Apt hunting

We were in Worcester, MA yesterday to look for a place to live. It had to be easy, right?! I mean come on, if we could find a place in Staten Freakin Island, we could find a place here. It turned out to be just as easy, but a little more stressful.

We came to MA with a few numbers, an email from a friend, and the computer. Adam had only been here for his interview, and I had never been. It reminds me of Toledo a little bit. A few nice areas, a few not so nice areas, some fantastic parks (most better than Toledo's) and a downtown (Toledo's downtown is way better though.) We picked up a paper, drove around and come to find out....most people don't want dogs in their rentals in this town. Thankfully a friend of a friend suggested a community called Plantation Ridge.

It's a fairly new, pretty typical apartment complex, except that they are super dog friendly! You do have to pay extra per month for your dogs, but they have a giant dog run, and walking trails on their property for heaven's sake!!! It's pretty fantastic! So we go in talk to the sweetest leasing agent and they happen to have one apt. available on the first floor, it's a 2 bedroom, and they are running a move in special! YAY! We take a look and it's great...much bigger than what we have now (though a shoebox is bigger than what we have now!), a little on the hotel-ish side, but all in all a good choice.

So we put down a deposit (a ridiculously small deposit compared to New York standards...it is truly insane what one goes through in NY...thank God we're leaving!) We start filling out the application and find out that to be approved by Adam's income alone we are 1% shy of what they require! One stupid point!!! So we have to be approved with my income too, which is fine, but I dont' have a job yet. The lady says they will go off of my current job, and we'll be fine....but it still makes me nervous. Nonetheless we gave her the money, signed the lease, and said a prayer! Thankfully the lease becomes null and void if they don't approve us, and we get our money back. That's all fine in dandy, but then we'll be stuck again and have to come looking for something else. The leasing agent was so sweet and reassured us that we'll be fine....I certainly hope so!

So we still need some positive energy to help us get through this! Keep your fingers crossed everyone that I will either find a job before then (highly unlikely) or they'll just approve us because they want our business and because we rock:) TIA!