Apartment Hunting

I've been looking for a new apartment.  I really like the one that I have right now: the room is great, the roommates are great, and the location is pretty good (read: walking distance from campus).  Unfortunately, it's not near my new job and my roommates are moving away anyways.  So I started looking for a new place to live.

The first step was determining what I was looking for in a new apartment.  I decided that I wanted my apartment to be reasonably close to my new workplace, relatively cheap, and also near where my fiancée will be living.  This narrowed the options down considerably.  The next step was to search the internet, which resulted in a number of different places.  I narrowed those down and decided on three to visit.

Yesterday, I set out for the apartments.  The first place I visited was my anticipated first choice.  It's a town-house style apartment in a very large complex for a reasonable price.  I was very excited though it wasn't initially what I had imagined.  I next stopped by a large tower of apartments, but that turned out to be a home for the elderly, so that was less desirable.  Finally, I drove to the next town down the interstate and visited an apartment complex there... and things got interesting:

The landlord met me in the lobby and took me to the available apartment.  It was "cozy" (read: small) and although cheaper than the other apartment I looked at, was not quite as nice.  Also, the landlord kept telling me things that I immediately recognized as bologna.  He changed the price, he said that he had a waiting list to get in but had "moved me to the top".  He also didn't do any sort of credit check or anything, which struck me as a bit strange.  In any case, I opted to go with the first option.

So I went back and filled out an application.  The woman I had been interacting with offered to run my credit immediately and I didn't have anything pressing to attend to, so I waited.  I didn't anticipate having anything, but it turns out I have credit that is pretty darn good.  I was accepted and brought the deposit today.  So I officially have a place to live!  That is one of the last things that required my attention before my job starts in June.  Now I have to figure out how to get health insurance between graduation and the start of my employer-sponsored insurance and get myself a drug test...

...and one other thing: graduate from college!

-Lane