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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 383301" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>OK, I just got back from driving around the neighborhood where the house is- I don't worry at all about the other neighborhood. The house is next to a market/deli so I went in to see what kind of loitering might be going on on a Sat. night. I know it might be worse after 8:30 pm but I didn't want to go that late without checking more into it. Anyway, other than one man standing a while next to a pay phone and one man coming in who was dressed in a way that might appear to be a pimp, everything else looked ok. There is a church/Christian school behind the house. The neighborhood wasn't noisy and I saw parents with young kids walking around their yards or going from car to house. </p><p></p><p>My boss is recommending now that I take my time and not rush. We're exactly opposite now they we were last night. LOL! I did speak to the rep renting out the house again and discussed just what you said MM. She said she should have told me that the first mos rent was free instead of the deposit being waived because our state law says if I need to break a lease and I call and tell her I can't stay in the house for 2 years because I'm losing the job, I would owe her one mos rent but there would be no further recourse as long as I worked with her allowing her to show other people the place.</p><p></p><p>My boss has a unique personality I am finding, and I sure don't want to tick him off and I do think he makes some valid points to weigh. on the other hand, he has made a couple of remarks that lead me to think he is too cut & dry in some ways. For instance, when I brought up that maybe I could find a military person who was past the party stage and living in the barracks to house sit and take care of the dogs when I have to be out of town more than a couple of days, he strongly reacted that it would be just way too risky to trust someone in the military to do that. Now I am a vet and we did that sort of stuff all the time and as long as it was someone past the partying phase, there was no problem. We were grateful to have a break from the barracks and cook in a real kitchen, etc. We did it for free a lot of times just to be able to stay in a real home. I think my boss is either overly-cautious or stereotypes too much- I'm not sure which yet. He had a brief melt-down moment today when his wife suggested something about a sd and he flipped and cursed and said he wouldn't be able to stand it and he's been a teen boy. Let's just say all was quiet for a few mins after that. But he probably had a valid point- he's just very voiceful about it and I'm not sure it's that black & white yet.</p><p></p><p>But I will sleep on it, check the paper tomorrow to see if there's anything else I want to look at. Boss then left a VM that I could get a 2BR place in the neighborhood near the base that he's encouraging me to live in and it is $50 less per mo than the house. This is where we aren't communicating well. If I live in that neighborhood, which is nice but has a bad sd, I need to be able to save enough money to move in less than a year to a different neighborhood so I can't go to the top of my budget for that area. And the move would cost more because I would have started accummulating some things again by then. Maybe it's just still too much culture shock for me to think of going back to a rental situation where it's multi-family and I have to leash walk and have no wife after 16+ years of home ownership. I don't mind doing it for 6 mos but not if every penny I saved has to be spent moving to another place in 6 mos. I figure why bother.</p><p></p><p>It appears on the house that this rep is trying every way she can to help the owner get it rented out. I specualte that this might be an owner who lived in it herself and might be facing mortgage problems so she's trying to rent it out quickly. The realtor said the reason she has had problems trying to get someone to rent it is because it only has one bathroom. Since difficult child won't even be there for the majority of this upcoming year, I don't care about that and that will be the least of our worries once he's released. It's beautiful on the inside and the bedrooms are huge which I think works well for a teen especially if there's no family room. It has a with-D in it so that saves me money. </p><p></p><p>Some people around here are just really nice and bending over backwards to get places rented out. If the rep convinces me that the owner would really be ok with me only staying a year and giving me a break over costs to get in, I will do it unless I see something better tomorrow Monday. I have a carload full of stuff and a storage bin full of stuff 2 hours away and I only want to move it once more in the near future. And my dogs want off the leash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 383301, member: 3699"] OK, I just got back from driving around the neighborhood where the house is- I don't worry at all about the other neighborhood. The house is next to a market/deli so I went in to see what kind of loitering might be going on on a Sat. night. I know it might be worse after 8:30 pm but I didn't want to go that late without checking more into it. Anyway, other than one man standing a while next to a pay phone and one man coming in who was dressed in a way that might appear to be a pimp, everything else looked ok. There is a church/Christian school behind the house. The neighborhood wasn't noisy and I saw parents with young kids walking around their yards or going from car to house. My boss is recommending now that I take my time and not rush. We're exactly opposite now they we were last night. LOL! I did speak to the rep renting out the house again and discussed just what you said MM. She said she should have told me that the first mos rent was free instead of the deposit being waived because our state law says if I need to break a lease and I call and tell her I can't stay in the house for 2 years because I'm losing the job, I would owe her one mos rent but there would be no further recourse as long as I worked with her allowing her to show other people the place. My boss has a unique personality I am finding, and I sure don't want to tick him off and I do think he makes some valid points to weigh. on the other hand, he has made a couple of remarks that lead me to think he is too cut & dry in some ways. For instance, when I brought up that maybe I could find a military person who was past the party stage and living in the barracks to house sit and take care of the dogs when I have to be out of town more than a couple of days, he strongly reacted that it would be just way too risky to trust someone in the military to do that. Now I am a vet and we did that sort of stuff all the time and as long as it was someone past the partying phase, there was no problem. We were grateful to have a break from the barracks and cook in a real kitchen, etc. We did it for free a lot of times just to be able to stay in a real home. I think my boss is either overly-cautious or stereotypes too much- I'm not sure which yet. He had a brief melt-down moment today when his wife suggested something about a sd and he flipped and cursed and said he wouldn't be able to stand it and he's been a teen boy. Let's just say all was quiet for a few mins after that. But he probably had a valid point- he's just very voiceful about it and I'm not sure it's that black & white yet. But I will sleep on it, check the paper tomorrow to see if there's anything else I want to look at. Boss then left a VM that I could get a 2BR place in the neighborhood near the base that he's encouraging me to live in and it is $50 less per mo than the house. This is where we aren't communicating well. If I live in that neighborhood, which is nice but has a bad sd, I need to be able to save enough money to move in less than a year to a different neighborhood so I can't go to the top of my budget for that area. And the move would cost more because I would have started accummulating some things again by then. Maybe it's just still too much culture shock for me to think of going back to a rental situation where it's multi-family and I have to leash walk and have no wife after 16+ years of home ownership. I don't mind doing it for 6 mos but not if every penny I saved has to be spent moving to another place in 6 mos. I figure why bother. It appears on the house that this rep is trying every way she can to help the owner get it rented out. I specualte that this might be an owner who lived in it herself and might be facing mortgage problems so she's trying to rent it out quickly. The realtor said the reason she has had problems trying to get someone to rent it is because it only has one bathroom. Since difficult child won't even be there for the majority of this upcoming year, I don't care about that and that will be the least of our worries once he's released. It's beautiful on the inside and the bedrooms are huge which I think works well for a teen especially if there's no family room. It has a with-D in it so that saves me money. Some people around here are just really nice and bending over backwards to get places rented out. If the rep convinces me that the owner would really be ok with me only staying a year and giving me a break over costs to get in, I will do it unless I see something better tomorrow Monday. I have a carload full of stuff and a storage bin full of stuff 2 hours away and I only want to move it once more in the near future. And my dogs want off the leash. [/QUOTE]
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