Well, too much time has passed so I am wiping the slate clean and starting from today! There, no more anxiety about blogging! Whew, that was a close one...
So, just in case anyone was wondering, we are moving... AGAIN!! sigh... this is going to be our 6th move... in 6 1/2yrs of marriage. It's not my fault I have itchy feet!! So here is the scoop on how this whole thing came about......
It was a dark and stormy night.... err, it was too darn hot to sleep..... and Corinne found herself awake with nothing to do... so she started browsing rental listings (shocker, I know) and she started to see really good deals on better apts than what she was currently living in. She tried to ignore them but their siren songs were strong, and so the seed was planted and the inevitability of an imminent move was... well inevitable! A few weeks went by and still the nagging need to move grew stronger.
When she discussed the possibility with her husband, things didn't go so well.... NO he DID NOT want to move, again; and was it such a good idea to move when the possibility of buying a home was fast approaching? (well, it is a year or so out , but that's still pretty fast) He had a valid point, so she bravely eradicated the need to move and was for the most part successful.
A few more weeks went by, when I friend mentioned that the other side of the duplex they live in was coming available for rent!! Bells started ringing, fireworks exploded everywhere, the need to move once again sprung back to life with renewed vigor! Who wouldn't jump at the chance to move out of an apt and into a duplex with the added bonus of having your friends just next door?!?!? Certainly a stronger person that Corinne! So, after some cajoling, begging and incessant nagging, she garnered a somewhat reluctant approval from her husband to go see the duplex!
Let me interject here a quick side note, our current lease is up at the end of September and even though I called our landlord at the beginning of the month to see about possibly signing a new lease and/or not, we still have not heard back from them, nor have we received the letter they said was forthcoming in regards to our situation....
Anyways, so the viewing of the duplex happened and our couple went back home to discuss the pros and cons of moving :
PROS:
- It's a Duplex, NOT and apartment!!
- Our friends live next door
- It has a small shop in the back that can be used for Custom Kingdoms (which means we can move it OUT of our living room!!)
- We can get a pet if we want, meaning either a puppy or kitten! :)
- It's within walking distance of the library =D
- It's NOT and apartment!!!! (did I already mention this!??! )
- We would no longer need to deal with our current landlord or neighbors... did I forgot to mention that they called the police on Josh because he was outside talking on his cellphone?!?! No joke, it really happened.
- It's being remodeled as we speak so everything in it is new! =D
- It's smaller than our current place, square feet wise (better set up though)
- Packing and unpacking!! Not my idea of fun!
- moving expenses.... even though we are only moving about 2miles from where we are now, it's still probably going to cost a few hundred dollars
- New Deposit! Yuck! oh and $80 for credit checks! here is to hoping our criminal history does not bite us in the butt!! Joking of course, we are squeaky clean, promise!!
- Did I mention the packing and unpacking?!?!
- No Dishwasher! that's a rough one... almost a deal breaker
So as we were making this list we realized that we should check with our current landlord to make sure we can move out at the end of the month without any problems.
So the next morning Dana called the landlord.... and obviously there is a problem, as usual.
Apparently they require a written "moving out" notice, 20 days prior to actually moving out.... that was never mentioned in the afore mentioned phone call, nor is it specified in our contract; and even though if we were to send it in now we would have only been 3 days off of the deadline, our landlord refused to help us out. "The rules are the rules" and as far as they are concerned we are responsible for October's rent and that is it. Thank you very much!
After that phone call it was very easy for us to make the decision to move, we are sick and tired of dealing with our landlord... they are always messing up something (read previous posts for further details) they refuse to meet us halfway on anything and they are generally unpleasant to work with... enough is enough! so long, adieu, we are so out of here!!
Thankfully our new landlord was accommodating enough to help us out and push our official move in date to the middle of October so we can pay only half rent for that month, even though he'll give us the keys to it as soon as the remodel of the unit is complete!! Isn't it just so lovely when people are actually nice and easy to work with?!?!?
I just hope we don't get buried in orders as we try to move... that would put a pretty big dampener on the whole thing... oh well, what will be will be.
Till next time....
