housing

I meant to do a video tour of our temporary housing, but then we moved in/got settled and I was too embarrassed with all the stuff laying around. ;) I was cleaning the other day and decided to take some pictures, so these will have to suffice.

Our current apartment, provided by General Atomics, is a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom walk-up. There's a 2-car garage with a huge storage closet and a full-sized washer and dryer. The temporary housing company furnished the apartment - couch, table, tv, beds, crib, etc.
 

 

 You can see the landing/stairway that goes down to the front door and garage (on right).

 Love this kitchen! There's tons of storage space (we don't have our stuff here, but it's still nice to have).

 

 The second bedroom was furnished with 2 twin beds. The crib was originally in the master with us, but we moved it because I don't sleep well in the same room as Elise. (Note the baby on the bed - doesn't come standard with the apartment, of course. ;) I was washing the crib sheet, so she was napping on the bed.)

 

 Nice big master bedroom. Excuse the bed, I was washing the sheets.

Master bath.

Other side of the master bath. I was standing in the walk-in closet to take the picture.

After about 2 weeks (it seemed like months) of searching for a place to rent, I finally found a place that fit pretty will with our specifications. It's in the same ward that we live in now (I really like this ward, and while it wouldn't have been the end of the world to be in a different one, it's nice to be sticking around), it has a washer and dryer, it's a little closer to Brian's work, it has 2 bedrooms (not necessary, but a definite perk), it's well within our housing budget, and I think we'll manage to fit in the space (833 sq ft - we had about 1400 in our townhouse, including the basement, so hopefully we got rid of enough stuff). We've already talked to a realtor and mortgage broker, so the plan is to rent for the short term and save some money every month to put toward a down payment. I haven't seen the lease yet, but the property management company said it would be a 10 or 11 month lease so that it ends at a better time of year for the housing market. That's fine with us, since we originally wanted a 6-9 month lease but couldn't find anything cheap enough for the short term.

You can see pictures of our new condo here. There used to be a video walkthrough on that site, but I guess it's been taken down since the property is no longer available.

We can move in on October 15th. We'll have our stuff delivered there. We never had it delivered to our temporary apartment because we didn't want to have to move everything, including the piano, by ourselves when we left. It's been a bit of a hassle not to have certain things since we didn't pack for 2 months, but we've done our best with what we have. I won't lie, I'm excited to have something to wear besides the 5 shirts I packed. ;)