Adventures In Apartment Hunting

[randi1978]

For starters, I am pretty sure I found an apartment.  YAY!  The owner of the little apartment complex is willing to look past my cruddy credit and eviction if my co-signer is approved.  I also have to pay double deposit.  So, there will be a $1390 deposit on an apartment that rents for $695 a month.  It's a quaint little two bedroom.  Not terribly small, but little smaller than the apartment I wanted at another complex.

Wednesday this last week was my day off.  I went and looked at several apartment complexes thru the day while juggling an appointment for Michelle.  I was also doing this in between dropping her off for school and picking her up, LOL.  I went and looked at one, took an indoor tour of another (the master bedroom of this one place was bigger than the living room, kitchen and second bedroom combined!!!!), and then eventually found another that was much nicer.  But they want soooo much from the co-signer.  They want photocopies of my grandmother's social security card, copies of her awards letter, any paystubs for her pensions, etc....I told her not to worry.  The place is nice, but they really want too much from both of us.  They want a letter from my old apartment complex stating that I was unaware of husband not paying rent.  How the hell am I supposed to get that?  The management doesn't know whether I knew about it or not!  And not only that, the apartments are under all new management.  This all happened in 2005, the records are buried. 

So, it pretty much means I am getting the other apartment.  It's $20 more a month than the uber nice one that wanted all this crap from me and my co-signer, it's further out in the boonies than I wanted, but the place is nice and the guy is willing to look pass my bad history.  Landlord seems a bit overworked, but nice enough.  He manages properties all over town.  And they're all pretty well kept.  So, I have confidence to some extent that he's not gonna be a slumlord.  Once the apartment I am getting is vacant (people are moving out and the unit will be available beg of March), we will do a walk thru.  I plan to bring my camera and a notebook to note any issues the unit might have.  He had concerns over my daughter.  Worried that she will do something to wreck the place.  I want pictures of the unit prior to move in so he can't blame previous tenant damage on my kid.  The way he went about it, I almost thought he was gonna ask for an additional deposit for my kid.  I understand he wants to protect his investment, but holy hell. 

So, there ya have it folks.  Randi is finally moving out.  Michelle and my mom are not handling it well, LOL.  Both me and my dad are jumping for joy.

[Kidsmamabear]

Feb. 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM

I would jump to Randy but I might break something so I will shout for joy WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!