Frustration

Phil and I went Friday to look at the apartment we found that we really liked and also had a nice handicap accessible apartment available. Once we got there, though, the woman that I spoke to over the phone, who quoted me her move-in price, brought out a cost sheet full of other hidden deposit and administrative fees that she never told me about. To move into this place, it would require us to basically have to pay a months rent twice, plus more. And she wouldn't show us the place until we put down money for the non-refundable admin. fee and application fee. It was ridiculous. We could have ended up hating the place and been out $218 from the start. So our search continues. We spent yesterday morning calling around several different complexes, getting prices and such, and drove around yesterday while running errands seeing different places and the neighborhoods they are in. So this week my job is to call as many places as I can, get prices and all move in costs, and then from there, Saturday will be the day we visit the places we like the best, and then hopefully put in an application at the best one.

So I was pretty bummed, and frustrated, to say the least, this weekend. I really wanted to get into this place, and was upset that when I had asked the women for all the possible fees, she assured me all we had to pay to move in was $218 and then the first month and a half was free. Once we get in there, the whole story changed. It was almost as thought she just figured we were going to want the place that bad, that we'd do anything to get in, including plunking down hundreds of dollars. Of course, I am fully aware that moving into an apartment is going to cost some money, but this place was just outrageous. I have no doubt that we are going to find a place just as nice, with an affordable move in, but I was really hoping on that place, because it seemed so perfect with the handicap accessibility. But other complexes have the same thing, and I have to realize that when it comes to finding a place to live, sometimes it is going to take a lot of legwork. In the end though, once we get moved in somewhere and have a place to call our own, this will all be worth it.