Tuesday afternoon - we find out where I will be working
Tuesday afternoon - we research the crap out of apartments in the area
Tuesday afternoon - call for more info on 1 apartment that we think we might like
Tuesday evening - do more research on area apartments
Tuesday evening - decide we really like the one we called on but decide we will not make a decision till next week
Wednesday morning - email back and forth with the lady at the apartment we liked
Wednesday morning - decide we really like this apartment and its the one we are going to rent
Wednesday afternoon - fill out paperwork and mail in security deposit and credit check info
Thursday morning - everything came back perfect and the apartment is ours!!
We are very excited about our new apartment and cannot wait to get there! We are renting a 2 bedroom, 2 bath and it is newly renovated. So the cabinets, counter-tops, appliances and carpet are all new! Plus the balcony is being redone. The actual apartment that we are renting is vacant right now so the lady we were working with was able to go and take a few pictures of our actual place and not just an apartment with the same floor plan or similar features.
In case you weren't aware the Man and I are pretty fast decision makers and choosing a place to live without ever stepping foot into the state didn't slow us down at all.
This is how last week went:
Tuesday afternoon - we find out where I will be working
Tuesday afternoon - we research the crap out of apartments in the area
Tuesday afternoon - call for more info on 1 apartment that we think we might like
Tuesday evening - do more research on area apartments
Tuesday evening - decide we really like the one we called on but decide we will not make a decision till next week
Wednesday morning - email back and forth with the lady at the apartment we liked
Wednesday morning - decide we really like this apartment and its the one we are going to rent
Wednesday afternoon - fill out paperwork and mail in security deposit and credit check info
Thursday morning - everything came back perfect and the apartment is ours!!
We are very excited about our new apartment and cannot wait to get there! We are renting a 2 bedroom, 2 bath and it is newly renovated. So the cabinets, counter-tops, appliances and carpet are all new! Plus the balcony is being redone. The actual apartment that we are renting is vacant right now so the lady we were working with was able to go and take a few pictures of our actual place and not just an apartment with the same floor plan or similar features.
Our floor plan - The Howard
Picture of OUR actual kitchen
Our Living Room
One of our bathrooms
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The "itch" to move...
We have lived in our apartment for almost 18 months now and I have the itch to move. This is something I am going to blame my parents for, since we moved a lot. The Man on the other hand is perfectly content with staying where we are at....which doesn't surprise me since his family never moved while he was growing up.
There are a lot of reasons to move and a lot not too....
To Move
There are a lot of reasons to move and a lot not too....
To Move
- Could use a bigger place (3 bedroom instead of 2) this way Nicki will have her own room when she lives with me
- The area we currently live in isn't the best neighborhood in town
- A place that included laundry or had laundry hook-ups in the apartment
To Stay
- Cheap rent = saving money
- We don't HAVE to have a 3 bedroom....2 currently works fine for us
- Everything is already in this apartment and has its place (In my eyes this is a lame reason but I know the Man would say this is a reason to stay)
Those are a few of the reasons to move and stay that I can come up with, stay tuned to see what gets added to the list when the Man gets home and what our end decision will be.
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