Househunt

We met with Neil Garrett at 11:30 this morning. He only had 4 houses to show us, which made me nervous. The first was in the 38 1/2th Street area, known as French Place. We'd seen the house before when Neil had sent us listings by email, and it looked kind of in bad shape, a lot of junk in the yard, maybe an abandoned car outside the frame of the picture. In real life, the yard was bad, no car, but totally dead lawn and a weird like, "mural" on the front steps that could've been camouflaged graffiti. It was also SO close to the highway, I'm sure we would have heard it night and day. Inside it was okay, small, and the floors creaked terribly. It just needed a lot of work.

The next house was on the East Side, which I was worried about because of what we'd seen yesterday. It's not terrible over there at all, just kind of aesthetically unpleasant. But this area was much nicer, it was right off of MLK Blvd. It was a newly-built duplex, painted light yellow with green shutters and a red door. Everything was really new and nice, but it was almost a little too new, and there were no wood floors, only what I'm assuming is laminate flooring, like fake tiles in the living room and then carpet everywhere else, and my other problem is that the rooms were so unequal in size, one was small with one small closet, the other was one HUGE with a HUGE HUGE HUGE walk-in closet.

Next we went to Northwest Campus, aka Rosedale, to a really cute older (1950s) house that I really liked because it had nice old hardwood floors, but the kitchen wasn't in the greatest shape and Andrea says she noticed some possible moldy spots.

Last was a house that was sort of far out, I don't even remember the area name. but kind of far southwest of downtown. It was one of these like, flat-roofed 60s or 70s houses, pretty ugly and bland. The inside was okay, but the total deal-breaker for me was the hornets' nest right by the front door under the roof of the porch. The realtor said that would be really easy to get rid of with a can of raid, and did I want to see the other, even bigger nest on the other end of the porch. Guess what I said.

In the end we picked the new yellow house on the East Side, because it was closer to the bus lines and because the kitchen was nicer. We sort of had to rush through the application process, and pretty much in vain because the current lease on the house isn't up until Oct 1st. Which would be really unfortunate first because I'm not interested in sleeping in this hostel for that long, and second because our moving truck is going to arrive sometime between the 22nd (tomorrow) and the 26th, and for every day that they have to hold it for us they charge $75. Not key. But anyway now our application is in, we paid the security deposit, and we'll wait and see if we get it.