Snafu

Justin and I are home safe and sound.  But, I'm sorry to report that our trip was unsuccessful!  Funnily enough we had been talking with someone that our rental agent had found just after we left last month.  The apartment sounded like just what we were looking for and the pictures looked fine.  So we felt confident that if nothing else, we could rent this place and be happy.

We showed up on Monday at 11:30 just like we told them we would.  In typical local fashion, even though we made it very clear that we were coming, they weren't prepared for us.  One employee asked if we could see the apartment after 4:30.  Truthfully, I was totally expecting this.

We've learned through too many hard knocks that things work differently here!

Anyhow, we explained (again) how limited our time is and that we came all this way mainly to see that apartment.  The agent convinced the wife to take her lunch break from work and show us the apartment.  So off we went.  We liked the apartment but wanted to see some other ones, too.

We saw one more apartment with this rental agent and one with another agent.  Then we drove up and down every. single. street. in our desired area to make sure that we weren't missing anything.  Due diligence was done and we called the rental agent to ask to put a contract on the first place.  She agreed to coordinate with the owners and call us back.

We didn't hear from her again that night.

She called first thing in the morning to say that the (owner) husband wasn't really on board with their move and was shocked to find that his wife had found a renter and was ready to get a contract going!  Remember: we've been emailing back and forth for a month!!  Apparently, they had a huge fight, and all bets were off- the apartment was no longer for rent!

Triple boo-hoo!!!

The other two places that we saw were absolutely not what we wanted.  Here we are, a month and a half out from our big move with no contract.  :-(  Our window of convenience has passed!  June will be a crazy month for us and we hope to move in July.  But, we know that the Lord is sovereign.  By closing the door on this place, He was protecting us from something.  So, we will wait and pray- knowing He has a great place for us.