Gah! After calling last wednesday - although really I should've called the previous Saturday - and setting up the earliest appointment they could arrange for me, which happened to be the following Monday(!!!), I now have internet at home. It took me all of Monday night just to catch up with everything but now I'm able to relax and had a good hour long kanji practice. It took that long because I settled a little issue I had with Bank of America, or rather logging into my online banking with them.
That's pretty much all I really wanted to say so I'll just stop it here but leave you all with a most amusing link:
Body Paint*
*Don't worry, no nudity ;)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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This morning I officially had my application for the apartment denied. This afternoon I officially signed the lease and paid for and got the keys for the apartment. It's been a long day. Now let me go over the journey between the A and B I just disclosed.
It's important to note that the apartment in question is actually different for each statement. The apartment I checked out last Tuesday is the one that I got denied, the one in Palo Alto. The second one is the one in Sunnyvale. After last Tuesday I left the leasing office with high hopes for the apartment I'd seen and had done the application for. It would only be like 2 days before they approved the application and sent me the lease to sign and then I'd be moving in today. On Thursday, however, I call up and they tell me the application was denied. I'm really surprised but apparently it's because I subleased at Park Point and so they didn't have some sort of record of me living there. I told them about my subleasing there and gave them my Crittenden Court address and they said they'd check again and it probably wouldn't be a problem. They told me to call back the next day and so I did.
Ring.... Ring... Ring... And it goes to the answering machine! I tried a few times and eventually left a message to give it some time. Later that day I still hadn't heard back so I figured I'd try again on Saturday. I ended up not calling on Saturday since it was a pretty busy day (see previous post) and a lot of it I spent on the road so I didn't want to use the phone. I tried calling again on Sunday and still couldn't get through so I left another message. I believe it was on monday that they told me their phone system was down all weekend. Figures! Finally, it wasn't until this morning that I got an e-mail back saying my application was denied and that I would be called by a guy to be told why. At this point I wasn't sure what to do but I figured I had to try to find a new apartment somehow. I couldn't bear to try to once more push back my starting date at Tiny Prints so I could only try as hard as I could to find a new place quickly. Coppelia said I should try to appeal the denial somehow when I get a call from the guy. I didn't want to bank on that though and so I got on Rent.com and sent out a bunch of requests. Well I got an e-mail from one of the places before the call came and I called them and set up an appointment for today. Rent.com didn't have pictures of the apartments themselves or even floor plans so I figured I had to go check it out. I eventually got the call from the guy and turns out they hadn't done the second check with the new information yet. The guy said he'd try it out and call me back in a half hour. A half hour passed and he hadn't called yet so I decided to just head down to Sunnyvale and check out the apartment I made an appointment for.
Suffice to say, the call from the guy never came. On the way to Sunnyvale another of the apartments called but I couldn't even see those because they were 'affordable housing', which you don't qualify to live in if your AGI (adjusted gross income), if I'm not mistaken, is higher than a certain number; and mine was. In either case, I got to the apartments with no problem and proceeded to check it out. It was bigger than the one I'd seen with pretty much the same amenities. Only 20 bucks more per month but for almost 200 sq. ft. of extra space!
The landlady was going crazy trying to be at 10 places at once on top of trying to deal with me. There was a bit of hubbub going around in the place because they were installing new toilets on the entire complex. After the little tour, I decide to seize the opportunity and seal the deal. The landlady and I went to the office to go through the application and do all the paper work. After we had it all done she gives me the total I have to pay to finalize the process. I was ready to pay up with a personal check but apparently they don't take them so I have to go to a bank and get a cashier's check or money order. She says that's fine and tells me how to get to a Bank of America.
I get to the bank and realize I don't have enough money in my BoA account to get the money order. I try to take what I need from the Key bank account but it won't let me take out all I need at once and that any more exceeds the maximum I can take out in one day. After trying several things and nothing working out I eventually give up and call the landlady again to tell her I guess I'll just have to come back some other time and pay up and sign the lease. Note this would have to be a day separate from the move in day and I was very unhappy with having to do that. Surprisingly she says the application already got through and the lease is ready for me to sign it. Furthermore, upon hearing that I can't come up with the full deposit she shows an unnatural amount of generosity dropping the deposit's amount to half of what it originally was and saying that would be fine. God's favor for sure! So I happily go back into the bank (for the 3rd time) and get the cashier's check and head back to the apartments. I signed the lease and gave her the deposit and she gave me the keys. Just like that! I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't have to come back for anything before moving. Next time I go back to Sunnyvale to that apartment it'll be with all my stuff :D.
So in less than 24 hours I went from having no apartment and no leads to signing the lease on a completely new apartment and being completely set to move in! And not only that, it's bigger and closer than the one I'd look at previously. Now I'm really excited to move and start my new job. That'll be a whole 'nother adventure to look forward to, I guess.
It's important to note that the apartment in question is actually different for each statement. The apartment I checked out last Tuesday is the one that I got denied, the one in Palo Alto. The second one is the one in Sunnyvale. After last Tuesday I left the leasing office with high hopes for the apartment I'd seen and had done the application for. It would only be like 2 days before they approved the application and sent me the lease to sign and then I'd be moving in today. On Thursday, however, I call up and they tell me the application was denied. I'm really surprised but apparently it's because I subleased at Park Point and so they didn't have some sort of record of me living there. I told them about my subleasing there and gave them my Crittenden Court address and they said they'd check again and it probably wouldn't be a problem. They told me to call back the next day and so I did.
Ring.... Ring... Ring... And it goes to the answering machine! I tried a few times and eventually left a message to give it some time. Later that day I still hadn't heard back so I figured I'd try again on Saturday. I ended up not calling on Saturday since it was a pretty busy day (see previous post) and a lot of it I spent on the road so I didn't want to use the phone. I tried calling again on Sunday and still couldn't get through so I left another message. I believe it was on monday that they told me their phone system was down all weekend. Figures! Finally, it wasn't until this morning that I got an e-mail back saying my application was denied and that I would be called by a guy to be told why. At this point I wasn't sure what to do but I figured I had to try to find a new apartment somehow. I couldn't bear to try to once more push back my starting date at Tiny Prints so I could only try as hard as I could to find a new place quickly. Coppelia said I should try to appeal the denial somehow when I get a call from the guy. I didn't want to bank on that though and so I got on Rent.com and sent out a bunch of requests. Well I got an e-mail from one of the places before the call came and I called them and set up an appointment for today. Rent.com didn't have pictures of the apartments themselves or even floor plans so I figured I had to go check it out. I eventually got the call from the guy and turns out they hadn't done the second check with the new information yet. The guy said he'd try it out and call me back in a half hour. A half hour passed and he hadn't called yet so I decided to just head down to Sunnyvale and check out the apartment I made an appointment for.
Suffice to say, the call from the guy never came. On the way to Sunnyvale another of the apartments called but I couldn't even see those because they were 'affordable housing', which you don't qualify to live in if your AGI (adjusted gross income), if I'm not mistaken, is higher than a certain number; and mine was. In either case, I got to the apartments with no problem and proceeded to check it out. It was bigger than the one I'd seen with pretty much the same amenities. Only 20 bucks more per month but for almost 200 sq. ft. of extra space!
The landlady was going crazy trying to be at 10 places at once on top of trying to deal with me. There was a bit of hubbub going around in the place because they were installing new toilets on the entire complex. After the little tour, I decide to seize the opportunity and seal the deal. The landlady and I went to the office to go through the application and do all the paper work. After we had it all done she gives me the total I have to pay to finalize the process. I was ready to pay up with a personal check but apparently they don't take them so I have to go to a bank and get a cashier's check or money order. She says that's fine and tells me how to get to a Bank of America.
I get to the bank and realize I don't have enough money in my BoA account to get the money order. I try to take what I need from the Key bank account but it won't let me take out all I need at once and that any more exceeds the maximum I can take out in one day. After trying several things and nothing working out I eventually give up and call the landlady again to tell her I guess I'll just have to come back some other time and pay up and sign the lease. Note this would have to be a day separate from the move in day and I was very unhappy with having to do that. Surprisingly she says the application already got through and the lease is ready for me to sign it. Furthermore, upon hearing that I can't come up with the full deposit she shows an unnatural amount of generosity dropping the deposit's amount to half of what it originally was and saying that would be fine. God's favor for sure! So I happily go back into the bank (for the 3rd time) and get the cashier's check and head back to the apartments. I signed the lease and gave her the deposit and she gave me the keys. Just like that! I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't have to come back for anything before moving. Next time I go back to Sunnyvale to that apartment it'll be with all my stuff :D.
So in less than 24 hours I went from having no apartment and no leads to signing the lease on a completely new apartment and being completely set to move in! And not only that, it's bigger and closer than the one I'd look at previously. Now I'm really excited to move and start my new job. That'll be a whole 'nother adventure to look forward to, I guess.
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