We had quite the experience with finding a new place. We had been searching for a couple months and had found the townhouses and liked them. Finally 2 became available the beginning of January. They were owned and managed by 2 different people. From this point forward in the story I will refer to the managers by good manager, and bad manager. We looked at good managers townhouse first. We liked him and the townhouse from the start. The only problem was he was renting his townhouse for 75 dollars more then the bad manager. And that was about 75 dollars more then we could afford to spend. Even though we were able to talk him down 25 dollars, we still just couldn't do it. So we looked at the bad manager's townhouse and liked the townhouse but felt a little bit more hesitant about the manager. We told him we would like to move in 2 weeks because we had a vacation planned for the end of January and wanted to be all moved in before then. He told us that wouldn't be a problem at all. He had a list of things he wanted to get done in the townhouse (maintenance/upgrade things) but should have everything done in a week! Sounded great to us! So we gave him the deposit to hold the townhouse for us and the plan was set to move the 19th of January.
The day before moving day we called bad manager to make sure everything was still in order for us to move. He told us he still had a couple things he needed to finish up but we could move Sunday for sure. This was slightly inconvenient for us but gave us all Saturday to finish packing everything. By Saturday night we were all completely packed up except for a bag full of clothes to get us by the next couple of days. Around 10 pm we get a call from bad manager saying he had some stuff come up and wasn't able to work on the apartment but we could move in Monday for sure for sure. I was a little frustrated at this point. EVERYTHING was packed and ready to be moved, and moving on a work day was VERY inconvenient for us. Sunday morning Scott drives over to the apartment to see whats going on. When he gets there he find that almost NOTHING has been done since we gave him the deposit TWO weeks ago! The apartment is still dirty from the last tenants and all of their garbage is still there. He hasn't cleaned anything. Bad manager tells Scott we can move Tuesday for sure, but Scott knows that there is no way he going to get everything done he said he would in two days. By now Scott and I have had enough red flags to know we DO NOT want to rent from this guy. We were glad we hadn't signed the lease and were not obligated to move there. But all of our stuff was packed and we had nowhere to go. The apartment we were in had already rented for February and we had to be out by the 31st of January.
We get online and notice good manager still has his townhouse for sale. So we call him up, knocked off some more money and were all set to move Monday. We had already given him an application and he had already accepted us at the beginning of the month so we didn't have to worry about any of that. I don't know how it all worked out in the end but it did.... Monday after work we had the elders quarm from our ward helping us move all our stuff and by Monday night we were in our new townhouse. It is so much bigger then anything we have lived in since we have been married that we don't quite know what to do with all the space or with ourselves!
To finish the story.... Monday Scott went over and told bad manager we'd decided not to move in and would like our deposit back. He took it a lot better then we thought he would, tried to talk us into it a little, then told us he didn't have the money to give back our deposit but would be able to get it by Thursday. To make an already long story shorter... From this point, two week later, we have received a little more then half of the deposit (which we finally got on Saturday) and am still waiting for the rest of it. We aren't to worried about getting it... eventually... We just don't know how much longer we'll have to wait for it. Scott keeps on his tail about it everyday. Most of the time he ignores our calls, emails and texts. But if we keep hounding him them we'll get it... eventually.... He should have never deposited it in the first place before we had even signed a lease. This was a great lesson for both of us though! The spirit talks to us for a reason. Neither of us felt good about the manager in the first place and we were just to eager to get a new apartment to listen. We hope to do much much better in the future so that we don't have to deal with drama like this again. But I'm still amazing that everything worked out so nicely in the end. Maybe it was supposed to work out like this so that we could get the townhouse that we really wanted at a price we could afford. Who knows... Either way I'm so happy we ended up where we were and not where we could have been.
I'm glad we decided to move when we did because I'm not even that big and I feel like when I was trying to clean and pack and move my belly was getting in the way all over the place. So I can only imagine how much worse it would have been a couple months down the road! Ok... Now for what you've all been waiting for! PICTURES!!!
The door of our Second home together! It was a nice place to live and we enjoyed the manager, neighbors and cute little apartment that it was! Good bye!
Getting everything packed! This is the only moving picture I have... Cuz I'm good like that.
No judging clutter and boxes! We are still in final stages of unpacking!
Living Room from front door
Living Room
Dining Room
Kitchen
Half bath and Coat closet under stairs
Up to the Second Level!
Full bath and my personal favorite, Washer and Dryer! YAAAAY!!!
Master Bedroom from door
Master bedroom
Guest room/Baby Bergy's room!
Fenced in back patio with 2 port garage! Perfect for Cricket! My second favorite thing... Not having to take Cricket out and just letting her go out the back door by herself! So nice!
