We Got One!

This past weekend, T and I went apartment hunting. Seeing as he hasn't started work yet, he went up to the city a week before me to get all the heavy looking finished. His goal was to look at as many apartments as possible in 5 days, pick out 4 that were his favorite and he knew I would love and would fit all of the requirements.

My requirements for an apartment weren't too much to ask: Doorman, Gym, Dishwasher and full refrigerator. Well, these requests didn't sound too difficult in my southern mentality. The building we live in now has a pool gated parking, full gym and 2 showers in my bathroom alone..and of course a dishwasher.. Well... As we all know, New York is a different animal- and a different ball game all together. And apparently dishwashers are not a staple for every apartment in New York.

Well, there is one thing about T that I love, his determination. If it were just up to me, I would have sucked it up, hired a broker and take the easy way out- had someone else do the heavy lifting- but not him. No way jose, he was going to find our apartment all on his own, with no help. He didn't want help for 3 reasons: 1) He likes to do things on his own and 2) he didn't want to pay 2 months rent to a broker- why pay someone else for something he thought he could do all on his own 3) he is stubborn- stubborn as a bull.

He had his work cut out for him. He went back and fourth- uptown to downtown, east side to west side, and even across the river to Brooklyn.  All he knew was my flight landed Thursday night and he wanted to have apartments to show me by Friday, so he worked towards that deadline. I got phone calls from him at work that would sound something like this, "Well, I just saw an apartment with half a refrigerator" or, "How do you feel about not having a stove" or my personal favorite, "How important is a dishwasher to you?" To every one of these phone calls all I said was, "Its not the one, keep on trucking, when you find it, you'll know."

And, I learned something about him that I love- when you give him a task, no matter what it is- he will do it, and do it in its entirety. He is one determined man.  Not only did he find us an AMAZING apartment, with all of my requirements, but it is below our budget, in an amazing area, and is just the right size for the both of us- compared to the apartment we are in now, yes its smaller, but were in New York, everything is smaller there. And he found it on Tuesday- only 1 and a half days into his search. All the stars aligned, and it was perfect.

He showed it to me on Friday, for about  5 minutes during my lunch break (I was working out of the New York office for the day) and we signed the one year lease that afternoon.

So its official, in about 4 weeks, T and I will be moving into out apartment- finally our own apartment together. Now were on the next task... how to ship all our furniture up... The next few weeks should be interesting to say the least.

Stay tuned... I can guarantee you it will be nothing short of a comedy show.

Peace, Love and never stop moving,
B