Here's the story...
Our lease for this place was supposed to end at the end of June, at which point we were looking for another place to move, for several reasons. Our apartment now is feeling a little cramped, and the one and only bedroom we have is freezing in the winter. Everywhere but our bedroom has central heat and our poorly installed swamp cooler in the window just makes it feel like the window is open 24/7. Despite our space heater's best efforts... it just can't quite keep up. So with a baby on the way... we decided it would be much better to not sign another year contract in a drafty and cramped apartment.
Seeing as we'd have a < 1 month little guy at the time of the move, I didn't want to be touring apartments and stressing about where we're moving too around that time so I kinda got a jump start on apartment searches. We looked at several different apartment complexes within the area and weren't overly pleased with anything. On a whim, I got onto Craigslist, just to look around at price ranges, what's available, locations, etc.
I clicked on an apartment just to look at the pictures and loved it. It was one of the cheaper apartments that I'd seen listed, had plenty of space, and looked very nice! Available February 1st.
I thought to myself...
Me: "Well, that's a shame. Too bad we can't move now!"
Looked at the address...
Me: "171 South, 500 West, Provo, Utah? (We're 165 South) Jimmie... Isn't this right next to us? Which house is 171?"
Jimmie: "It's the apartment right across the hall in this building, why?"
And so it began. We emailed our landlord that night explaining our situation and asking if he'd rented the apartment out yet or if he'd be willing to let us move there and try and sell this place. He called us early the next morning and said that it would actually be perfect for us to move there because he likes us and our current unit has always been easier to sell because it's cheaper and unique.
Current tenant moved out on the 1st, cleaners have been in and out for the last week, we'll meet with our landlord tomorrow to sign some papers to switch over to the new place, and then we can move in! We're VERY excited. We like it better, it covers everything that we need, and will make things much much easier to be able to move now instead of later.
So that's what we'll be doing this weekend. I'll get some pictures up once we finally get things in place over there, but we were able to take a video tour of the place before we into the process of moving.
So here's the video for you:
[So to clarify my confusing ramblings through part of the video... What I was trying to say is that the apartment has central heat. The 1.5 bedroom on the side doesn't have the heat, but it stays nice and warm if you leave the doors open to the rest of the house during the day. The problem in our drafty other room here is that it's installed poorly so the cold outside air creeps in. This room has a swamp cooler (which is a type of A/C for you east coasters), BUT we're able to close the window over top of it and seal off the room. The swamp cooler in the other room is installed properly and sealed super well and does have central heat. Hence the heat issue being fixed :) ]
There's been a good deal of things that I've been meaning to post on the blog. Plenty of baby prep, craft projects, etc. I think that stuff will all come after the move though. I know you're just can't WAIT to read more of my ramblings and see my pointless million pictures I take, but you'll just have to wait another week ;)
That's all for now folks! I'm sure you'll be seeing plenty very soon.
