A New Lease, Part 2

There have been some interesting developments since we signed a lease on a new apartment in Ithaca several months ago. It turns out that the people currently living in our erstwhile new apartment didn't actually want to move. While acknowledging that we had a right to force the issue due to the fact that we'd signed a lease, the property managers asked us to look at another unit in the same house. The outcome is that we met them this morning to happily void the old lease and sign a new one.

The new place is on the first floor, so no dragging toddlers up a potentially icy exterior staircase! It's more compactly laid out, with no interior stairs either, and the boys' room is still nicely removed from the main living spaces. It's slightly smaller than our "old new" place, though still significantly larger than our current home, and much of the difference is in items that were somewhat superfluous for us (like a second bathroom). There won't be a dryer hookup (and in fact, a washer hookup is being put in especially to accomodate us), but we don't yet own a dryer anyway. Our laundry situation will be the same as it was in Tucson, which is fine. Moving day will be 8/1, not 7/1, but that just means we don't have to worry about getting out of the final month of our current lease. And while the "old new" place was only barely affordable for us, the new place fits perfectly into our budget.

There's no way we would have even looked at this apartment during our primary home search, because its lack of laundry hookups would have disqualified it. And the landlords wouldn't be so accomodating to us if we didn't have them in a hard place with the lease we'd signed. In all, it's quite the turn of events, and we are feeling very thankful. 

Posted by Matt on 3/08/2006 09:43:00 PM