Changes
Well, the people on the third floor are moving. There’s a sign on the door describing their apartment, which is bigger than I thought. It’s a two bedroom for $925, versus our three bedroom for $1050. He told me this past winter that he was planning to move back home to Pennsylvania, so I’ve been expecting this any time. I hope we get someone good up there. Meanwhile, we’ve decided the guy who’s leaving is cool. He has a PETA sticker on the window of his truck: People Eating Tasty Animals, that is. He also has a couple of pro gun stickers. All new, either that or we never noticed them before, but we’re more observant than that.
Anyway, there is also a bright yellow strip at the bottom of the sign that says there’s a three bedroom, first floor apartment at 3 Shaw Ave. for $1250. Intriguing. That is the other place we looked at, on the idea of just in case we’d want it instead. At the time, it had been utterly trashed by a long time tenant and they had a lot of work to do. It was big, similar to this one, but felt smaller and was broken up differently. Parking didn’t look as good either. What we gather from that is they took their time, completely gutted and rebuilt the place, and are only just getting around to renting it. Between the fact that rents seem to have gone up again since we moved (doesn’t seem possible when they’re already out of reach of so many people), it being rendered brand new, it being the first floor, and perhaps a perception that it’s a better location (which makes no sense to me), it’s that much higher. It was clearly a nice apartment even trashed.
The ironic thing is that my brother’s ex and kids lived a few houses from us until they recently moved. Now they live almost as close to that other apartment we looked at.
well, if the benefits outweigh the rent increase....
the captcha is “works”
Posted by caltechgirl on 05/12 at 01:39 PM
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