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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2009-06-01 11:02 am

wherein Liz has a new apartment!

I have a new place to live! Okay, so I haven't signed the lease yet -- that's for tomorrow morning -- but I have a verbal agreement with my new landlord, which means the rest is technicalities.

This apartment is one of four in a building near Fall Creek Cinema, which means it is only one block from the Fall Creek laundromat, about a ten minute walk from the P&C grocery store, and maybe a twenty-five minute walk to the Commons. It's on the ground floor, with a private entrance and small deck/porch at the back of the house. Inside, it has a large kitchen with a breakfast nook, a large bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, and two other smallish rooms that can be repurposed as necessary. (One will become my computer room; the other will be some combination of library and guest room.) Some rooms are carpeted, but the living room has a hardwood floor that I will probably cover with area rugs, as I did for my current apartment.

The plan is for my parents to come up on Friday the 12th, rent a truck, load it, and hopefully leave it in Mr. and Mrs. B's driveway overnight. Then we unload my furniture and stuff into my new place on Saturday the 13th. So I will be paying a pro-rated June rent on the new place, because I won't be living there for the whole month. Then I will use the next week or so to finish sorting and moving the small stuff out of my current apartment, and cleaning it within an inch of its life.

I think I shouldn't have to pay June rent on my current apartment, since I paid the standard last month's rent when I moved in. I also need to talk to Mr. and Mrs. B about getting my damage deposit back when I move out. Unfortunately, I have misplaced my copy of my 2005-2006 lease, so I am trying to reconstruct these transactions from my checkbook registers. *frown* (Clearly, I need to be more organized about important paperwork. Which reminds me, I need to create a folder for my dental bills and related documents. Bother.)

But anyway, details schmetails. I have a new apartment! I will not be homeless in July!

*dances*

[identity profile] willowgreen.livejournal.com 2009-06-01 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! That's a pretty area, though a little far from downtown.

I used to use the Fall Creek Laundromat when I lived on Yates St.--in fact, I first injured my back carrying about a ton of laundry there in two suitcases and a backpack. Ah, memories.

[identity profile] annearchy.livejournal.com 2009-06-01 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!!! You must be relieved :)

[identity profile] ladyofshallnot.livejournal.com 2009-06-01 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats. :D Sounds like a nice place.

...there's a P&C in Ithaca? We're keeping track of the chain's slow and painful death.

[identity profile] ladyofshallnot.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Aha. The one in the town near us (good ole Clyde) closed, and so did the one in...Seneca Falls, maybe? One of the others. Ithaca is the last bastion of the P&C!

When I was there for school last summer, I mostly stalked the Wegmans and the small grocery stores near Cornell's campus. And ate out a lot. Because nom Japanese curry.

[identity profile] smokyglass.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! I'm glad you managed to find a new place!