That is definitely what you want.

Ah crap, now you're gonna get soft and spoiled. :haha:

Picky picky.

That's a great front door. Think you can shoot a staple into the lock? :p:

Oh good Lord!

well alright

Wow!! What good news~!!!

It turns out a little 50s renovated rancher like this rents for the same price as a 2BR condo in a building. I believe that rents for apartment buildings and rental townhouses has risen in this area due to H1B visas. Dey took er jobs!! And den dey took er condos!!

Oh OK

The office room (the "not really a 3rd bedroom" room) has the dumb built-in cabinet, but then they've put in this really funky light fixture.

http://cellar.org/2015/newplace-pic10.jpg

I love this fixture more and more each time I see it. I'm going to ask them if they chose this one. It's hard to find a commercial/residential light fixture like this. The picture doesn't really show its compleat awesomeness.

That dumb built in cabinet will prove to be very useful.

Shoe shelf

The property management lady (my now ex-landlord) APOLOGIZED!

I understand your leaving. It has been virtually unbearable for you and I am sorry. You can go ahead and take the washer and dryer.* The owner is not sure what she is going to do with the house at this point. She may try to sell it. Let me know your forwarding address when you get it. Thanks for being so understanding over the course of your lease. If you need a reference just let me know. I would be happy to give you one.



* I was offering to sell them the W/D because the new place has them. Anyone in the area need a W/D? Does anyone have muscle, a large vehicle, and a hand truck powerful enough to haul a front-load washer up a soggy hillside? Want to scrap them for the money?

so, after aaaaallll that shit, literal and figurative, what **FINALLY** got their attention was the change in their cash flow.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

/sarcasm

Moving.

Everything is so uncertain. Everything is worry. So I wind up Project Managing it like it was my job.

My idea was to move the light stuff myself and with a few friends, and to hire pros to move the heavy stuff.

I mean, part of it is, my friends are getting old. They can't move stuff any more! You figure you have friends that might help you move, but... you don't figure how everyone is now out of shape, partly ill, or has serious injuries.

Moving Company: So it's four rooms to move?
UT: I can give you a complete list of items to move.
MC: Oh! Uh, OK, go ahead.
UT: Upstairs: king size mattress, split box spring, steel frame, heavy headboard, 4 foot wide 3 foot tall hard wood dresser, 4 foot tall 3 foot wide hardwood dresser, average hardwood side table, small wooden file cabinet. First floor: standard non-sleeper sofa, standard loveseat, two foot side table, 75 pound combo bass amplifier*, four 7-foot tall bookshelves, two heavy duty office desks, one with a return, and 20 11x14 boxes. Pre-packaged, taped, labeled, and staged fifteen feet from the truck's landing zone.
MC: Um. Wow. Wow. Uh, okay, our standard package comes at $105 an hour and a two bedroom move is generally four to six hours.
UT: Two hours at the old place would be ideal. My Verizon install window at the new place starts at 1PM.

I was prepared to go another round with her, too (imaginary):

MC: Okay, all this is weather permitting.
UT: The latest models show we'll be a little warmer than last night's news thought. It'll all be rain early in the week. We're fine. I won't even have to load in another bag of salt.

You might figure (very imaginary):

UT: I'll be proving snacks for the movers.
MC: You don't have to --
UT: Yes, M&Ms.
MC: That's very nice of you.
UT: With all the brown ones picked out.

*Normally I would move the bass amp myself, and I did move all the rest of the music gear already. But then I picked up this heavy old beast of an amp, and I thought, for once... for once... let the roadies handle it.

Moving companies are definitely the way to go. I can't believe it took me as many years as it did to realize not just the value of moving companies, but the fact that you could buy boxes for almost no money, instead of trying to harass the grocery store every day for mismatched produce boxes before they broke them down for recycling.