The Pettersen's are moving. We currently live in Avalon Redmond Place where our lease is ending on February 28th. I got our notice on our door that we will need to give them 20 days notice if we are planning on staying or leaving and asked for a forwarding address. Whoops... We weren't planning on looking for an apartment until about two weeks before our lease end. We needed to step up our game a little.
Last Satuday we decided to take some time and go around to our favorite apartments on Bothell Everett Highway. We want to move to Bothell because that is where both of our families, our closest friends and our church are all located. I am more than willing to take the hour commute to be closer to everyone. It's so very worth it in my opinion.
We started at Providence. Too expensive, bad living room set up. Next was Madison Park. "Come back later." Then we went to Parklane Townhouses. BLEGH. Too expensive, too old. Then we went to Avalon RockMeadow which is where my brother and Lynnette live. "Come back later." So, we hung out in the parking lot for a spell before heading back to Madison Park. Now we're getting somewhere! The place was lovely. Just the right size. We were hoping for a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, but they didn't have that available. It was still a little more than we were willing to pay, so we left and hoped for the best at Avalon.
Now, we already live in an Avalon Community and I personally love it. They have been so great to us. We got there, sat down with Terri and talked shop. She had a two bedroom, one bath available now and another available literally the same day as our lease goes up, which was a little more expensive, but looked like our only option. Terri told us about the deal that was going on where you would get $500 off the first month's rent and said that she would be able to do that for us if we got the apartment that was open now. Problem is, we would NOT be able to pay for two apartments in February. Terri left to "see what she could do". She came back after Drew and I talked about options with a kicker. She would extend the deal on the first months rent out to February 11th, with the deal we would only have to pay just over $150 for the month of February. We handed over our security deposit right then. We sign the lease and get the keys on February 11th and as of February 12th we will be living in Bothell!
