Here We Go Again

AKA The Search Is On.

We came up with all the money for the landlord in the end. Then he called yesterday afternoon and told us that he'd contacted our employers and references, but after reviewing everything he'd decided to terminate our lease and basically evict us. Fucking hell. No idea when they'll post the notice, but from that date, we have 10 days.

So now we're on the search for the impossible: a 2 or 3 bedroom place that a) will take small furry beings, b) is close to bus or Metro lines, c) has off-street parking for the slightly less than legal car of mine, and d) landlords who either won't do a credit check, or won't really care that much about our beyond shitty credit once they've got our thousands of dollars in their hot hands. I don't know if we can do it again. We found this place through a stroke of luck, and he didn't run credit checks on us. Oh, that reminds me, we'll have to get somebody to lie for us and pretend to be our landlord so we'll get a decent reference. Again, fucking hell.

I'm trying to look at the positives of the situation. The place we're in now really isn't the most convenient for public transportation. It's there, but sometimes massively inconvenient. The place also needs a complete overhaul. Seriously, the linoleum in the bathroom is covering holes in the subfloor. The bathroom has no ventilation, hell, the entire place has no ventilation, leading to problems with mold. The kitchen has so little counter space that it's hard to chop things up and cook. Oh, yeah, there are holes under the linoleum in there, too. My cell phone doesn't get reception in the house; I have to go outside on the carport to use it. Not so bad in the summer, but really not fun in the deep freeze that is January here. So we get to look for a place that's actually IN the city - finally, I'll have a DC address. We get to find a nice, new place with public transportation closer by.

On another note, we have taken in a pair of homeless young gentlemen. They just came out to their families a couple months ago, to which their families responded by kicking them out. They need a place to stay, we need money. So they can stay with us until they get their feet back under them (a few months) and we get help on the rent and bills. We are also looking at 3 bedroom places with a view to them being our roommates long term. Dunno how that'll turn out. But they are really sweet kids and very funny. They actually work at the same place as the Cuz, so that makes it all very convenient in terms of getting to work and home, and we know they're employed and when they get their checks.

Anyway, that's the update for today. I've got to go and do some more searches for apartments.