Apartment stress
That will be resolved by tomorrow I think (hope), but...
The girl at the apt complex called last Thursday and told me she "quoted the specials wrong", and that we either need to sign a longer lease to get the same rent rate, or we don't get the first month free (which is Sept. When we won't even be there). We signed paperwork and applications, and gave good faith deposit, but no lease... So of course I asked to speak to the manager and was told "I already talked to her, and there is nothing that can be done." (Righhhht). Of course, I told her that I still wanted to speak to the manager directly, and found out that she won't be back in the office until tomorrow. Fine. Matt and I started looking for a Plan B, and actually found a townhouse in the same complex being rented by the owner... it's a 3 bed/2 bath, with a garage, and 2 floors, and it's $150 cheaper/mo. Unfortunately, we'd have to take it by Sept 1st and pay a month of rent that we're not there for.... hmmmm.... By the way, Sept 1st is next Weds. I'm skeptical that both these places will find other tenants by then. But I digress.
The townhouse has another applicant already, but apparently they have bad credit and are just under the salary requirements. So if we submitted our app ASAP, there was a good chance we would get the townhouse. But we won't talk to the apartment people until Monday. So as of yesterday morning, we had 2 sets of checks outstanding - $700 to the apartment complex, and $570 to the townhouse (which we overnighted - add another $30). This morning, I see that the apartment complex has cashed our checks. (a heavily sarcastic) Super. I don't even know what outcome I'm pulling for, but hopefully the one where we don't end up paying for 2 separate places and then fighting a protracted battle to get the money back. And of course we're still paying rent in MA for this month. My husband seems to not seem to care about this stress... except for making comments like "We've been spending a lot of money lately", at which point I want to turn around and beat him. Probably just misplaced stress....
(And when I'm stressed, you know how I like to unwind? Retail therapy! That is probably not the solution this time though....)
The girl at the apt complex called last Thursday and told me she "quoted the specials wrong", and that we either need to sign a longer lease to get the same rent rate, or we don't get the first month free (which is Sept. When we won't even be there). We signed paperwork and applications, and gave good faith deposit, but no lease... So of course I asked to speak to the manager and was told "I already talked to her, and there is nothing that can be done." (Righhhht). Of course, I told her that I still wanted to speak to the manager directly, and found out that she won't be back in the office until tomorrow. Fine. Matt and I started looking for a Plan B, and actually found a townhouse in the same complex being rented by the owner... it's a 3 bed/2 bath, with a garage, and 2 floors, and it's $150 cheaper/mo. Unfortunately, we'd have to take it by Sept 1st and pay a month of rent that we're not there for.... hmmmm.... By the way, Sept 1st is next Weds. I'm skeptical that both these places will find other tenants by then. But I digress.
The townhouse has another applicant already, but apparently they have bad credit and are just under the salary requirements. So if we submitted our app ASAP, there was a good chance we would get the townhouse. But we won't talk to the apartment people until Monday. So as of yesterday morning, we had 2 sets of checks outstanding - $700 to the apartment complex, and $570 to the townhouse (which we overnighted - add another $30). This morning, I see that the apartment complex has cashed our checks. (a heavily sarcastic) Super. I don't even know what outcome I'm pulling for, but hopefully the one where we don't end up paying for 2 separate places and then fighting a protracted battle to get the money back. And of course we're still paying rent in MA for this month. My husband seems to not seem to care about this stress... except for making comments like "We've been spending a lot of money lately", at which point I want to turn around and beat him. Probably just misplaced stress....
(And when I'm stressed, you know how I like to unwind? Retail therapy! That is probably not the solution this time though....)
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