Well, we went and looked at the places last night. I think that we were just lucky to have found the places that we did the past two times we had to perform "the search". Our homes have been nice and up to date. We looked at several last night at a pretty penny and not really worth the money that they were asking. How can ppl get away with this highway robbery. They know everyone needs a place to live and they gouge the shit out of rent prices until you decide to go $200k in debt on a house that is only worth $150k.
Luckily I know a guy. A guy..let's call him K. K works with me. He lives in Sun Prairie. He drives to work here everyday. He has lived to tell the world about it!!! GO K you drive that big bad beltline!! I spoke with him today and he said the he would me those shopper papers that barrage our homes every week. Also, his wife works for the SP PD she may know of some nice person whom we can rent from.
Let's say it together now..... THANKS K!!!!!
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
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........
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........
Monday, December 06, 2004
I am the MASTER!!!
So this story begins almost 5 years ago. It is the story of my driving. When I learned to drive I was taught on an automatic. I believe simply because there weren't any manual vehicles at my disposal. That and I had no urge to learn how to drive a manual. Well about 5 years ago it was decided by everyone that I should learn how to drive a manual transmission. I decided to hey let's give this a try. I believe part of the reasoning for learning was that my friend Tanya either learning to or teaching someone to drive stick. I figured if my ditzy friend Tonya can master the manual transmission. I should be able to do this.
I went to visit my friend N. up at UW-Stevens Point for the weekend. N had a stick shift. She said to me "Jessica, I can teach you how to drive a stick no problem." So she takes me to a back road in Point and lets me "drive" her car. We jerk our way through Point and she says to take her back to the dorms. So I do having to cross a pretty busy road in the mean time and having to stop and start several times. I surprisingly enough was able to get her car back to the school in one piece.
I was also told to try to learn on my step-dad's old one ton truck that you didn't even have to use the clutch any more. Josh told me that he had never seen a vehicle bounce so much in his life. Do I boycotted learning to drive a manual transmission.
Then Josh bought his Frod Probe GT. That was a NICE car as far as cars go. I decided that hey maybe I should try my hand at this again. It has been a couple years let's give it a try. So Josh took me out to the old K mart parking lot and had me drive try to drive his car. I remember rounding the building a few times. I couldn't really call it driving because I would start out jerking the car or stalling it. Then by a miracle of God I would get the car to start smoothly. I could get maybe into 3rd gear before having to slow down to turn the corner to head around the building again. Somehow I made it into the new K mart parking lot and drove around for a little bit and was convinced I was ready to head out onto the road to drive home. Well actually if I remember correctly we were driving to Hardee's. So I coast through the stop sign and pull out onto 151. Luckily the stop light was green and I didn't have to stop. I remember speeding up to 55 and having Josh scream at me "Shift Dammit you are going to blow my car up!!!!" We got to the stoplight were I had to turn. No traffic again!! I am so lucky!!! I then have to turn left into the Hardee's parking lot and what happened. Bam! a whole long line of traffic shows up and I can no longer coast into Hardee's parking lot. I tried and tried and tried and I couldn't make the car move. I tried to make it go and it wouldn't. I couldn't get the car to move for the life of me. Finally in jerky motion I got the car to cross the centerline and into the parking lot. By this time I was in tears!! Not just tears all out sobbing. I stopped halfway to the drive thru and made Josh take over. I vowed that I would NEVER learn it was just too hard and that I wasn't going to be able to master this EVER!
Well, then Josh bought his Scion. He absolutely had to have a manual. Don't ask me why, he is weird like that. So again I was faced with a dilemma. Should I or shouldn't I try. I didn't want to end up in tears again, so for the past 3 months I have avoided it like the plague. Finally last Sunday (11/28), I said to Josh "Why don't we go and try to teach me to drive stick again?" He agreed and we went to the school. He parked in a parking stall and said here you go. I got and and bam on the first try started going. Stopped and tried again and got it on the first try again. So I continued to drive around Spring Green. I drove home got the dog and drove to my parent's house. In all this time only killing it once. I was pretty proud of myself. I have Mastered the driving of the manual transmission. I am not an expert yet but I will get there some day. I am just happy that I don't get picked on by my family anymore. Woo HOO!!!!
I am the stick master!!!~~
I went to visit my friend N. up at UW-Stevens Point for the weekend. N had a stick shift. She said to me "Jessica, I can teach you how to drive a stick no problem." So she takes me to a back road in Point and lets me "drive" her car. We jerk our way through Point and she says to take her back to the dorms. So I do having to cross a pretty busy road in the mean time and having to stop and start several times. I surprisingly enough was able to get her car back to the school in one piece.
I was also told to try to learn on my step-dad's old one ton truck that you didn't even have to use the clutch any more. Josh told me that he had never seen a vehicle bounce so much in his life. Do I boycotted learning to drive a manual transmission.
Then Josh bought his Frod Probe GT. That was a NICE car as far as cars go. I decided that hey maybe I should try my hand at this again. It has been a couple years let's give it a try. So Josh took me out to the old K mart parking lot and had me drive try to drive his car. I remember rounding the building a few times. I couldn't really call it driving because I would start out jerking the car or stalling it. Then by a miracle of God I would get the car to start smoothly. I could get maybe into 3rd gear before having to slow down to turn the corner to head around the building again. Somehow I made it into the new K mart parking lot and drove around for a little bit and was convinced I was ready to head out onto the road to drive home. Well actually if I remember correctly we were driving to Hardee's. So I coast through the stop sign and pull out onto 151. Luckily the stop light was green and I didn't have to stop. I remember speeding up to 55 and having Josh scream at me "Shift Dammit you are going to blow my car up!!!!" We got to the stoplight were I had to turn. No traffic again!! I am so lucky!!! I then have to turn left into the Hardee's parking lot and what happened. Bam! a whole long line of traffic shows up and I can no longer coast into Hardee's parking lot. I tried and tried and tried and I couldn't make the car move. I tried to make it go and it wouldn't. I couldn't get the car to move for the life of me. Finally in jerky motion I got the car to cross the centerline and into the parking lot. By this time I was in tears!! Not just tears all out sobbing. I stopped halfway to the drive thru and made Josh take over. I vowed that I would NEVER learn it was just too hard and that I wasn't going to be able to master this EVER!
Well, then Josh bought his Scion. He absolutely had to have a manual. Don't ask me why, he is weird like that. So again I was faced with a dilemma. Should I or shouldn't I try. I didn't want to end up in tears again, so for the past 3 months I have avoided it like the plague. Finally last Sunday (11/28), I said to Josh "Why don't we go and try to teach me to drive stick again?" He agreed and we went to the school. He parked in a parking stall and said here you go. I got and and bam on the first try started going. Stopped and tried again and got it on the first try again. So I continued to drive around Spring Green. I drove home got the dog and drove to my parent's house. In all this time only killing it once. I was pretty proud of myself. I have Mastered the driving of the manual transmission. I am not an expert yet but I will get there some day. I am just happy that I don't get picked on by my family anymore. Woo HOO!!!!
I am the stick master!!!~~
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)