We found an apartment!! YEA!

As you may or may not know Matt and I were given the amazing opportunity, back in January after my Grandpa passed away, to live at his house rent-free while it's on the market. Well it hasn't sold yet but this older couple have been looking at it for quite awhile now and we think they will probably buy it any day now. Instead of being homeless we decided to start looking around to see if we could find any apartments closer to our work for good deals and we did! Last Thursday I was looking online and found a 2 bedroom apartment, 1,000 sq ft, for $675 a month including utilities. We thought it was too good to be true (or at least a run down scary apartment in the ghetto of Orem...ya there are ghetto's in Orem!) so we decided to go look at it and we were pleasantly surprised. Here is a picture of the house (the apartment is in the basement to the left). I found this picture on googlemaps so its a little blurry but it's the best I could find...

But ya pretty decent looking home right? We looked at the apartment and for the price it's not half bad! I mean all the apartments we have looked at around Orem for under $700 have been a wee bit scary and for this one we don't have to pay utilities what else could you ask for?! It's 2 bedrooms which is really nice, has large spacious front room and kitchen and it wasn't built back in the 70's (in reference to our old apartment with it's ugly brown tile floor and 70's retro green counter tops and funky laps, and not to mention the bathroom that was inside our bedroom, funk-a-delic) needless to say we are pretty excited about our new place. Also it's really close to work for both of us and close to school, we should be saving a bunch on gas and that's always a good thing! Here is another pic of the house, you can see our entrance kind of behind that tree...

It even has it's own walkway to an area we can park, a nice looking yard that we don't even have to mow, all very good perks! We are signing the papers tonight so looks like we will be pretty busy in the next couple of days, oh the joys of moving! We are really grateful we found this place and hope it works out well for us. Though I wouldn't say we are exactly thrilled we are leaving our comfortable condo in American Fork we are glad we found a nice place to live. It's very bittersweet leaving the house but we feel we have been blessed to find this place!