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Okay!!!!!!!!!! So ... went to San Antonio this weekend to find a place to live. Got off the plane friday and got my rental car, then immediately when to my appointments... had, um, like 6 or 7. It was nuts. Saw some pretty nice places. And some questionable places too. No, I won't pay $950 a month for your stinky, moldy, where's-my-hand-sanitizer house. Nope. But my agent showed me some nice places too. I spent the weekend staying with our friends from here at Ft Rckr. It was so nice to see them again!! They were so nice to put me up for the weekend! (Thanks, guys!)

Anyhow... Saturday morning I got up and met a lady at a house around 10 ish. It didn't have a/c... first drawback. Smelled a little dank... okay, whatever. Then I walked into the kitchen.

Me: "Do you cover extermination?"

Her: "That's the tenants' responsibility."

Me: "Okay, cause there is rat poop all over this kitchen."

Her: "Whoa."

BIG rat poop. Not little mouse poop.... RAT poop.... EVERYWHERE. Ick.... ick ick ick ick ick....

She got on the phone and called to tell them they had an "infestation." Uh, yeah. No thank you. So I followed her to a different listing they managed... yeah. $950 a month for a house with ... bum bum buuuuummmmm.... cockroaches of course. Cute house, bad bugs.... the yucky little brown roaches you can't get rid of. ICK!!!!!! And the back yard had half of the fence knocked down between that yard and the neighbors, who had a lovely yard complete with picnic tables littered with beer bottles and an in ground swimming pool full of moldy dark green water... perfect for my small children to play nearby. Uhhuh. Right...

I left her after that. No thank you.

Then I went and saw a few other places. My primary concern with all of them was my kids. I CAN NOT have my kids playing in yards where the deck is falling in or they have a risk of getting splinters just from breathing out there in the yard. Dangerous stuff. And people expect you to pay for this stuff? Not me.

Now, don't take this the wrong way. I am really looking forward to living in San Antonio, and experiencing the diversity it has to offer. Houston was just a step off point I realize. San Antonio will be much more diversity... One neighborhood smelled like tacos. I'm not kidding.

Okay, so Saturday evening I took advantage of no kids and saw SlumDog Millionaire. SO SAD. Yet sweet. Good flick. Best Picture? Sure! Why not.

Anywho.... Basically by sunday night we had it narrowed down to three choices. One was a stretch, and more than we wanted to spend. Cute house, though. Nice yard. One was very similar to one we rented a while back; 2400 sqft, four bedrooms, loft, two story, big yard. Cute! Plain but cute! (My first choice) And then a 3/2 townhome. Inexpensive, decent area, NO yard to speak of, but SMALL. For us, anyhow. about 1200 sqft. And very reasonable deposit and lease agreement. I wanted the 4/2.5. Bad. It has been on the market for over 140 days and they are wanting to sell it eventually also. And we want to buy. So I liked it! Lots of space! So I called the guy to see if they would consider lowering the rental price from $1050 to $950, or if they would negotiate the application fee since we were military, etc. I took an application over anyways, cause we were really interested. He called me back later and said...

"Hello. I'm not willing to negotiate the price on this house yet. Do you want me to shred your application?"

Um, NO! We still might be interested.

"Okay. I won't waive the application fee for military. I don't do that. I don't know anyone who does."

Other places we have applied have been willing to waive it for us.

"Well, maybe you should go with one of them then."

Okay. Rude McJerkpants. Sheesh. He was SOOO rude. I would have been willing to pay the $1050 for that house, but he was SUCH a world class jerk on the phone. I am still planning on sending them a letter. Gheesh. Seriously. So, needless to say, we went with the townhome. It's a little small, but there's a garage for us to store all our junk in until we either move (fingers crossed that the Hubs gets the counterdrug job) or buy a house.

Right now I'm just glad we have a place to go to. It's not bad. It'll work out. I think though after a month or two of no yard and small spaces, we might be done there. *sigh* I hate not knowing what's gonna happen.

Well, we are just about packed. We are loading the truck on Sat. morning, but we will have the truck here till Tues. so we can add stuff to it as the weekend passes. They will come pick the truck up on Tues and then we have his Ball that night, graduation Wed. morning, check out of the house that afternoon, stay the night in the cabins here on post, then HEAD SOUTH!!!!! WOOOOOOOOhoooooO!!!! I will post pics later!!!