E-mailed Mike (landlord of the 4-unit building in which he also lives that I would really like to rent near UC) and this is what I wrote :
"Hi Mike, sorry to be a bother, but I was just hoping to know if the check for the two application fees arrived and my decision to mail it instead of drive it down was still okay. I imagine it would have arrived yesterday or today at the latest. Let me know if you still haven't received it. Best, Rachel"
He responds:
"U did good. got it yesterday, ran the credit /criminal today. So far so good. Have not deposited check yet. Let me look things over, Get ahold of your Dad and Then I will get back to you in a few days to figure out how to get all the paperwork signed. I would say its looking pretty good for u guys to be moving in. I am planning on it. I am fixing the things we talked about in the apt. over the weekend so it will be ready for the 1st.
Thanks, Mike"
(the things he's fixing are the knob on the AC unit in the living area which works but is stuck in the "high" position and replacing the smoke detectors since he re-painted)
EEEE.
* don't get excited, don't get excited, don't get excited *
And look, this apartment is not perfect and I'm well aware stuff could happen that I don't see now. Bugs, racism, shoddy repair work, other things I can't even fathom right now... but seriously...
Out of like 15 apartments I saw, this was one of TWO that was actually clean and probably not filled with black mold. The other was the apartment that the professor got--the one bedroom in the cute Victorian house on Hosea Ave that he only needs one night a week when he's not staying at his 5,000 square foot golf course home (mrrrr....)
I don't have the best of luck, but I really just want to be done with apartment hunting. I want to move ASAP and move Cori down ASAP as well and start looking for a job. This way, Cori can also get settled nearly a month before he planned, which would be nice, and he can also start looking for a job or maybe even go in-person on campus to see about assistantships. I want to be able to go back to Virginia once or twice before the end of August, and if I can get a place in July, that's a huge burden off my back.
Cori reserved a PODS-like thing for July 14th so I may look into getting my plane ticket changed (and pay the $200 fee... erghhh...) to either July 13th or maybe July 20th if something is available. May actually just call the airline. Also called the ACA hotline and asked about getting insurance changed when it's not open enrollment--sounds like it will be easy to do and the guy said it's not necessary to provide proof of residence (license, voter card, pay stub, etc...) because they just want to make sure I am who I am, and what's the point in getting coverage in an area I'm not in physically ? So I qualify for a 2-month special enrollment and he said since I have an income change, I'll probably get more assistance. I doubt any job I get will pay me enough in the remaining months of 2014 to cause me to have to pay in healthcare tax next year since I haven't worked in 2014 (grr). Basically we assumed I would make the same in 2014 that I did in 2012 and of course, I've made less. Made less in 2013 than I did in 2012, too.
Anyway, I have a tendency to get excited about things and then deflate when they don't go through. Honestly though, Cori and I have good character backgrounds and references and as far as the financial aspect of it goes, Dad will co-sign which will literally negate any issue Mike should have with us not having current employment since I just moved and Cori will have just moved (Dad pulled his credit report and score just to make sure and holy cow, apparently their credit scores vary from 800-830 depending on company--I'd say that's a damn good lease guarantor !! But besides that, mine is something like 780 and Cori's is about the same, so we're still good there). So... I really hope this works out. I'll be kind of devastated if it doesn't.
Please pray/cross your fingers/send good juju/do a happy karma dance for me and Cori.
~Rachel
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