the story i find myself in

so on friday we got up super early so that we could actually be walking into an apt at 9am when they opened, so we could see all 67685758309345 apts that we had planned for the day. this day we were super organized, had all the apts sectioned off by location, i know-big thinker now, so we first headed out to the beltline and six forks, saw a few places, but nothing spectacular. then over towards falls of the neuse/atlantic area and we went in this place called, the barrington, that was rad!! amanda loved it, but it was right at our cut off for price, so we documented it, but thought it was still a little too expensive. after that area, we headed out to the creedmoor area, and went in a bunch of places around lake lynn. at every area we went to, we had the pre-planned apts to see but always saw others around. so we went in one place by lake lynn and upon leaving we saw the entrance to Cumberland Cove. we had this crazy lady pam take us around the complex, and i absolutely fell in love with the Dover apt, and they were running a special that had a 2 bed, 2 bath 1200 or so sq ft for $100 less than usual! so if we really wanted this place we would have to put money down on it on saturday. so we documented it and kept on going...the day was coming to an end, but amanda was flipping through the book and saw this place called Strickland Farms (a big shout out to my dogg kelly) and we headed out that way. at first, i was thinking man, this place is kinda far, but after driving in the next day and talking with others, it really isnt that bad, and i actually like being out a little ways...the road it is on feels kinda 'country' so that is great. anyways, we make our way into the office and phil, the coolest apt worker we've met yet, starts talking to us about floor plans. well all he has to say is 1 bedroom 'with loft' and amanda's eyes gut HUGE and she is like 'lets go see it!!' so we make our way to the apt and it is everything she has dreamed of!! it is about 1200 sq ft and has an amazing living room with 24 foot vaulted ceilings! yes!! so we make the tour and fall in love. (it wont take me until sat am to fall in love, but i do and i think we will be moving their in july/aug!) the coolest thing about it was phil, he is going to waive all of the application fees, admin fees and such and then they dont cash the deposit check until we move in!! yes!!! so on sat we woke, headed out to Strickland Farms one last time before amanda left, and they just let us go look around the place, so i had my camera with me and we snapped some photos! i will post them soon. after loving it again, we decided to finish the application and i will be putting down the deposit this week! after the photo shoot, i took amanda to franklin st in chapel hill and we walked all around, going in the cool cd stores there. the next event in our day was to finish registering, check out our story to see the details. so then it was back home to spend the final evening together...or so we thought... check out her blog for the adventerous morning we had, how she was able to stay and extra day, and fly first class home. what a story!

Posted by ashdown on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 at 4/05/2005 09:41:00 AM | Permalink