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The Latest on the Move to Champaign
Jun. 2nd, 2009 12:48 pmOK... Last week, I drove up to Champaign (Illinois) to look at housing/jobs for our upcoming move. Pretty much everything relating to the move was on hold until then, since I couldn't know before having a new place to live when the lease would start and whatnot. But, I know all that now, so here's the scoop.
Our new lease will begin August 20. Our last day of work will be September 3. We plan to go to DragonCon. After that, we're moving. Our lease at our current apartment in Atlanta ends September 30, so we have to be gone by then, but plan to move the week after DragonCon.
All the cats will be going with us. Once again, with a huge deposit ($150 per cat refundable, $150 per cat non-refundable) and extra rent ($10 per month per cat), we have found a place that's OK with us bringing all 5 cats. If I couldn't have found such a place, we couldn't have moved. Period. But my convictions that animals are not expendable when they're inconvenient continue to work for me, albeit it takes some extra work. /soapbox
We will be moving into the 88 West Apartments in Champaign, Illinois. If you look at the 88 West website, we're going to be living in a 3-bedroom floorplan apartment. Personally, I highly recommend the website. These apartments ROCK. They're designed for the college students, which
BlckwngdOrcl and I aren't (yet), but you don't have to be a student to live there. All utilities (water, sewer, trash, cable, high-speed internet) and amenities (see website) are included in the rent, except phone (and we have our cells for that) and there's a limit on the electric bill ($35 per bedroom in a 3-bedroom for $105 total in our place), and we have to pay any overage. The cable is less than we have now (and I've never heard of the cable company), so I'm REALLY going to miss my DVR, but there's always Hulu and NetFlix. Plus we can upgrade once we get settled/can afford it. High-speed internet is cable, not DSL. No gas, since everything's electric. Location is great - literally walking distance to the mall and a bunch of big-box stores, and 3 miles from campus. I'm not a big fan of the big-box stores, but nice to have them around.
Our rent went up a whole dollar, but we'll suddenly be saving at least $500 a month on utilities, which will ROCK. I'm pretty sure the square footage is comparable, and you totally can't be the amenities. (Have you scoped out the website yet? You should. SRSLY.)
Pics below the cut. Keep in mind that these are pics of a furnished apartment (which they offer), and we'll be getting an unfurnished apartment, so it'll look different when it's us. Gives you an idea of scale/layout, though.
( On to the pictures! )
As of now, we're not planning any going-away bashes (well, one, but VERY limited attendance, and it won't be talked about on this LJ!), but wouldn't turn down any that are thrown on our behalf. Ditto for going-away presents. ;) Our schedules have now become finite, so if you want to see either of us before we go, definitely get in touch with us. If you don't have any contact info for us, just use BookOfMirrors@LiveJournal.com or BlckwngdOrcl@LiveJournal.com.
I'll post our new address in a friends-locked post, and may talk more about the trip up north in general later.
Wish us luck!!!
Our new lease will begin August 20. Our last day of work will be September 3. We plan to go to DragonCon. After that, we're moving. Our lease at our current apartment in Atlanta ends September 30, so we have to be gone by then, but plan to move the week after DragonCon.
All the cats will be going with us. Once again, with a huge deposit ($150 per cat refundable, $150 per cat non-refundable) and extra rent ($10 per month per cat), we have found a place that's OK with us bringing all 5 cats. If I couldn't have found such a place, we couldn't have moved. Period. But my convictions that animals are not expendable when they're inconvenient continue to work for me, albeit it takes some extra work. /soapbox
We will be moving into the 88 West Apartments in Champaign, Illinois. If you look at the 88 West website, we're going to be living in a 3-bedroom floorplan apartment. Personally, I highly recommend the website. These apartments ROCK. They're designed for the college students, which
BlckwngdOrcl and I aren't (yet), but you don't have to be a student to live there. All utilities (water, sewer, trash, cable, high-speed internet) and amenities (see website) are included in the rent, except phone (and we have our cells for that) and there's a limit on the electric bill ($35 per bedroom in a 3-bedroom for $105 total in our place), and we have to pay any overage. The cable is less than we have now (and I've never heard of the cable company), so I'm REALLY going to miss my DVR, but there's always Hulu and NetFlix. Plus we can upgrade once we get settled/can afford it. High-speed internet is cable, not DSL. No gas, since everything's electric. Location is great - literally walking distance to the mall and a bunch of big-box stores, and 3 miles from campus. I'm not a big fan of the big-box stores, but nice to have them around. Our rent went up a whole dollar, but we'll suddenly be saving at least $500 a month on utilities, which will ROCK. I'm pretty sure the square footage is comparable, and you totally can't be the amenities. (Have you scoped out the website yet? You should. SRSLY.)
Pics below the cut. Keep in mind that these are pics of a furnished apartment (which they offer), and we'll be getting an unfurnished apartment, so it'll look different when it's us. Gives you an idea of scale/layout, though.
( On to the pictures! )
As of now, we're not planning any going-away bashes (well, one, but VERY limited attendance, and it won't be talked about on this LJ!), but wouldn't turn down any that are thrown on our behalf. Ditto for going-away presents. ;) Our schedules have now become finite, so if you want to see either of us before we go, definitely get in touch with us. If you don't have any contact info for us, just use BookOfMirrors@LiveJournal.com or BlckwngdOrcl@LiveJournal.com.
I'll post our new address in a friends-locked post, and may talk more about the trip up north in general later.
Wish us luck!!!
