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Finally moved into a new place now. Oliver and I were looking for apartments and we found a bunch of dope ones in our price range, but we never got any of them because of stupid things. First place, Oliver found, they were stoked on us, he gave them damage deposit check and everything, I changed my addresses over to this address, then his check bounced because a bill had come off his account automatically, so he didn't have enough afterwards, and because of the N.S.F check no other place would approve him because when they would do the credit check they noticed it. Second place the guy was stoked on us, but when we gave our application to the building owner, he didn't want two tenants in the suite. Third place was the best, huge, new appliances, right downtown, we really wanted it. Oliver applied for it, but then we realized later that night about the N.S.F check situation, so we had to call the landlord back first thing in the morning and make sure she didn't process it, and we would go back and put it in my name, at this point we have driven there atleast 5 times. She said she would do the credit check and call me the next night, but in the end we got no call, she was ignoring our calls, and then we found out she gave it to someone else the night I gave her my application, so lame.
So now it's the 31st, we don't have a place to live, and I need to get all my stuff out of the old place, because the place was trashed, holes in the walls, and everyone has already moved out, except for me... so if the landlord showed up I would have to be explaining (and paying for) a lot of things, so I needed out. TJ let us stay at his old place for the night and we piled our stuff there. Oliver and I went looking for places on Craigslist at the library, but it was closing in 20 minutes, so we wrote down as many numbers as possible and started hunting again. We called all of the numbers except for one and they were all too small, no answer, or something else, but the very last number got through and we checked it out a minute later, since we drove to te apartment before we called. We ask her how many people have applied for the place, and she said nobody because the old tenant moved out two hours ago and didn't give a notice. My credit check wet through on one of the old places (the only one that processed it) so I knew that if we just applied for this place we would get it for sure.
We got a call yesterday morning at 9:30am saying we got approved and that we would have to give her money and get the keys, but Oliver had gone to Richmond to buy a new car (well, old car), he got a blue Firefly. He took 5 hours for some reason, and during that time the landlord at TJ's place showed up (my old landlord) and was furious when he saw all of our stuff piled into the place. He wanted to show the apartment to people and needed to clean the floors and paint the walls, so I had to move everything out asap... by myself. We put it in a storage room downstairs until Oliver came back with his old truck to start taking loads over to the new place, as well as moving TJ and Jen's stuff to their new place. Then I had to work at 3pm, so we were rushing because they took so long getting the car. I paid the landlord her money, got the keys and rushed down to work a bit late, then Oliver and TJ handled the moving of everything from place to place. I got off work but I had to stay longer and take all of the bulk candy off the wall and put it around the store, because we are getting new shelves today, and we needed to clear it out. I'm not surprised I woke up really sore today.
The new place is two buildings from English Bay, my favourite sushi place is on the corner, my bank is right down the road, London Drugs is a few blocks away, so I can get 35mm film developed there, everything is in the area (Davie, Denman, Robson), and I work on Robson so I can bomb a hill to get to work and get home as well, perfect! There's a bus out front that goes straight to the skate plaza, we have a dishwasher, sink garburator, lots of storage space, and we're stealing wireless right now and it's faster then my old internet, and rent is cheaper then all of the other places we had found, I'm so stoked!
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