So. It turns out we have to buy a fridge.

Wait. Let me back up.

With the last ‘Schuberts go house hunting‘ installment, I talked about how with the current house market, we had decided NOT to buy a house this spring, but instead move into a larger apartment for at least a year. Continue to save money, but have a bit more space.

The same day (or maybe the day after) I posted that, we went and looked about about 6 different apartment units (in 4 different buildings).

And it turns out we have to buy a fridge.

That never even *occurred* to me.

The many times we looked at apartments in AZ (3x between the 2 of us) all the units we looked at had fridges. Even the couple places we looked at here in CA last year had fridges.

But this time around Not.A.Single.Unit had a fridge.

hmm…

Just interesting.

I wonder if it’s a regional thing, or?

Also new in apartment hunting? One bedroom apartments as large as about 850 square feet. UnHEARD of when we looked in AZ. In fact, I think the 2bedrooms that I/we lived in were only slightly larger than that.

That was a pleasant surprise, I must say.

So, at the end of that first morning, we had found a unit that we REALLY liked. But wanted to look at some others, just to be sure.

The 2nd morning, our appointment stood us up. Wait. Let me rephrase that. Our appointment at this super trashy apartment complex stood us up.

We took that as a sign.

Around the same time, the manager of the unit we liked called and said she had other people interested in the unit and wanted to give us a chance.

So we went for it.

Moved in (mostly) March 21.

And all week we have been just MARVELING at all the space we have.

It feels quite miraculous!

Andrew keeps saying he feels like we’re on vacation.

So, we know we’ll be here for at least a year (lease) and after that, we’ll see.

We’ve been married 4.5 years, and about 2 of those years we lived in 1 room (first at Andrew’s parents’ house and then at the studio/garage). It feels so luxurious to have more than one room!

want to read more?

• The Schuberts go house hunting (part 5)
• The Schuberts go house hunting (part 17)
• The Schuberts go house hunting (part 16)
• The Schuberts go house hunting (part 15)
• The Schuberts go house hunting (part 14)