My task, should I choose to accept it, is to locate potential places for Rachel and I to live starting in May. Well, I have accepted this task but I did manage to put it off until the last minute. We are hoping to look at potential residences on Tuesday February 28, and I did not start my research until today.
Perusing the information kept by the graduate student life office of Lehigh University, I was able to find a total of 47 residences that were at one time advertised as available for rent. Of those, I called the landlords of each of the 6 properties that allowed cats. Each of those 6 properties had already been rented to someone else, although 1 of the landlords had an additional property for me to look at.
I get the feeling this is going to be a difficult search. Our criteria are as follows:
- Rent in the range of $400 – $800. Lower than that would be great, but I can’t imagine any place large enough for two people to live in costing less than $400. Higher than that would be a budgetary strain, although we are willing to consider costs up to $1000.
- General proximity to Lehigh University and Lehigh Valley Hospital.
- Rural or suburban community. Both of us lived most of our lives in the middle of farm country. Obviously we aren’t going to find something quite lack that here, but we would like to be in a less populous area than my current residence.
- Laundry facilities on-site. Travelling to a laundromat just sucks.
- Cat-friendly. Rachel would really like to have a pet.
Know any places? Please share.
go to http://www.yourpaagents.com and do a search for rentals. you can plug all those criteria in.
Comment by Chris — February 25, 2006 @ 12:58 am
if you choose to accept it – hmm, I missed that conversation :)
Comment by Rachel — February 25, 2006 @ 7:54 am