Simone has a new job, so that can only mean one thing. It’s house hunting season again! Time to move out of our apartment that is literally the size of a two car garage (because it sits atop a two car garage)! Time to move somewhere closer to civilization (or at least closer to her job)! Time to move somewhere that has stairs (well, that’s not a must in my book, but Ruby really misses having stairs)!
Looking for a place to rent is infinitely more fun than looking for a place to buy. There are no nasty mortgage people to deal with, no realtors, no inspections, far less paperwork, and best of all, no long-term commitment. For an opera singer on the go, and for someone who hopes and expects his income to drastically change over the next few years, this sounds perfect.
So we have a few requirements for the place we are going to live. It has to be pretty cheap, but also really nice. We need at least three bedrooms, and one of us really wants stairs. It has to be close to Simone’s new job, and also close to a store of some kind, so that we do not have to drive thirty minutes to get groceries like we do now. Of course they have to allow cats, and have a washer and dryer (since we couldn’t fit ours in the truck and left them in Baltimore). A hot tub would be nice. I think that’s it. So where to find this place? Craigslist!
I feel like I have a lot of criteria listed, and was surprised to find several likely looking place on Craigslist. We’re going to look at one place tomorrow, and I’ve heard back from a few more. Hopefully by February we will be in a new place. We can’t move in January, since I will be in Florida, and I am not allowed to just show up at the end of the move with pizza, like I did last time.
Wish us luck! The last thing we feel like doing is packing everything up and moving again, but the first thing we feel like doing is getting into a new place that our growing family will fit into. I can’t wait to write my blog called “Moving Day Again.”