Found New Home in Kentucky

Melissa was very kind to volunteer to accompany me to Louisville to look for a new home for me... She came Friday after work.  Then we had dinner at Mazah Mediterranean Eatery (which is inexpensive, quick, and delicious!).  Then we made it just in time to watch Five Year Engagement which was a wonderfully cute and meaningful movie!  It reminded me how important it is not to lose yourself and give yourself up in a relationship because life would be unhappy and you'd resent the other person.

Woke up at 6-ish AM. Woke Melissa up at around 6:30 AM.  We had breakfast, got ready, repacked... I moved my roomie's car from the front of the garage (...really?) and then we hit the road at around 7:30AM.

We managed to have beauuutiful weather! it sprinkled occasionally as we practically followed the rain but it was primarily just overcast.  Good temperature, no real rain... it was a very nice drive with little traffic.  Did stop about 20 minutes out of Louisville because I was running low on fuel (thanks to my tiny ~10gallon tank, lol) and had to pee.  Very old gas-pump, even at a BP. I had trouble reading the screen as it was just a bunch of scrolling dots.

Got to Louisville at 11AM and arrived at our first apartment complex next to a mall.  From online the apartments looked like they would be beautiful and give my current complex, The Quarry, a run for its money (literally) but no... it was a hack job.  The apartment buildings had really random vinyl siding colorations.  For example... a building is supposed to be light blue but some of the siding fell off at some point perhaps... instead of replacing it with light blue it could be yellow, gray, green, cream... It's like they just threw it on at night or they are color blind.  Paint job was pretty bad.  Kitchen cabinets were ugly. Bathroom was just tolerable. And they were asking for $850 for a 1b1b. Really? It's not the cost... It's what you get for the cost.  I'd be perfectly willing to pay that much for something like the quarry... not something I could do a better job of myself. Hack job. Also, it had a really tiny pool.... smaller than our "mini" pool here at the Quarry.

Then we had lunch at the mall. We got very disoriented as there were no real patterns/logic to parking lot placement... so we had trouble figuring out where food was.  Managed to find a Qdoba.

Then we went to destination 2.  It was pretty great. The clubhouse - GORGEOUS. SO HUGE! It has nice pool, outdoor kitchen, table tennis, pool, grand piano, nice loungy chairs, yoga/pilates room, nice workout center... overall, I have never seen such a nice leasing office/club house.  And there are two tennis courts :-D. Oh, and a car wash area!!! and no doggie size restrictions!!!   Melissa and I were impressed especially with the professional presentation of the management staff.

The apartment units themselves are ok. Definitely no Quarry but I've come to conclude that such a place does not even exist in that city... if it does, I cannot find it and I am a pretty resourceful person.  IF it does exist I am not paying like 1k for a one bedroom.  I managed to find a first floor, overlooking a courtyard, decent parking, may be able to get a car port, BAY WINDOW! SO EXCITED ABOUT BAY WINDOW ! (i have always wanted one).  The size of the apartment is decent as is the kitchen. Bedroom is smaller and the bathroom is half the size of my current one but I realize my current bathroom is just ridiculously large.  FOr the price (less than 800) I am very happy with the location and the apartment itself.  The money I save I can put towards other things! ie, shopping, cable TV, paying off things faster, eating out, fun stuff, etc.

Above is the layout of my new home.


Then we saw another apartment complex. It was very nice but I didn't love it more than the second one and they wanted $100 more.  I really wanted to love this one though.  But it wasn't as much as I had hoped in terms of what they had to offer.

The whole rental market is really saturated right now so I am pleased to at least find something I like in ONE DAY because Louisville is a bit far for me to continue visiting... especially since I primarily live in Columbus.  I am looking forward to completing the move even though I will miss Columbus, my friends, and my apartment so-so-so much...But I will get over it... just as I will eventually get over the general disregard to traffic amongst the residents of Louisville.  Driving to and from work will be quite a challenge.  My tiny car gets bullied too.  I'm gonna have to learn to be more aggressive//skilled. Oh boy.

Looking forward to making my new home home-y! I just wish my job would hurry up n finish my background check n give me my itinerary because I am getting anxious! as usual.

I found a home! there and back (3.5 hours there), 3 apartment complexes, lunch and coffee, decide and apply for new apartment... in 12 hours. I'd say that is pretty impressive.