Since I’ve confirmed my new job, it’s time to look for a new apartment. Since I don’t know anyone who lives down in Plano I have to do my searching online. When Lava got her first apartment in Fort Worth we were totally blind. We just went down to the stress where she works, then just started driving around. We ended up at a few places that weren’t too bad, but they were totally out of our price range. We went to one place and got one of those Apartment Locator brochures. That was a Godsend. We simply called up the lady on the number gave her our prefarably address and our price range and in about 20 minutes she called us back with a list. We knocked out a few based on price, a few more based on distance, and actually went to see three and then we made a decision.

Thinking back now, especially after the experience I’m about to describe, we were crazy. I decided to do a lil’ bit of the same. I looked up a few locators gave them my price range and the exact location of my job and waited. I was very disappointed with the results though. I got listings that were over 15 miles away and a lot even above my price range.

So I decided to go with old faithful and go online. I hit Rent.com, put in my address and did a search. This is when I realized that the combination of Plano and my price range didn’t really go together. I upped it by $50.00 printed out a list and went a hunting. I got down there today and went straight to the first place on my list. The list was rather short. Plan B was to do what we did for Lava, and just drive around, yeah right. Plan A backfired badly. Currently, the complex I live in is regarded as cost effective or a pile of crap, or at least that’s what everybody else says. I don’t really have a problem with it, except that the maintenance guys take their precious time and never come to fix stuff when I call. Apart from that I’m fine with it. So, since this is all I know, this has been my benchmark for what I’ve been searching for. I figure I can’t do any worse than what I’ve been living in for the past three years.

I was wrong, oh so wrong. It was hideous; the drawers were falling apart; it was dirty and soiled. And that was the model apartment that they had set up for showing. So we then resorted to Plan B, which involved driving around aimlessly. That was a total wash also. I guess I somehow got lost and ventured into the bad part of town. At one point, although I’d never tell Lava this (I am, after all, her brave rock and pillar), I feared that we were going to get car-jacked.

Plan C magically came to me when I was just about getting fed up. I decided, hey…why not go ask the guys at my new job? Keep that question in mind, the answer is coming up really soon. I went down there and spoke the the HR guy. He rounded up a small crew and they all gave me tons of suggestions. Some were too far so I didn’t even consider those, but the others were real close. I started getting hopeful. I should have known better. We ended up at some extremely beautiful apartments: gated communities, vaulted ceilings, etc. Things were just great. Although I wanted to talk dollars right away; Lava, bless her little soul, wanted to see apartments. After taking a tour of the grounds and being shown the 7 acres, I asked how much. The price was about $100 over my range and they didn’t even have a fitness center. Although I was assured that I would get all my necessary exercise by walking on those 7 acres.

The next one we went to was magnificent. I should have known better, I mean they have a website on which they accept rent payments. That seriously turned me on. As expected it was way out of my price range. Well, that was the last straw. I packed up, wrapped up, and headed home. Yes, empty handed. The plan is to come back down some time later after Christmas.

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