Just got a letter from my apartment complex: As of May, when my lease is up, my rent will be going up only $50 per month if I choose to renew. Thank god! Even working temp at lower wages, I can somehow come up with this rent. (I was nervous that the rent would be hiked up by $100 or more.)
Sans job, and with FIVE CATS (the last, Cinco, still feral and uncatchable), I was IN NO WAY prepared to move. No money for new deposits (apartment and pet), no money for movers. Absolutely dreading the thought of how to wrangle my five cats into one room with a shut door while the movers worked. (I'd thought: Well, pack up all of the books in my study, move all of the shelves and chair and desk out into another room by myself, keep the cats in the study, buy 3 more carrying cases, what the hell to do with Cinco...)
But with only a $50 increase per month, I'm definitely staying put. It's an overall quiet complex; I have 1200 sq ft for $1300 (then $1350) per month (way below the current Austin market price), which is a perfect size for both me and the cats; the laundry room is only about 20 feet from my apartment (an easy walk carrying my laundry bag); there's a pool also about 20 feet from my apartment (but with a block of apartments between me and the pool, so I don't have to hear most of the festivities in summer months)---and I love swimming/sunning.
Wherever I end up working permanently may not be within a 10-minute drive from my apartment, like my old job, but my apartment is very close to 183 and MoPac; if I have to end up driving for an hour, at least I can quickly get on the pipelines.
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