Hi guys,
I have some very exciting news! After 2 weeks of extreme stress I have found a house to live in next year! The last two weeks have been very intense, we weren't really warned that we'd have to think about this all so soon and so fast but it was a bit of a blind panic and before i knew it everyone was going for house viewings and I didnt even know who I was living with. The whole block is quite tense because there has been many arguments over who lives with who and where everyones living etc. I think a lot of people have been very stressed about it so tensions were high. But eventually it was decided that I would live with Sarah, Anthony (from downstairs) and Sarahs friend Tash from Lacrosse. Ive met her a few times and shes very nice so im excited to live with them.
Anyway so once we had decided who to live with we went to see lots of houses to try and decide what we wanted. A problem we came across quite a lot which was interesting was that many of the houses had one room that was significantly smaller than the other bedrooms. This wasnt really ideal because it caused problems about how we would decide who got that bedroom etc so we started asking the landlords only to take us to houses where the rooms were pretty similar. We quickly found that many of the chain estate agents (Such as Nicholas Humpreys) were very impersonal and seemed to just trying to be con us out of money-" put down £200 now to reserve this house it'll be gone by tommorow etcetc- so we wanted to find someone who was more personable and we trusted morem Our friends upstairs used a private landlord called Andrew Chell and reccomended him to us so we tried him. He only has 16 houses and each of them is very very nice with pine furnature for a much better price than some of the chains. We saw one of his houses and loved it so we are signing the papers for it tonight. I will be living at 86 Station Street. Its a great adventure because I hear Dad talk about his first uni house 'Welton Grove' all the time and its just such a weird thought that in 15/20 years time I might be recalling the good times I had in Station Street. It gives me quite and excited feeling and makes me feel so grown up!
If you are interested in seeing the house I have popped a link to it here so you can see pictures. We have a dishwasher, washing machine, bath and tv. So much luxury!!!
http://www.andrewchell.com/stationstreet_86.html
:)
