• 25th January
    2012
  • 25

weigh in wednesday, apartment hunting & more

i’m not getting into all the numbers, but i’ve lost 2# since last wednesday. i weight 213. i’m down 96#.

went to the top 2 apartments on my list today. went to my second favorite first. disappointed. they didn’t have a model to show me, other than a 4 bedroom, which i declined to look at b/c it doesn’t help me figure out what a 1 bedroom looks like. pet rent is super expensive ($300 deposit plus $50/mo)!!! and she said most of her 1 bedroom apartments are on the 3rd floor. i don’t mind stairs, but when moving in/out & carrying purchases up, it’ll suck. the woman asked me if i wanted to do an application. um, no. i’m not paying a $65 application fee to an apartment i haven’t seen & don’t even know if i’ll like. 

so then i went to the one on the top of my list. community even nicer looking than i thought. online said 1 bedroom was $616/mo. she said base price for 1 bedroom is $847. my (low) income qualifies me for that, but also an even more discounted price. i qualify for rent at $501/mo. problem is, there is a wait list for that and she said approximately 12 months if she had to guess b/c the list is long. but i could still do the $616/mo. that one only has one person on wait list. the models she showed me (the furnished model they show that’s a downstairs apt & she showed me an upstairs one that was empty) looked wonderful. i really like the size and layout. so i decided to go ahead and do the application today and try to get on the wait list.

i’m always nervous about moments like this when they do credit check. but low and behold, i was approved. so i paid $100 holding fee (that will go towards my deposit) and i’m officially on the wait list. so she will call me whenever a 1 bedroom is available and i can let her know if i want it or if i want to wait. she said that wait list is about 3-4 mo of waiting. perfect for when i want to move!

so this all seems to be going right. just need some money to get here and i’ll be good to go. my dad just called me (yeah, at 10:40pm). he just found out about my bro’s divorce. he’s pretty upset. he seems to think that my brother is perfect and he’s such a good dad. what does being a good dad have to do w/ his wife cheating on him? whatever. anyway, he was calling to find out my vacation dates before he books his trip to come down here. 

been doing a lot of cleaning. really gotta downsize on the stuff i’ve accumulated all these years. moving from a 3 bed/2.5 bath condo to a 1/1 apartment is a bit of a difference. i’m working on my budgeting and figuring out what i’ll need to buy for the place to make it livable. not everything here in the condo belongs to me, so i have to give some back. i’ve been skimming though my ikea book every day. such amazing stuff at that place. definitely think i’ll be getting a sofa from there. probably some other stuff too. so much to do & think about. busy, busy, busy.

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