The details of the move down to Florida are getting more and more complicated. I will be renting a local U-Haul here in Connecticut and using it to transport all of my stuff twenty miles north to Stratford, where the stuff will then be loaded onto the front of a commercial semi to make it's way down to Florida. Two weeks from tomorrow, Elise and I are leaving. Once in Florida, we'll be renting ANOTHER local U-Haul to pick up our stuff at the truck depot.
The stuff will probably arrive early, because I have to have it trucked a full seven days before our original move-in date, due to the stupid Labor Day weekend.
Because of this, I called the apartment complex or private residencies complex or condominiums or whatever they are and tried to weasel my way in at an earlier date.
She pushed it to 5pm on the 9th, which is better than the 10th at least. Then she explained why she couldn't do better than that.
You see, they're installing all new appliances in our kitchen. STAINLESS STEEL appliances. Brand new, stainless steel stove, fridge and microwave.
So who can argue with that? I couldn't be happier. Except... if that isn't the kiss of condo death, I don't know what is. You don't replace everything in the kitchen with stainless steel when you have a tenant excited, ready and willing to move in and start paying you for what is already there. You replace that shit to SELL the place.
I'm going to enjoy my year while it lasts and if I really do love this place, I'm going to try my best to pressure them into another lease, but who knows?
The website for the sale of these condos just added a page for reserving a unit. You can see detail on every single unit in the place, including mine. All of the ones in my building are marked "reserved", save one that is available and another--MINE--that says, "Event Registration"-----
I tried to write them an anonymous question on their contact form, as to what that means, but their site doesn't work--which is a good thing. To me, EVENT REGISTRATION means an open house where prospective buyers come to see the place first hand at... an event! When would such an event happen? Perhaps in the nine vacant days that this apartment needs to install three kitchen appliances. Wouldn't surprise me. There is only one other apartment in my building with the same asking price, the highest asking price. What I'm saying is... my apartment is the one to show off.
And according to the site--it's selling for $273,500. For a one bedroom apartment! At least that will keep buyers away! No wonder they're wheeling in the steel. With no down payment and a seven percent interest rate, a thirty year mortgage on my 1 bedroom apartment will run $1819 a month. I'm paying $890 to rent the damn place.
So, yes, I'll enjoy this next year very, very much. Then, maybe the year after. Either that or I'll be living in a hot air balloon dropping darts onto the management's heads.
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