Friday, June 28, 2013

Moving Part IV: Housing

Right off of Namath is McLean and on McLean is a house, a very nice house at that.

Yesterday the three of us went on a very long tour of 5 different prospective houses and one of them was on a street called McLean.  We went through several streets named after famous ball ball players and we decided that we have to live in this neighborhood, if nothing else it'll make my aunt chortle with glee whenever she visits us.

Of all the houses we saw yesterday this was our favorite and we really wanted to get it.  So we returned to the lettings agent and we were told that there was already an application in for it and they just had to talk to the owner to see if the owner wanted these people or not.

So we sat there and decided on whether or not we wanted to go ahead and put an application in for this house, even though there was one pending.  Now, the agency is really good about this.  If you are interested in a house then you can put in an application.  If you're the first applicant for a house, they process it and if they approve you and if the owner approves you then you've got the house.  If you're a back up applicant then you get a shot if the the first applicant either fails to get the house or backs out of  it.

If you've been following the saga then you know that Sunday is the day to be out.  Saturday is the big day and we're going to get out of here and do who knows what next.  It's also our Big Clean.

Back to the house.

This afternoon we get a call from the lettings agency and they were letting us know that the house on McLean is available if we'd like to come in and pay for the application on that house.  Oh, you bet we would!  We all three jumped into the car and headed over there real quick like.  A couple were in front of us and they were told that applications usually take anywhere from 24-72 hours to process, though sometimes they take a week.  So we're hoping and praying that sometime tomorrow we'll get a call saying that our application's been accepted- hopefully we'll get a call saying our application's been approved and the owner has accepted the application and we're free to move in.

They're also open on Saturdays so, if we don't get a happy call on friday then God willing we'll get a happy call on Saturday!

But we shall see.

As far as this house well... we're going to start cleaning tomorrow.  We're going to get everything movable in the rooms and fit them downstairs and then we're going to clean them.  Tomorrow is going to be an annoyingly busy day.  But then each day has been annoyingly busy so what's a few more?

Still though, hard to think that we're going to be done with everything in just 3 days more.

Also, if you would like some wood, we have some and we're going to have problems moving it.  If you show up to help, then feel free to help yourself to some wood.  It's all cut and seasoned too!

Also, all the cars are now insured, registered and smogged.  Thank you God!

1 comment:

dedgren said...

Fingers crossed for the phone call, ma'am.