MAHH Part 4

I'll blog about the Mornington trip another time. Wanted to finish all the house hunt blogs in one go.

Tuesday, 13 March

We didn't do any house hunting that day but I did fax our applications through (after encountering some technical difficulties, that is. i'm not very fax proficient, apparently). Managed to fax through all 3 applications by lunch time. (Shut up! It did take me the whole morning but I was in a 2 hour meeting as well!)

Around 2pm, I got a call from the property manager of House #16 and she said our application was approved!! It was good news! Absolutely. The only downside was I COULD NOT REMEMBER THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE AT ALL. We had seen so many houses that Saturday in a very short span of time and the places all got jumbled in my head. The long relaxing weekend did not help things either.

I emailed D but he couldn't remember the place either! No, we're not silly. Not really.

D also said that the agent for House #11 called and asked that we redo our applications and lie about how long we've been in our current employment. He said we should put down 2 years (I've been with NatFoods for 6 months and D with Telstra for about 18 months). Apparently, the owner had issues with employment being too spotty. Which is weird, since both D and I had been with our previous jobs for 3 years. We both decided to pass on the house as we didn't really want to lie.

I told D to call House #16's property manager on Wed and ask whether we could see the place again. D, being D, was able to sweet talk her into showing us the place that afternoon. (This was after we went to look at the house by ourselves on Tue afternoon, knocking on the door to see if the tenants were home [they weren't], and still not remembering the place clearly)

Wednesday

With schedules being tight, I had to take the tram from my office to House #16 to meet D and the property manager there. (Had to bail out on a meeting and do manic work again to be able to get off early. This house hunt was beginning to take its toll.)

The house still looked good but was smaller than we envisioned. It didn't have a dishwasher in the kitchen but we might be able to fit in one in the laundry room. The lounge area was too small to fit in both our sofa and the dining table. The kitchen wasn't big enough to fit in our table (it's huge! 8 seater! don't know why D bought one that big). The 2 rooms were HUGE though. The study was a bit small but it had a backyard and a storage shed. Parking enough for more than 2 cars. The manager said lawn mowing was included in the rent.

We weren't completely sold on the house so we told her we'll call her the next day as we wanted to keep our options open.

We had some more hunting to do.