We end up moving.
No, seriously. We are moving when our lease is up at the end of April.
In the last month or so Collin and I have been discussing possibly moving into something smaller. We realized (as nice as it is to have all this space) we really truly don't use more than 60% of the living space available. We rarely if ever hang out in the nerd domicile, and the second bedroom is just there. With Collin still in school for a few more months and the prospect of him switching jobs we figured moving could wait until next year. We were anticipating the new lease terms to arrive any day now, and they did on Friday. Like a wet fish to the side of the head (and a big fish at that!) we got the wake up call. They are raising the rent an additional one hundred and twenty dollars per month. As it is we are wasting money on square footage we don't use, but to be paying even more is ridiculous. So, we decided to bite the bullet and at the end of the month we will submit our required sixty day notice.
We are already looking around to get an idea of what's out there. Ideally, we want a two bedroom, one and a half bath (or more of either) house. We would settle for a duplex and possibly another townhouse, but I think we have agreed; absolutely no apartments. There are some other items on our wish list, but those are the basics.
As we did with the last move we will be getting rid of some stuff; mainly stuff we haven't used since we moved the last time. I went through the kitchen yesterday and came up with an entire box of crap we don't need... In just the effing kitchen. As it stands, with the list I have going we have a good two to three Rickys full of stuff. Almost definitely three.
The difficult part will be finding a house in the area we want the size we want. This is the epitome of suburbia so finding a eight hundred to one thousand square foot home is more difficult than one would think. Most of the homes out here are three bedroom, two bath and fifteen hundred square feet. Not really what one would call down sizing.
I am confident we will find the right house when we are supposed to. I just wish we were in the position to buy right now... We could try and get one hundred percent financing but two months is a VERY small window of time to find the right house. I know people who have been looking for a lot longer than that... Oh well, I am sure it will all work out.
We are pretty open on where we will live as long as the neighborhood doesn't scream crackheads and it isn't right next a main thoroughfare.
We have found a fantastic website for the hunt though (above and beyond craigslist), it's called hotpads.com and it is a map based rental property search site. It is awesome!
Dinner is about done. A spin on chicken bruschetta bake; turkey stuffing bake. I am thinking it will be pretty effing awesome; just like me! :-)
1 comment:
I am so sad that you have to move, but as nice as that place is, there is no reason for them to raise the rent that much. Good luck with the new home hunt! LOVE YA!!
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