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09 July 2006

Apartment update... that was fast WE GOT IT!!!!!→[More:]

I think I am going to faint. And I can't stop laughing and telling everyone I know.

It is one of the most stunning apartments I've ever seen.
The living room is bigger than our entire place now, with huge windows the length of it that look out on the main street in our neighborhood. There's a 12*6ish alcove with french doors at one end, which is perfect for my roommate's band gear.
The kitchen... a dream. Cabinets. Fridge. A GAS STOVE! A dining room big enough for the table I've never been able to use.

The roommate gets one big bedroom (well, 10*15ish, which is small by local standards, but not too bad). I get two smaller ones on a private hall with a door, which I'm treating as a suite. One would fit about a queen and little else, or a double and small dresser. But I'm doing a bed in one, dressers in the other.

Which is odd, but the smaller room was his ex's, so he wouldn't touch it. And, I like the idea. A dressing room. So rockstar. Since it's technically the western end of the place I have decided I will tell people I live in the west wing.

The irony... in a neighborhood where people would kill their mothers for off street parking we have a driveway... and no car.

I am so so happy right now.

post by: kellydamnit at: 14:04 | 13 comments

That place sounds amazing! How great for you. Could you maybe even rent out the parking space? I know people who've done that here.

posted by cali 09 July | 14:11

We were actually thinking about it. A friend lives about three buildings down, and she has trouble finding parking since her place doesn't have off-street.

posted by kellydamnit 09 July | 14:13

gas stoves rock.

posted by psho 09 July | 14:19

They do!
Ours now is old, electric, "apartment sized."
And it leans.

So a new gas stove will be awesome. I learned to cook on one, that was all I used until I lived here. So I will be much better off!

but, the lease is signed. The landlord here has been emailed. I always get nervous moving, but there's no going back now!

posted by kellydamnit 09 July | 14:27

yeah, gas stoves totally rock.

posted by JanetLand 09 July | 14:39

Yay, gas stove! I'm at the point where the rest of the apartment would have to be otherwordly nice before I'd consider going back to electric.

I totally suggest renting out the parking space. I managed to knock $200 off my rent the last time I was able to do that. (It's amazing what lawyers with oversized Porsche SUVs are willing to pay for a dedicated parking space. Even better was that he drew up a very nice official contract for the rental that held him responsible for any damage to the property and absolved me of any responsibility for damages to his car. I also totally recommend such a contract.)

posted by occhiblu 09 July | 15:04

damn... $200!
That's more than a third of our rent, so I doubt we'd get that much.

I may tell my friend she can use it for $30 or so a month.
Have to work it out with the landlord, too, though. Don't want to piss her off right off the bat.

posted by kellydamnit 09 July | 15:17

Congratulations!

I remember how great it felt when I moved into a place I loved from the cramped, ugly apartment I'd been in before. I'd be at work, happy enough as it was, but then suddenly I'd start to grin...wow, I'd think, in just a little while I get to GO HOME!

I'd never quite realized how crucial it is to like where you live.

posted by tangerine 09 July | 16:48

Hey! Right on! Congratulations!

posted by small_ruminant 09 July | 17:49

You know, I posted the parking ad on Craig's List at $200, figuring no one would take me up on it and I'd just keep knocking $25 off until someone bit, and I got a response within hours.

But this was in Washington DC, where parking's a disaster, in a rapidly gentrifying area where too many really nice cars where getting broken into on the street, so... yeah.

posted by occhiblu 09 July | 19:31

yeah, in Buffalo that wouldn't fly. We guessed the new place to be about 1200 to 1500 square feet, and that's more than a third of our rent. Real estate here is cheap.

So, figuring $50 would be more fair, and less for a friend.

We've spent the entire day discussing where everything will go, and who we can hit up to help us move.
This is going to be the longest month ever!

posted by kellydamnit 09 July | 22:09

Ah. Yeah. The rent was $1200-ish for a one bedroom.

posted by occhiblu 10 July | 02:03

Woohoo! : )

posted by sisterhavana 10 July | 08:55

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