Apartment update

[thistlechaser]

Today has been one of the most stressful days of my life.

Apartment flooded, have to move out while they repair it. We have to move out "today" (before 8 AM tomorrow). Apartment complex didn't get us the hotel information until this afternoon.

First thing I did was google the name, intending to check the features, make sure it was pet-friendly, all that. The first result was Yelp, so I said hmm I should check that, and did.

An average of ONE STAR. Multiple reviews mentioning bed bugs. (Not to mention it was far away and there was no wifi...) No way I was going to stay there.

Contacted my apartment management. They said I could find my own place, but Apple is having a convention and everywhere else was booked. Sadly they were right about that.

While I was looking for somewhere, anywhere to go, the apartment management canceled my reservation at Bedbug Central, so that wasn't even a fallback option anymore. I didn't want to go there, but it was nice to know I had a place if I couldn't find anything.

Hotel after hotel was either booked or their prices were too high for the complex to cover it. Finally I remembered hamsterwoman had suggested Air B&B and that gonzostar has hosted rooms through it, so I checked the website. Lots of options! But man, getting signed up on that site took jumping through so many hoops! Understandable, but when your time is short...

Ugh. So I found one I liked and booked to check in today, then got an email telling me the host had 24 hours to approve me or not. And I had to be out of my apartment by 8 AM tomorrow, just over 12 hours from now.

Luckily the host responded by the afternoon, accepted me, and off I went to see the place.

It's so nice! A real apartment in a complex, not a room in someone's house. Two bedroom apartment, with kitchen and porch, for about $120 a night (tons of fees and such on that, but I'm not paying, so hey).

It's going to be so odd sleeping in someone else's bed, but it's only (HOPEFULLY) until Friday. My checkout is Friday at 11, and supposedly they're going to be done fixing my apartment on Friday, so... hopefully somehow magically that will work out. Maybe I'll have to bring my cat to work for a couple of hours. Somehow. c.c

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Yeesh, good thing you checked Yelp -- bringing home bedbugs is definitely one thing that would make this whole experience infinitely worse!

I'm glad the AirBnB suggestion worked out! (hopefully you will never have such a need in the future, but some AirBnBs have a feature where you can book them without host approval. I forget what it's called, but there you don't have to wait if it's a short notice thing.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bedbugs are one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to stay in a hotel at all for that reason...

And me too! It seems like a really good idea, especially in the kind of arrangement I found -- space all to myself, not a room in a house. When I realized so many of those listings had you sharing a bathroom... That was almost a dealbreaker!

[hamsterwoman]

I never even bother looking at "shared apartment" or whatever the other options are -- just "private home/apartment". Occasionally this has turned out to mean a private apartment (with a locking door) that is like an in-law apartment in the same house as the hosts live, and in a couple of cases in order to go up to "our" door we had to walk through a shared hall that was part of the host's place. But I would never choose to stay at a place that did not have a bathroom, kitchen, and locked door to ourselves -- way too much togetherness! Fortunately, AirBnB website makes it pretty easy to filter those out.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I was just looking at everything in the area, filtering only to allow pets, so I was getting a lot of those shared space ones -- a room in someone's house, shared bathroom and all. One had a shared kitchen, but the host offered to cook for the person staying. That wouldn't work for me, but I could see some people liking it. I'm with you -- too much togetherness!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

What an ordeal, but glad you found a place in time! I hope the repairs are done as quickly as possible.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Me too, and thanks! I should have some news tomorrow afternoon...

[gonzostar.livejournal.com]

Air bnb for the win!! Pain in the ass situation though. Hope your apartment is fixed quickly.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Me too, thanks! And it was totally for the win. I was surprised how many options there were in the area! Probably 20+ of them in the three towns of this area.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope it works out!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

So far, so good, but we'll know more tomorrow.

[jeane nevarez (from livejournal.com)]

Flooded?! Yikes. Hope none of your belongings were damaged? Glad you got a decent place to stay meanwhile. Is your kitty stressed? Mine have never liked impromptu moves- any moves, actually.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

My cat was stressed to heck and back, but she seems to be settling down now. We're back at home, though everything is half-repaired and a mess. My fridge is in my living room, along with everything else from the kitchen.

I didn't lose much, thankfully! Mostly just a small rug I had kept under the litterbox to try to keep litter from tracking all over the place.