it is done - rental chosen
Apr. 30th, 2005 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeI've rented a place on Capitol Hill. The apartment is a beautiful corner unit on the top floor, hardwood floors, lots of convenient cabinets and built-in bookshelves (including some along the top of two walls in the living room) a decent sized kitchen with a gas range, two blocks from a bus line to the UW. The landlord apartment manager seems really friendly, in a good way -- he's about my age; he's a writer who likes Neal Stephenson and Salman Rushdie, and his partner is a Bastyr-educated midwife. He was so eager to rent the place that he knocked off $400 from the first month's rent just for getting the application in today.
Extra bonus: the previous tenant was moving out but didn't know what to do with the moderately-nice [Ikea-class] sofa she couldn't use in her new place. So I get it -- for free. It folds out into a bed!
Biggest negative (not huge): it's in Cap Hill, not East Cap Hill or the CD. I've been looking in general for a place farther east and not in the middle of hipster alley. ah well. as afeckless carless wonder, it will be nice to be near Broadway. And it's still walking distance to about four grocery stores.
Big uncomfortable moment past: calling current landlord to explain that I'm moving out and he may expect a reference call from my new potential landlords. They didn't answer, so I left a rather awkward message explaining that due to some complicated circumstances, I am moving out and K and A are staying in the apartment. I of course am staying on the lease and told them my cell number so they could get a hold of me if there was ever a problem with the lease. I'm trying so hard to be responsible about it, but I know it's going to make the landlords at the current place nervous.
ah well. I am happy to have chosen a place. Hope there's no big nasty blowup with the old landlord.
Extra bonus: the previous tenant was moving out but didn't know what to do with the moderately-nice [Ikea-class] sofa she couldn't use in her new place. So I get it -- for free. It folds out into a bed!
Biggest negative (not huge): it's in Cap Hill, not East Cap Hill or the CD. I've been looking in general for a place farther east and not in the middle of hipster alley. ah well. as a
Big uncomfortable moment past: calling current landlord to explain that I'm moving out and he may expect a reference call from my new potential landlords. They didn't answer, so I left a rather awkward message explaining that due to some complicated circumstances, I am moving out and K and A are staying in the apartment. I of course am staying on the lease and told them my cell number so they could get a hold of me if there was ever a problem with the lease. I'm trying so hard to be responsible about it, but I know it's going to make the landlords at the current place nervous.
ah well. I am happy to have chosen a place. Hope there's no big nasty blowup with the old landlord.
