...about trying to get a place to live: if you make too much money, you can't live some places, and yet, in a month, we will be making no money at all.
We went apartment hunting today since we can't get a home loan because they all require job offer letters for getting pre-approved regardless of what's in our savings account and the fact that a mortgage would be less than renting, but that's another story. SO yeah... we went apartment hunting. Due to all these home foreclosures and whatnot, the apartments are all at about 99% capacity... and here in Lebanon, TN, most of the apartment complexes are "tax restricted". I got corrected for asking if a place was income restricted... she told me no, they were tax restricted... ok, same thing. We would have to apply for the apartment now, and since Jason is in the Army and gets paid to live off post, we make too much money to live in any of these places. There are only 3 apartment complexes in Lebanon that are not tax restricted... one has no vacancies, one has ONE condo/townhouse that would be available (brand new) in September... but what if it's not done on time, and the other is a pretty shady area of town that we don't want to live in.
We decided to look at duplexes and houses for rent after going through all those hoops at those places. There's a house pretty much around the corner from Jason's Nana that is for rent... PRIVATELY rented, by the way, so we wouldn't have to deal with a rental company, so we decided to give them a call. It's a 2 bedroom, 1 bath with a TON of space (and room enough to convert into two more bedrooms if you really wanted to), granite counters in the kitchen, a HUGE dining area, a large storage area in the back, and fenced backyard for Taco to run around in, and a nice area to park cars... like 4 or 5... or 3-4 and a boat (yes, we have the boat now). We were able to go see the house today because they were having people paint the inside, so we wandered over there, let them know we had talked to the owners and they told us we could look through the house. It's NICE... we like it... a lot. SO... can you guess what I'm going to say??
We're meeting the owner in person tomorrow, talking through all the logistics and whatnot, and if nothing fishy goes on, we'll have a rental house secured for ourselves for the next year... giving us plenty of time to secure good jobs and find our own house after that!
If we get it tomorrow, pictures will be to come so you all can see what I mean about it being nice. We will have to buy a washer and dryer, but hey, we'll need one when we get our own house anyway, so we'll just be starting early. ;)
Now if we can just find ourselves some good jobs!! Wish us luck-- I have a "meeting" with a probation guy on Friday!!!
2 comments:
Best of luck to you both on your housing and job searching this week. This isn't a vacation, it's a business trip! (you had your vacation last week). I was wondering about private "for rent" homes but looks like you thought of that too. Will be anxious to hear how it all turns out.
I was wondering about that--finding a mortgage company that would finance you without immediate future employment...
Also, you can check out CL (if there is one that is active in the area) for private rentals (and you can kind of determine if you are looking at a competitive rate for rent, too). There ought to be a lot of rentals available if the housing market is really slow. (That is what people do around here if they cannot sell their house; they rent it out instead).
Good luck tomorrow at your meeting. Maybe you'll walk out of it with 80% assurance (or better) of a job soon...
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