A Place to Live

Well, it has been such a fiasco trying to find a place to live. Since arriving in Manly, we have spent nearly 3 weeks trying to secure an apartment. We have applied for numerous studios, one bedders, and even spent a week looking for a 2 bedder which we had arranged to share with another Canadian couple (who backed out on us).

Today, Jeff and I went back to one of the first studios that we saw (seriously, I think we saw it on our first day of looking). Supposedly they had decided to let the apartment go under a 6 month lease rather than the 12 months they had originally demanded.

The place had really been cleaned up (the last tenants, whom were living there during our last viewing were slobs). We waited around until the other apartment viewer had left before talking to the realtor, Brad, about what we now had to offer on our application (local references, bank statements, jobs, previous residence references, etc.)

Basically he asked us when we wanted to move in. It was painfully simple.

So, now we finally have a place to live!
Jeff's parents are transferring money from our account to Australia (we can't take out large amounts from the machines), and we're moving in sometime in the next few days!

It seems kind of surreal.