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letter I sent to friends and family
Apr. 20th, 1996 10:01 pmToday (24 June 2018) I asked Khevron if he could remember which month it was that I first moved in with him, so he checked some really old files on his computer and found the below letter and sent it to me, so I am posting it here, with the original date as the posting date.
I finally found a place to move to!
I had been worried because May is rapidly approaching, and I need to get out of the Student Apartment complex by early May. We had been looking in the paper for a three bedroom place (for Ron, Khevron and I), preferably a house. I didn’t want to be in an apartment. We did look at a couple which we liked, but lost out to whomever saw it just before we did.
Due to the lack of reasonably priced (or any-at-all for that matter) three bedroom houses in the paper I finally broke down and started calling the apartment complexes and condos advertised for rent. That must have been good enough for my karma, because after getting back from a Friday morning appointment to look at an apartment (good location, nice enough rooms, but most bedroom-closets are larger than the kitchen there) we checked the paper again, and found a 3/4 bedroom advertised.
Calling the number, the guy was surprised to hear from us--he didn’t expect the ad to show up until Sunday! At last--we were the first callers! So we went straight out to look at it. It is located between North Pole and Fairbanks--about 13 miles from campus. One minus. The neighborhood didn’t look very promising--lots of _small_ run-down houses and a couple of trailers--all fairly close together. Another minus. The house is red and mostly fills its lot--which is completely bare of trees. A third minus.
But wait--as you open the front door you see coat hooks. One small plus. The house used to be a duplex, and was re-molded into a single-family dwelling. _Two_ completely separate living rooms--with a coat closet in each in addition to the previously mentioned coat hooks. Another plus. A big kitchen. With a PANTRY!!!!!!! Two very big pluses! A large, cool crawl space under the house for more storage. One bedroom and bathroom on the north side of the house. View out the back of the neighbor’s trees (this will be my room). More pluses. Two more bedrooms, a bathroom, and a tile-floor room open to the living-room on the other side of the house. Putting up shelves as walls will make that a fourth bedroom, so we can add a fourth to our number and make rent cheaper. There are even two washer-dryer hook-ups to chose from. And did I mention the pantry?! I haven’t had a pantry since 1986, I miss having one. They are in the process of re-painting the whole place and putting in all new tile on the floors. The carpet looks new too. I’m convinced.
Joe, the owner can see how excited I am about the house. By this time I have forgotten all of the minuses on the drive in. He explains that he owns the place and is looking for someone who will take care if it. He lives in California with his CPA wife, and can’t make it back up here that often, so he wants responsible tenants. If it were up to him, he would rent to me on the spot, but we need to get rental applications from his wife--do we have a fax? Yes, we do have access to one. We got home, got the fax, sent her back the applications and called Bryan, one of Khevron’s friends--did he want to move in with us if we get the place? He goes to look at it and decides, that yes, he’d be happy living there. While he is there Joe tells him that his wife says it’s a go. So I head back out there to give him a deposit.
Finally, a home selected--and still eleven days to spare until the first of the Month!
I finally found a place to move to!
I had been worried because May is rapidly approaching, and I need to get out of the Student Apartment complex by early May. We had been looking in the paper for a three bedroom place (for Ron, Khevron and I), preferably a house. I didn’t want to be in an apartment. We did look at a couple which we liked, but lost out to whomever saw it just before we did.
Due to the lack of reasonably priced (or any-at-all for that matter) three bedroom houses in the paper I finally broke down and started calling the apartment complexes and condos advertised for rent. That must have been good enough for my karma, because after getting back from a Friday morning appointment to look at an apartment (good location, nice enough rooms, but most bedroom-closets are larger than the kitchen there) we checked the paper again, and found a 3/4 bedroom advertised.
Calling the number, the guy was surprised to hear from us--he didn’t expect the ad to show up until Sunday! At last--we were the first callers! So we went straight out to look at it. It is located between North Pole and Fairbanks--about 13 miles from campus. One minus. The neighborhood didn’t look very promising--lots of _small_ run-down houses and a couple of trailers--all fairly close together. Another minus. The house is red and mostly fills its lot--which is completely bare of trees. A third minus.
But wait--as you open the front door you see coat hooks. One small plus. The house used to be a duplex, and was re-molded into a single-family dwelling. _Two_ completely separate living rooms--with a coat closet in each in addition to the previously mentioned coat hooks. Another plus. A big kitchen. With a PANTRY!!!!!!! Two very big pluses! A large, cool crawl space under the house for more storage. One bedroom and bathroom on the north side of the house. View out the back of the neighbor’s trees (this will be my room). More pluses. Two more bedrooms, a bathroom, and a tile-floor room open to the living-room on the other side of the house. Putting up shelves as walls will make that a fourth bedroom, so we can add a fourth to our number and make rent cheaper. There are even two washer-dryer hook-ups to chose from. And did I mention the pantry?! I haven’t had a pantry since 1986, I miss having one. They are in the process of re-painting the whole place and putting in all new tile on the floors. The carpet looks new too. I’m convinced.
Joe, the owner can see how excited I am about the house. By this time I have forgotten all of the minuses on the drive in. He explains that he owns the place and is looking for someone who will take care if it. He lives in California with his CPA wife, and can’t make it back up here that often, so he wants responsible tenants. If it were up to him, he would rent to me on the spot, but we need to get rental applications from his wife--do we have a fax? Yes, we do have access to one. We got home, got the fax, sent her back the applications and called Bryan, one of Khevron’s friends--did he want to move in with us if we get the place? He goes to look at it and decides, that yes, he’d be happy living there. While he is there Joe tells him that his wife says it’s a go. So I head back out there to give him a deposit.
Finally, a home selected--and still eleven days to spare until the first of the Month!