Monday, December 3, 2012

Moving with Faith

So me and My new hubby have had quite the trial finding a place to live in Colorado.  I kind of got mad at him for not finding many places.  I really didn't think he was putting in much effort to be honest.  Well now I feel bad.  So I flew out to Denver a couple of weekends ago to give my female approval on some apartments. It turned out to be quite harder than expected.  Everything that we saw online looked fantastic, but then when we arrived at the places to look at them we about died because either A.  the neighborhood was scary B. the apartment was in shambles or C.  The apartment was both A and B!  It was awful.  We finally just narrowed it down to 2 apartments.  The one was in a basement of a house and it was clean and the landlord was awesome (and spoke with a cool Austrailian accent).  But it was in a basement and the neighborhood was not my fav.  There is a seemingly nice Hispanic family that lives upstairs, but I didn't really get to talk to them much.  I wanted to keep looking I don't do well with basement apartments.  So the other one we looked at was awesome!! It had a pool and workout room.  An awesome rec room and huge theater room. I was so excited!  The area looked fantastic and clean also.  Wahoo!  They showed us the room which was tiny but super cute too and bright and happy. Although the hallway looked like something from a horror movie, I chose to ignore that detail.  We decided not to sign up right then even though we were pretty sure we wanted to live there.  When we got in the car we decided to pray about the 2 apartments.  We both felt like either one is just fine.  So we decided on the one with the pool of coarse.  Heck for the same price we might as well.  As we were sitting in the car we noticed the area looked really familiar.  Then we noticed it was! We were only 5 blocks from the other apartment and had no idea.  We figured the Lord wanted us in this area.  As I was thinking about our new apt, I felt like I should check the online reviews of the complex. Man was I in for a surprise!  Out of 26 reviews not one single review was positive.  Everyone was a warning not to move in.  They said they show you a nice apt and the one they give you is awful.  Everything is falling apart and no one will fix things.  Management there is awful.  And.....it says it has tons of cockroaches and bed bugs.  AHHHH! I am terrified of bed bugs.  I read them to my hubby and we looked at each other and said "Prayer answered"  We are taking the other one. We knew that one was clean and good management.  Even if it was basement we can make it our home and invite the spirit better.  I am grateful  for prayer and listening to the prompting to look up the reviews.  I feel good about our decision and hope we can find acceptance in the area.