Apartment Hunting

We were desperate to find an apartment after discovering the horrific nature of our hotel. Well, I was desperate in the first place, but this just added to the anxiety. I'm afraid I wasn't a very nice person to be around for those first few days in Richmond. We had scoped out all the possible apartments and had it narrowed down to 5 choices. The first one wouldn't even have any apartments available until September. Cross that one off our list.

The second one was about 6 miles from the school, had two bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms, a great kitchen, a washer and dryer, and a good sized front room. The only downside to this was it was kind of in a ghetto area of Richmond and the outside didn't look that great. Plus Jordan was going to be riding his bike to school, and the distance was farther than he wanted.

The third one was about 5 miles from the school, had two bedrooms, one bathroom, a smaller kitchen, a washer and dryer, and a nice front room with tons of storage under the stairs. The only downside to this one was...I liked the second apartment's kitchen better. It was in a great area though, and looked SO cute from the outside. Plus there was a park across the street and a nice pool just down the street.

We went to look at the fourth and fifth options but neither manager was there, so we decided to head back to the hotel and stew things over. We debated about this for an hour, then decided to come see them again. We prayed about it, and decided to sign a year-lease for the third choice. We were so excited!! We chose on the 28th, and moved in on the 29th.