The Future Yawns Before Us
Its time for another fantastic update in the fabulous life of Alyssa & Keith Gibbs!
This week was not particularly eventful until this past Friday when several events occured of note:
a) I had a 1-1:30 pm job interview over the phone with Northeastern University that went very, very, very well. So well in fact that the interviewer did not get though her questions (and had to go as she had only budged a half hour of time) but instantly asked me to campus for an interview. She stated she wouldn't normally do that (she still has other phone interviews) but she "didn't want to see me get away." So awesome! Then the afternoon continued....
b) The realtor came by to show us apartments. Rather, one apartment. That wasn't so great. He then really spent a lot of time trying to convince us to stay put....being that we put so much effort into our apartment and were so late to the game, we were going to have an imposssible time finding a) an apartment this size, and b) anything not garden or basement level. It didn't make sense to take a smaller place and pay for storage and lack the use of our stuff, or trade for a more unsecure premises. The place we saw down the street lacked as much, if not more with security (with a hollow front door and loose doorknob).
c) I came home and Keith went to pick up a few Blockbuster films while I panicked on how to approach our landlord on how to let us come back after all we've been through and Keith and I breaking our renewal. Meanwhile, the first interested people in our apartment came by to look....the first in a month since we broke our renewal! This sent us into a panic. Yikes!
d) James the Realtor called us 15 minutes after event (c) about a place that opened up unexpectedly and fit our bill. He took us there. We loved it. We even got half the fee paid by the landlord and he agreed to let us paint the walls in a non "landlord white" color. But then I obsessed over completing an application and writing a check after seeing only 2 apartments (we probably looked at close to 30 when we decided on this place in April/May 2004)...plus coming up with a first, last, security deposit, and fee. Plus moving expenses. Plus an extra month's rent as we have the place starting August 1st. But we filled out the application and provided a check. Having not signed the lease officially, we can back out, but still....
e) We called George and spoke to him. He seemed surprised that we would consider staying, but made it clear that he wanted his asking price $1650 or something close to it. Our new apartment is $1600 and very secure (the third floor of a house with three doors, two locked interiors to get to our apartment). We have to pay for the electric heat during the winter, but that's probably about $25 a month. The parking is improved. All in all we are only "out" the fee and moving costs. Plus we might be able to rent to own. After talking with George we decided to simply move on. If we had been offered $1520 (as in the original terms) or even $1550, we might have stayed. But the die is cast.
Saturday dawned. It was pretty uneventful. Mostly straightening up---groups three and four came to see the apartment. Keith didn't get to go visit the pawn shops because he miscommunicated with the detective handling our case. They will go this week to look at items. I went to work at 4:30 pm and worked until 9:15 pm. Got a lot done.
I'm not sure what to do with myself tomorrow. Keith has been particularly excited with me this week because I bought a GameCube with some graduation money (yes, a very un-Alyssa like decision) but its worth it with the doting I've received from Keith this week. I've never seen a man so excited about a purchase. Now with what we are facing in extra expenses, I'm sort of regretting that decision, but, I think we'll be fine.
Most likely I'll work on some genealogy stuff tomorrow, visit the office, and prepare for my OTHER interview Monday. I'm interviewing for a College Officer position too!
This week was not particularly eventful until this past Friday when several events occured of note:
a) I had a 1-1:30 pm job interview over the phone with Northeastern University that went very, very, very well. So well in fact that the interviewer did not get though her questions (and had to go as she had only budged a half hour of time) but instantly asked me to campus for an interview. She stated she wouldn't normally do that (she still has other phone interviews) but she "didn't want to see me get away." So awesome! Then the afternoon continued....
b) The realtor came by to show us apartments. Rather, one apartment. That wasn't so great. He then really spent a lot of time trying to convince us to stay put....being that we put so much effort into our apartment and were so late to the game, we were going to have an imposssible time finding a) an apartment this size, and b) anything not garden or basement level. It didn't make sense to take a smaller place and pay for storage and lack the use of our stuff, or trade for a more unsecure premises. The place we saw down the street lacked as much, if not more with security (with a hollow front door and loose doorknob).
c) I came home and Keith went to pick up a few Blockbuster films while I panicked on how to approach our landlord on how to let us come back after all we've been through and Keith and I breaking our renewal. Meanwhile, the first interested people in our apartment came by to look....the first in a month since we broke our renewal! This sent us into a panic. Yikes!
d) James the Realtor called us 15 minutes after event (c) about a place that opened up unexpectedly and fit our bill. He took us there. We loved it. We even got half the fee paid by the landlord and he agreed to let us paint the walls in a non "landlord white" color. But then I obsessed over completing an application and writing a check after seeing only 2 apartments (we probably looked at close to 30 when we decided on this place in April/May 2004)...plus coming up with a first, last, security deposit, and fee. Plus moving expenses. Plus an extra month's rent as we have the place starting August 1st. But we filled out the application and provided a check. Having not signed the lease officially, we can back out, but still....
e) We called George and spoke to him. He seemed surprised that we would consider staying, but made it clear that he wanted his asking price $1650 or something close to it. Our new apartment is $1600 and very secure (the third floor of a house with three doors, two locked interiors to get to our apartment). We have to pay for the electric heat during the winter, but that's probably about $25 a month. The parking is improved. All in all we are only "out" the fee and moving costs. Plus we might be able to rent to own. After talking with George we decided to simply move on. If we had been offered $1520 (as in the original terms) or even $1550, we might have stayed. But the die is cast.
Saturday dawned. It was pretty uneventful. Mostly straightening up---groups three and four came to see the apartment. Keith didn't get to go visit the pawn shops because he miscommunicated with the detective handling our case. They will go this week to look at items. I went to work at 4:30 pm and worked until 9:15 pm. Got a lot done.
I'm not sure what to do with myself tomorrow. Keith has been particularly excited with me this week because I bought a GameCube with some graduation money (yes, a very un-Alyssa like decision) but its worth it with the doting I've received from Keith this week. I've never seen a man so excited about a purchase. Now with what we are facing in extra expenses, I'm sort of regretting that decision, but, I think we'll be fine.
Most likely I'll work on some genealogy stuff tomorrow, visit the office, and prepare for my OTHER interview Monday. I'm interviewing for a College Officer position too!
posted by Alyssa at 11:41 PM
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