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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 652904" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Well, I got a call back from the one complex I've settled on pending on-site approval. (They have a fantastic digital tour of the various apartments they offer, but I still would want to see the actual apartment I'd be renting, take photos and video before move-in for my records, etc.)</p><p></p><p>I'd asked to be put on a wait-list for a July or August move-in and had messed up the terminology. What I was looking for was a ground level apartment where you have walk-out glass doors onto a patio or terrace. They put me down for a "garden" apartment, which is partially sunken. To me, as a Chicagoan, we don't dress up those apartments: we call them "basement apartments", and that's not what I want at all.</p><p></p><p>So, we got that straightened out to the tune of another 80 dollars a month in rent, plus 40 dollars a month "cat rent" for the two cats. At least I'd finally have a solid excuse for the people who are constantly begging me to take on one or more cats. The complex only allows 2 cats per unit.</p><p></p><p>My monthly income still falls within in their parameters for the higher rent on the "patio" apartment.</p><p></p><p>They come with washer and dryer and glory glory, heat is INCLUDED, which is a huge savings for me, even though its a lot warmer down there than it is up here in the winters and I like a cold house.</p><p></p><p>Complex has walking and jogging trails, community gardens, an outdoor pool, a clubhouse, and sounds absolutely beautiful. Reviews are very good and the people I've spoken to so far in management seem to be very nice.</p><p></p><p>The also have quiet hours from 10PM to 7AM, which is nice, even though I keep very late hours, I listen to music with headphones and may not even have TV.</p><p></p><p>I cracked my mother up. The apartments have dishwashers and garbage disposals, neither of which I have EVER used. My mother has volunteered, if I provide transportation, to come out and teach me how to use them, LOL!</p><p></p><p>I've already volunteered her to help me pick out towels and window treaments wherever I wind up living. I have NO eye for this sort of thing at all. husband did the decorating when he was still alive.</p><p></p><p>So now, mum is getting excited, or will be getting excited once she gets the tooth that she woke up with killing her yanked. So far she's got antibiotics and will have to wait until the infection pipes down before it can be yanked.</p><p></p><p>She could use a little bead rattling. She's got the same "take narcotics and lay down before you fall down" problem that I have, and since she doesn't have anyone availalble to stay with her and is 80 years old and afraid of breaking a hip, she can't take anything stronger than ibuprofen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 652904, member: 1963"] Well, I got a call back from the one complex I've settled on pending on-site approval. (They have a fantastic digital tour of the various apartments they offer, but I still would want to see the actual apartment I'd be renting, take photos and video before move-in for my records, etc.) I'd asked to be put on a wait-list for a July or August move-in and had messed up the terminology. What I was looking for was a ground level apartment where you have walk-out glass doors onto a patio or terrace. They put me down for a "garden" apartment, which is partially sunken. To me, as a Chicagoan, we don't dress up those apartments: we call them "basement apartments", and that's not what I want at all. So, we got that straightened out to the tune of another 80 dollars a month in rent, plus 40 dollars a month "cat rent" for the two cats. At least I'd finally have a solid excuse for the people who are constantly begging me to take on one or more cats. The complex only allows 2 cats per unit. My monthly income still falls within in their parameters for the higher rent on the "patio" apartment. They come with washer and dryer and glory glory, heat is INCLUDED, which is a huge savings for me, even though its a lot warmer down there than it is up here in the winters and I like a cold house. Complex has walking and jogging trails, community gardens, an outdoor pool, a clubhouse, and sounds absolutely beautiful. Reviews are very good and the people I've spoken to so far in management seem to be very nice. The also have quiet hours from 10PM to 7AM, which is nice, even though I keep very late hours, I listen to music with headphones and may not even have TV. I cracked my mother up. The apartments have dishwashers and garbage disposals, neither of which I have EVER used. My mother has volunteered, if I provide transportation, to come out and teach me how to use them, LOL! I've already volunteered her to help me pick out towels and window treaments wherever I wind up living. I have NO eye for this sort of thing at all. husband did the decorating when he was still alive. So now, mum is getting excited, or will be getting excited once she gets the tooth that she woke up with killing her yanked. So far she's got antibiotics and will have to wait until the infection pipes down before it can be yanked. She could use a little bead rattling. She's got the same "take narcotics and lay down before you fall down" problem that I have, and since she doesn't have anyone availalble to stay with her and is 80 years old and afraid of breaking a hip, she can't take anything stronger than ibuprofen. [/QUOTE]
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