Great news: "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance!" Just kidding. Actually, the great news is that a new tenant signed a lease today on the apartment we just left in Grandview. This is good because we moved before it was re-rented and could have feasibly been stuck with paying double-rent until it got rented (since we were technically breaking our lease).
March 29, 2006
March 28, 2006
Non-smokers live here, thank you very much…
There has been one drawback with moving into the new apartment. The landlord and his partner have been in here almost everyday fixing things up, both in our apartment (replacing the fan in the bathroom, for example, which sounded like a small helicopter taking off), and in the unit on the other side. Unfortunately, one of the guys working here is a heavy smoker, and I assume he must be smoking while he works in the other unit or down in the basement (but not actually in our unit). The smell permeates our living space, however, and is driving me a little insane. They really have been great landlords in the past, so we haven't said anything to them, but hopefully they don't have too many more things to work on and our new neighbor (who we've met, and is a non-smoker) will move in soon.
March 25, 2006
Postal Confusion
I suspected that our strange moving pattern might confuse the post office, and I was right. I spent about an hour yesterday with two branches of the postal service trying to untie a forwarding 'knot' that was preventing us from receiving any mail at the new address. Just so you know, if you move twice within six months (the length of time a forwarding order is active), you need to make sure you get the old forwarding order corrected, rather than just add a new forwarding request. On top of that, our mail carrier at the new address thought he was being helpful and when he saw mail for us at #742 he assumed it was a typo for #744 and forwarded it to our Grandview address…which in turn was being forwarded back to #742. My missing Netflix DVDs were delivered today so I think we got it all worked out now.
