Moving to a New Apartment

After 18 months, we are finally moving to a new apartment. Finding an apartment that you like and a weekly rent that falls within the budget is hard and the only good thing this time is that we have a car to go to all open house inspections. I told Nat that we should always go to the front of the queue and be the first one to see the unit. In that way, if we’re interested we can fill up the form and be the first one to apply and get higher chances of getting the unit.


Last week, we went to about 5 open house inspections. The last one we saw that afternoon was just a couple of blocks away from our current one although they are already in different suburbs. There were more than 20 home-seekers like us waiting outside to see the unit. We were the 1st one to see the unit so we were the first one to get out, there were still a number of people outside waiting for their turn to get in. Since it was the best unit we saw that day, we rushed to the agent's office and submitted the form together with the requirements and made a deposit.


On Tuesday we got a call from the agent saying that we were successful and we can move in by next week. So I called a removalist, a professional cleaner and informed all utilities servicer of our new address.The removalist costs $60/hr plus $30 travelling time. I hired a professional cleaner for a moving out general cleaning for $250. I also requested to have the new apartment’s carpet steamed clean for an extra $60. Internet and telephone reinstallation would cost $55. And redirecting our mails to the new one, $13.


I can't wait to move to our new apartment. I just hope it's not as maalikabok as our current one. Our current apartment is so maalikabok that even when I wipe the table in the morning, dusty na sya in the afternoon.

I wish I had loads of money so we can just buy a house, its a big hassle finding a good apartment and with all the packing and cleaning! hay!!!!! kakapagod!!! Sayang, if we had the money and a PR status, we could take advantage of the government's first-home buyers grant of $21,000. But with the current prices of houses here, hay! mangangarap na lang ako!