Well, I said I'd be back later and here I am nearly a month later... whoops!
Here's a little story about why Cory and I haven't moved, it's a good one.
Cory and I were planning on moving to save money. We found a cute, 2 bedroom, 2 bath duplex with a garage, super close to my work. It was also about $200 less a month than what we were currently paying. So, we submitted an application. We waited and waited and waited. Cory had called several times and wasn't able to get an answer, so I called. The owner informed me that he was about to make his decision, but he needed to talk to Cory, and it wasn't something he could talk to me about...this worried me.
Before all of this Cory had told me that he was getting a weird vibe from the duplex owner. It turns out that when Cory went to take a look at the duplex the neighbor looked really familiar, but he couldn't figure out why. One morning he came home from work and said he knew why the kid from the duplex looked familiar, Cory had arrested him several months earlier and then had arrested him again that night. Cory was getting really anxious and was feeling like MAYBE the kid he arrested was related to the guy who owned the duplex and they had the same last name. I mentioned that maybe it was just a coincidence and it would not make sense for the owner of the duplex to deny us a place to live just because Cory had arrested someone who was related to him.
Well the duplex owner finally called Cory, told him that we were the best applicants they had ever had and then asked if he'd have a problem with the neighbor. Cory said he didn't think so and said that he didn't think the kid had a problem with him when he arrested him...which is when the guy got VERY upset and basically accused Cory and the City of trying to run his son out of town and that the only reason we applied for the duplex was to keep an eye on his son. Like it was some conspiracy with the City (which is not the case at all!). In the end the owner of the duplex told us that he couldn't rent us the duplex due the fact that if he rented it to us his wife would make him sleep on the couch.
I was VERY upset that we didn't get the duplex and considered reporting it to the fair housing administration, however after talking with Cory we decided that it was probably best since the owner may not have been fair in dealing with us if we ever had a problem with anything.
Luckily we were able to renew our lease with our current apartment for a lower rate! It also meant that we didn't have to move again!!!
