House Hunting: Day 1
Today was really not a very good day to be doing this. At the moment, my fingers are still sufficiently numb that I can't type properly and it has already been at least 15 minutes since I got back to res although it could have been a lot worse had it not been for my new wool gloves. Thanks so much Hong for those!! Without them, I think my fingers would have gotten so badly frostbitten that I would have had to cut them off. ewww....I'm so glad that didn't happen!
So anyway, here is an update on the house situation. Currently, we have a group of 5 asian girls down from the original 6. Terri decided to back out because she thought six people living together was a little much. Terri's a really nice girl so it's quite a shame. =( That leaves us now with Viv, Emily, Chloe, Karen and myself. We're generally a nice group of girls...quiet, not party animals, tidy, hmm...actually I don't know about Bibs...she'll make you stand outside her door for 10 minutes before she'll even let you in so she can tidy up! So basically, you can say that we're a landlord's dream come true. At least that the impression I hope we gave to Daphne Dean today. She's one of those landlords who is notorious throughout the Queen's campus for being very strict with her tenants. Before we were even allowed to step forth inside one of her precious houses, she already laid down all the ground rules. No parties, no pets, no painting of the walls and no more than 4 guests after 9 pm but I'm pretty sure there were many more to that since I could hardly hear anything from the back of the crowd. And how does she know how many people you have in your house after 9?? Easy. She counts the number of shoes at the door when she goes around to do her regular house inspections. Talk about strict!!
But despite all that, her houses were definitely very impressive aside from 2 or 3 that I found not as nice but still decent. The 2 good ones had a good layout, very spacious, cheery bedrooms and large friendly kitchen with living room attached. As I'm getting to see more and more houses, I'm beginning to not mind very much the idea of getting a house instead of an apartment which is what our focus started out on. With so many people living together, an apartment will mostly probably be too small and leave us each with no personal space. AHH...I don't want everyone pissed of all each other only after the first week! Anyway...all we have to do now is go look at these houses a few more times because that is the only way she will even consider taking you in. It isn't until after the second visit that she'll even let you fill in an application! crazy, crazy lady...but nice houses I'll give her that!
One more house to see tonight...probably going to get Jason to tag along to protect us girls so that we won't be wandering the streets just the 5 of us late at night. This house is a little further off from campus than the other ones so I better remember to bundle up tonight and pick up some coffee. Kingston IS damn cold in the winter.
Today was really not a very good day to be doing this. At the moment, my fingers are still sufficiently numb that I can't type properly and it has already been at least 15 minutes since I got back to res although it could have been a lot worse had it not been for my new wool gloves. Thanks so much Hong for those!! Without them, I think my fingers would have gotten so badly frostbitten that I would have had to cut them off. ewww....I'm so glad that didn't happen!
So anyway, here is an update on the house situation. Currently, we have a group of 5 asian girls down from the original 6. Terri decided to back out because she thought six people living together was a little much. Terri's a really nice girl so it's quite a shame. =( That leaves us now with Viv, Emily, Chloe, Karen and myself. We're generally a nice group of girls...quiet, not party animals, tidy, hmm...actually I don't know about Bibs...she'll make you stand outside her door for 10 minutes before she'll even let you in so she can tidy up! So basically, you can say that we're a landlord's dream come true. At least that the impression I hope we gave to Daphne Dean today. She's one of those landlords who is notorious throughout the Queen's campus for being very strict with her tenants. Before we were even allowed to step forth inside one of her precious houses, she already laid down all the ground rules. No parties, no pets, no painting of the walls and no more than 4 guests after 9 pm but I'm pretty sure there were many more to that since I could hardly hear anything from the back of the crowd. And how does she know how many people you have in your house after 9?? Easy. She counts the number of shoes at the door when she goes around to do her regular house inspections. Talk about strict!!
But despite all that, her houses were definitely very impressive aside from 2 or 3 that I found not as nice but still decent. The 2 good ones had a good layout, very spacious, cheery bedrooms and large friendly kitchen with living room attached. As I'm getting to see more and more houses, I'm beginning to not mind very much the idea of getting a house instead of an apartment which is what our focus started out on. With so many people living together, an apartment will mostly probably be too small and leave us each with no personal space. AHH...I don't want everyone pissed of all each other only after the first week! Anyway...all we have to do now is go look at these houses a few more times because that is the only way she will even consider taking you in. It isn't until after the second visit that she'll even let you fill in an application! crazy, crazy lady...but nice houses I'll give her that!
One more house to see tonight...probably going to get Jason to tag along to protect us girls so that we won't be wandering the streets just the 5 of us late at night. This house is a little further off from campus than the other ones so I better remember to bundle up tonight and pick up some coffee. Kingston IS damn cold in the winter.
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