we woke up bright and early this morning {okay, 8:00} and headed to tulsa around 9:00. we had a 10:00 appointment at a complex we had never before visited. we decided to give it a shot because the pictures online looked so cool. when we arrived, however, no one was at the office. we waited for 15 minutes, walked around the complex, headed back to the office, and decided to leave when we found it had yet to be unlocked.
we drove around a few other apartments i had scoped out and waited for calls back on a couple of houses i had found on craigslist. those babies went fast, though. each of the ones that had been posted on friday were already rented by the time i got a call. bummer.
we really wanted to be in a rent house instead of an apartment so connor could have a yard. i have been surprised at how difficult it's been for us to find a home to rent. while at TU i always had a rent house, and both of the ones i had were pretty easy to find. that has not been the case for us.
we stopped into a "brokers" (?) office to pick up a listing of available properties. we would get to the neighborhoods, think they looked clean and cute ... until we got to the area the rental property was in and it went downhill from there. even travis didn't want to live in any of them {and he's always telling me to sacrifice now so we can have what we really want later}.
our last stop out of town was the greens in broken arrow. we really wanted to be in broken arrow so my drive to muskogee for work wouldn't be that bad, but would still put us in the tulsa area and out of the town i hate so much. i was actually really surprised when we walked into the model and saw how large and open everything was. apartments often feel like a box, but this didn't seem to be the case with this model.
we walked around for a bit after leaving the manager back at the office following our tour. we checked out the location of the apartment they had available and decided that it wasn't bad. we went back to the office and put down on application fee, security deposit, and pet deposit for mr. connor.
it felt so good to finally be making progress and moving forward, but i also immediately had a little "buyers' remorse" thinking about the idea of a house ... and how it will be a year at least until we find ourselves in one. i didn't dwell on it for long, though; the idea of moving was too exciting to focus on the not-so-great.
i'm also super excited that we'll be living right across the street from kate and nick's neighborhood. did i mention kate and nick bought a house??? very, very exciting. they were supposed to close yesterday, but the underwriter didn't get everything completed. monday is the day for them.
we'll get to move in on june 5 ... right before i leave for hawaii! aghh! but a huge relief at the same time!
i decided to post a few pictures of the model just so you have an idea of how it looks. i wish the appliances weren't white, but what are you going to do?
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