Unexpected Move

The upstairs neighbors are moving!  That’s a big surprise, as they have been here under a year, and the prior occupants lived there over five years.

We have mixed feelings.  They seem nice and unobtrusive enough.  At the same time, they fairly heavily smoke and it gets into our apartment - downward - severely enough to have made us ponder moving ourselves.  The smoke from the guy downstairs had become pretty minimal, enough to be more or less bearable, but that made it so my office could be unusable at times, and is what makes it so the plague that might have knocked me out for a week lasted a month or so.

We’d love to find a house to rent.  It would have to be big enough for me to close the office I’ve rented for eight years, preferably be in Middleboro, and be otherwise big enough for all of us.  And it would need to be significantly below the combined total for current apartment and office rents; maybe a couple hundred more than this apartment.  Which is $1050 plus utilities, while the office is $801.50 including utilities (which makes the office cheaper, as otherwise they’re similar per square foot).  Indeed, before we eat, buy gas, pay credit cards, or anything like that, we have to have something like $3100 a month net to cover the apartment, office, utilities, and health insurance.  I so wouldn’t mind cutting even $500 from that and being smoke-free, even at the challenge of truly working out of a home office.

But I digress.

Maybe they got a job opportunity that made moving imperative, though it appears they are moving local.  Which means more likely they got a house or a bigger apartment.

Poor landlord.  It was so hard to rent, and now he’ll have to do it again.  At least the sprucing up was done last time and it shouldn’t need much work this time.  I just hope he gets a non-smoker, no offense to my friends who smoke.  I just can’t handle living in it and being low grade sick at all times.

Posted by on 02/24 at 11:44 AM

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