New apartments!

Since it is spring break and audie had yesterday off of work (he's working today until 2) we decided to go to Raleigh and look at some new apartments. We didn't have a lot of time because i babysat until 3:30, but we have an appointment at one place at 4:30 yesterday. We loved to look at the model apartments and see how awesome it would be to move!! So our current lease is up July 6th so we're hoping to move into our new place at the latest on July 1st. But we have to find a new place first. So we're looking for a place in the middle of the area of Raleigh that we'll both be working in next year. our jobs are about 20 minutes apart, so we're hoping for each of us to have only a 10 minutes commute or so. We looked online and found 8 places that fit our budget and seem to be in the right place.

So we went and saw the first place, it was kind of pricey. right now it is on special and that's the only reason it's in our price range. but they don't have any two bedrooms available, which is what we really want. So we don't know if in June when we'll probably move in if it will still be in our price range or if they will have things available. But the lady encouraged us to keep in contact and in Mid May if we contacted them then we could know for sure. Also she told us that they require 30 days notice before moving in, so we have to sign a lease 30 days in advance before we can move in. The apartment we saw was awesome!! Right now we live in a townhouse, and so it was weird to think about living in a regular apartment with neighbors upstairs and down. But it was really, REALLY nice. the bathrooms were huge, and it had really big closets. it had more square footage than we have now and 2 full bedrooms and bathrooms. right now we only have 1.5 bathrooms. it would be very nice to have two so that guests could have their own bathroom.

We were a little worried about how our furniture would fit or not. thought it is a bit bigger than ours, but the dining room was a good bit smaller, and i couldn't tell if the bedrooms were larger or not. So audie went online and downloaded this program to his computer where you can make floor plans and put little furniture in it!! it is so cool!! we can totally make our own little apartment and move around the furniture so that we know where to put our stuff when we get there!! i'm so excited about all the possibilities! I hope we can print out the floorplans so we can compare them and stuff, which i think we can.

So after looking at that first place the other places were closed, but there was one place that isn't open at all on the weekend, which i thought was strange, but that means we don't have the ability to go see them at all for now. But we drove out to see it anyway, to see if we should even concerned about not being able to see it. SO we decided that it was too far away from my work to bother with for now. I was disappointed a bit because it was a duplex, and it was in a neighborhood, like a real house!!! i want a real house really badly, but it was higher on the price range scale and it was too far outside the commute that we want. so we crossed it off the list for sure!!

Ok guys got to go for now so that i can get ready to meet audie, i'm babysitting again tonight so we have to see two apartments before i have to be there.