Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Serendipity
We’ve been looking at apartments and various houses, duplexes, townhomes and guest houses for rent. Man there’s a lot of crappy places out there, especially when compared to a nicely fixed up house like ours. We found endless teeny weeny bedrooms, old run-down appliances, and outlets so dated they don’t even have the third prong hole. (Enter Beavis and Butthead: Uhh huhuhuhuh… you said prong hole.)
Anyway, we finally found a really nice place for just under $2000, and in a nice area to boot. The landlord said someone else was hoping to apply there too, so yesterday I rushed the application over and was pleased to have beaten her by 10 minutes. It wasn’t as cheap as we were hoping for, but it was manageable (unlike our mortgage).
That same day I got home from work and the first thing out of my sweety’s mouth was, “I found us a house!”
I was dumbfounded. I kind of stared at her, probably slackjawed, like a jock in trigonometry class. “A house?”
“Yes! A house! for $1600!”
“What? Where? How?” I was still trying to wrap my brain around the possibility. Thus far everything we’d looked at that was under $1800 was unacceptable or unavailable.
She went on to tell me that someone had told her about a house for rent a few blocks from our current residence. Upon arrival it had already been rented, but as she was driving away she noticed a For Rent sign posted on the lawn of another house. Turns out it was really nice inside, and cheap! We get the impression that it’s the home owner’s first time renting, so the way I see it, both sides were very lucky to have found each other. And it’s only two blocks from our house!
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