Houses

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Date: 13 March 2008 18:31:33

Regular readers and friends may remember that I've been trying to make plans to move out for the past 6 months that I've been living here. I think I must have planned and half arranged to live with at least 6 different arrangements of friends in that time, and all of them have fallen through somehow or other. A few weeks ago I decided that I was fed up waiting for other people to sort themselves out, and that I'd look for somewhere myself.

At first I investigated a couple of rooms that I knew that were free through contacts, but the first one wasn't suitable and the second was taken before I got to look at it. So then I started looking on Gumtree. It is full of lists of houses, flats, rooms, etc, available for renting in my area. Earlier this week I fished through them all, emailing and phoning the relevant people. It is a fantastic site. But v.popular. So all the best places get snapped up very quickly. I've been to see a couple more places this week - the first wasn't suitable, but the second is really, really nice. And I really want it. But theres 7 people potentially interested in 2 rooms. The person who is organising it (not the landlady), basically gets to choose who gets to live with her. I think I would get on with her really well, but I don't quite know if she thought the same thing. And she did say that 2 guys had visited the place before me, so if they wanted the rooms then she'd be likely to give it to them, as they were first. So now I'm just hoping that one of them doesn't want it!

The thing about Gumtree is that it all moves so quickly. Its designed for people who need accommodation fast. Both of the places I visited from there were available from next week. So if I was successful with this house, then I'd have to spend next week packing and sort out a moving date around my shifts (and my promised car/van driver). Oh, and this place had unfurnished bedrooms, so I'd need to buy some bedroom furniture. I've been sitting here thinking I would move sometime in the future, for the past 6 months, and now it all seems to be happening very quickly! When I was a student I knew when I would be moving house for months in advance. I could plan. Now I don't even know whether I am moving next week or not. :S