I've been looking at apartments online--in preparation for my future move to Seattle. I've looked up the apartments on the very cool Google map that shows the satellite view. I've worked out budgets that show how much money I need to earn each month to rent one of those apartments. I decided I liked the ones with the washer/dryer in the apartment. It was all very good. I knew I was going to have to save a lot of money to be able to pay that whole first/last/deposit thing--in addition to paying the rent on my apartment here for that transition month, renting a truck for moving, not to mention moving muscle. I figured I was looking at a move in August or September. Sounded good.
Then I screwed up totally. Today I was accidentally looking at that same cool Google map and I clicked on something I hadn't clicked on before and I saw something that led me to do something else, and pretty soon, before I knew what had happened, I had called a couple of the apartment buildings that weren't listed on that online apartment finder. The first one was easy--the apartment was too small, too expensive, no view of anything, no washer or dryer--basically not an apartment I would want to live in. Then I called the second one, though. Mary, the apartment manager, told me she had two units available, a studio with den and a one-bedroom with den. The one-bedroom was far too expensive for my budget but the studio with den was 600 square feet (I think that may be larger than the one-bedroom apartment I had just before this one and it may be only 50 or so square feet smaller than my two-bedroom apartment. It's on the sixth floor, has views of the water AND the mountains, a washer and dryer in the apartment, and, well, it sounds perfect! Crap! Oh, and it's available June 5th. I can't do June 5th. I need to have at least one more month to have the money for the move.
I talked to my sister, Carla, about it and she suggested I ask if I could have until the 15th. I thought about it and if I am amazingly disciplined and work my butt off the rest of this month I might be able to swing it. I'm going to go look at it on Wednesday. Maybe it will be too small/poorly maintained/ugly.... Maybe Mary will say I don't have the right kind of references or the deposits will be too high. Then again, maybe she'll really like me and want me to move in and help me make it work.
I'm scared and excited and wondering if I'm jumping into this too quickly. I have a nasty habit of doing that. Well, I only have a couple of days to figure out whether or not I'm moving too fast because that's when I need to ask if I can get what I need to even possibly make it work.
I'll let you know.
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