Mission: Housing

This journal is being temporarily repurposed into a house-search log, to aid westrider and I in securing a new living situation. westrider, I expect your comments. madalchemist, when three-bedroom options are considered, your input is also considered. The rest of you, heckele and comment all you want, because I'll find it amusing.

Yesterday I visited a duplex near the Capitol campus in Olympia.


The upper part of this building.

Pros:
Allows cats
three bedrooms
ten/fifteen minute walk to the fishbowl (pub)
RIGHT next to the DASH - Oly's new free weekday downtown bus that makes a loop every 12 minutes.
Nice, approachable landlord who does maintenance himself.
in-house washer'n'dryer.
nice big kitchen.
70's burnt orange contact paper
70's blush colored bath tub

Cons:
Totally funky-shit floorplan - the third bedrooom has a kitchen-type sink and an outside door.
70's burnt orange contact paper
70's blush colored bath tub
smallish windows

Price: $875/month, renter pays all utilities.

( more pictures )

I'll post a floorplan sketch to this space later. For now, off to potential dwelling reconaissance number 2!

Oh, and Peter, if you don't want me doing this publicly for some reason, let me know.

Operation Househunt

Time: 1:11
Weather: Cloudy, high chance of wet.

Peter, I think I may have found it.

On Jefferson, across from the post office, one of a row of places. Bedrooms on the upper story, living areas below.

Pros:
10 minutes walk to Otto's bakery and/or transit station, five minute walk to the Fishbowl
Two living areas - ie, plenty of room for computer/drawing desks and bookshelves
an under-stair closet that would fit my bike
a kinda purple door
not hot on kitties, but he'll allow them with special written agreement, and get this - carpet replacement etc. just comes out of your security deposit, there's no extra pet deposit.

Cons:
Washer and Dryer hookups - no washer'n'dryer.
Jefferson is a fairly busy street, and the master bedroom looks out on it - I didn't think it was too loud, but you should know.
Limited outdoor area - little fenced in patio (big enough for a blarg)!
Master bedroom is bigger, tons of storage, bathroom - in other words, we'll both become drama queens trying to divy rooms, and then one of us will sulk and we'll hate each other for ever! 'Cause that's SO us.


FTP problems, so y'all get pics later.

westrider, this is very promising, so I'm going to call and wake you up.

I hope I didn't spring into this whole apartment hunt thing too soon...we were planning on march or april.

oops.