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Ideal_Rock
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How's everything going, TP? It's been quiet on the boards this week!
Things are SOOOO crazy with us right now, I'm ready for a break! *We* are fantastic, but work (for both of us) and other things are so stressful right now. We're having PITA maintenance problems with our current rental. We're sick of the problems here so we're finally mentally there are ready to do some apartment hunting for a new place. Our lease is up 6/30 and we'd have to give notice by 4/30 if we aren't renewing here so we only have a few weeks to figure something out. We're ready for a lifestyle upgrade (just a little one, we can't swing a super huge increase in rent), but the issues with our place (maintenance and otherwise) have started outweighing the cost savings to me in the last year and I'm not sure I'm up for another year (or more) of living here because of them.
The looking is fun, theoretically, but for me (at least right now) it's just stressful. Coordinating is the worst part since most places require you to give 60 days notice and many new places won't let you sign that far out since they don't want things sitting vacant for that long and many don't know their June availability yet since people who's leasing are coming up haven't actually given their notices yet. It's rough because i'm not totally comfortable giving notice here until we've secured something else because all things considered, we've got a killer deal here. Quality is lacking, but we can't beat the price for the great neighborhood we're in and the square footage we have. If we couldn't get an actual upgrade in quality for our budget (200-350/mo more than we're paying now), we'd just assume stay put. Sigh -- we're in a private rental too (not a complex) and month-to-month is not an option.
The other stressors come from location. We live in the Central part of the city right now which (for me) is super great because I'm only 2 miles from work but Andrew has a 19 mile (1ish hour each way) commute all the way out to the West part of the city. I'd love to make his commute better and split the difference, but rentals in that area are way out of budget (looking at closer to double what we pay now), but even aside from the cost, he's looking to switch jobs and I'd hate to move out to the West part of town for him to end up any where not in/near the West part of town putting us back in the same commuting situation. Right now, from where we are centrally he could get to just about anywhere in the city in a 1 hour commute so staying central seems to make the most sense for our budget and for his commute until he finds/settles into something more permanent. We found what seems to be a great opportunity he got his application in for over the weekend, I'd love to see that pan out because it'll half his commute from our current neighborhood and the mileage would be North/South instead of East/West. There are plenty of routes to travel North/South here, but East/West is all surface streets with insane traffic. His commute would half, if not quarter with that position.
There is a complex I lived in from 09-11 that is AMAZING and we're very interested in moving back there but we can't sign for them this far out and have no idea what the June availability or pricing will be just yet. We'll be going back mid-April to see if we can secure a June opening. I hate all the logistics.
Things are SOOOO crazy with us right now, I'm ready for a break! *We* are fantastic, but work (for both of us) and other things are so stressful right now. We're having PITA maintenance problems with our current rental. We're sick of the problems here so we're finally mentally there are ready to do some apartment hunting for a new place. Our lease is up 6/30 and we'd have to give notice by 4/30 if we aren't renewing here so we only have a few weeks to figure something out. We're ready for a lifestyle upgrade (just a little one, we can't swing a super huge increase in rent), but the issues with our place (maintenance and otherwise) have started outweighing the cost savings to me in the last year and I'm not sure I'm up for another year (or more) of living here because of them.
The looking is fun, theoretically, but for me (at least right now) it's just stressful. Coordinating is the worst part since most places require you to give 60 days notice and many new places won't let you sign that far out since they don't want things sitting vacant for that long and many don't know their June availability yet since people who's leasing are coming up haven't actually given their notices yet. It's rough because i'm not totally comfortable giving notice here until we've secured something else because all things considered, we've got a killer deal here. Quality is lacking, but we can't beat the price for the great neighborhood we're in and the square footage we have. If we couldn't get an actual upgrade in quality for our budget (200-350/mo more than we're paying now), we'd just assume stay put. Sigh -- we're in a private rental too (not a complex) and month-to-month is not an option.
The other stressors come from location. We live in the Central part of the city right now which (for me) is super great because I'm only 2 miles from work but Andrew has a 19 mile (1ish hour each way) commute all the way out to the West part of the city. I'd love to make his commute better and split the difference, but rentals in that area are way out of budget (looking at closer to double what we pay now), but even aside from the cost, he's looking to switch jobs and I'd hate to move out to the West part of town for him to end up any where not in/near the West part of town putting us back in the same commuting situation. Right now, from where we are centrally he could get to just about anywhere in the city in a 1 hour commute so staying central seems to make the most sense for our budget and for his commute until he finds/settles into something more permanent. We found what seems to be a great opportunity he got his application in for over the weekend, I'd love to see that pan out because it'll half his commute from our current neighborhood and the mileage would be North/South instead of East/West. There are plenty of routes to travel North/South here, but East/West is all surface streets with insane traffic. His commute would half, if not quarter with that position.
There is a complex I lived in from 09-11 that is AMAZING and we're very interested in moving back there but we can't sign for them this far out and have no idea what the June availability or pricing will be just yet. We'll be going back mid-April to see if we can secure a June opening. I hate all the logistics.
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