Renting A Home

Now that the backyard had been dug more quickly than the original estimate, we need to move out earlier than anticipated. We still have three more weeks before they need to tear down a few walls of the existing home.

The home rental market is pretty crazy. With all the new jobs and hiring in the area, there is competition to find a home to rent. Most of the places want a one-year lease at least, and preferably a longer term tenant. We're looking for a 6 month and then month-to-month, ideally.

We turned to craigslist and started sending out emails. Some of the people didn't even bother replying because there's so much interest in any decent property. They first home was small (like our current home) but the neighbors were much to be desired. The next two homes we looked at were pretty disappointing - very old (one of them was 100+ years) with odd layouts.

The fourth house we saw, we already knew we would most likely apply for. This is because we went to an open house in the complex a few years ago and had then agreed that it would've been a great place to live. Now we had an opportunity to actually live there! We were super excited because the location is near downtown.

Everything was as we had hoped. We were so eager to move in! Two even more awesome things:

1. We were the first people to look at the property; therefore, the first to apply
2. The rent is now offered at $400 lower than when we had seen the original craigslist posting!

We turned in the application that evening.
48 hours later, we got the lease contract!!!! :) :)