The Hunt Begins

This afternoon and evening we will voyage to the city of Sun Prairie and look for places to live. The thing that is really troublesome to me is that rent is $100-200 more per month. Now Josh is getting a raise with this change of job and I know I can expect one in the next 4-5 months. We aren't living paycheck to paycheck most of the time. I am just worried that we will have to start that. The saddest part is our extra cash time of the month is in the middle of the month. We have to teach ourselves not to say "oh we have extra money lets spend it", but to teach ourselves to think "We better put this money away for next month, or put it into savings for the house."

Jackson had me up at 4am this morning. So I spent a good 1/2 hour worrying about money. We have to take money from our savings for the first month's rent and security deposit. On top of that it appears that we are going to have to pay for our place in Sun Prairie until it gets rented. Josh spoke to our landlord last night and he in not so many words affirmed that. He said that he have 2 other units empty( a 1 car garage/2 br and a 2 car garage/3br(I think)). One a little old lady was placed in an assisted living facility, and the other right next door to us the people moved out and never told him. He came back from vacation and they were GONE! I would be pissed. The promising news is that he has had several calls on the other places, so if two people are interested in the same unit he can say "hey if you want to wait just a little bit longer we have one opening up in February. "

Now you may ask yourselves this question: "Wal-Mart is moving him why don't they pay out the lease?" The answer is this: Wal-Mart has a form for a landlord to sign, the form says something to the effect of this: "Wal-Mart may move it's associates at short notice and a lease may need to be terminated. Do you agree to end the lease outright(not sure if that is the right word)? Check yes or no below." If the landlord checks yes then lease ended with 30 day notice and boom you are out. If he checks no then Wal-Mart will pay out the rest of the lease. If we had known this for existed we would have had the land lord sign it. Since we didn't we will have to suffer. It isn't Wal-Mart's fault it is our own.

I will keep you posted as to what we find tonight........