Back to Square One

So we received bad news yesterday about the house we have waited over a month for. The safety inspection was supposed to be yesterday but our realtor received a call saying that it was blocked from being rented and gave no reason why. We were angry because we've waited so long and if it was blocked we should have been told a month ago. We went to the office this morning to find out why and the landlord was also there. He was waiting to talk to the director to find the reason why as well. So we left for awhile to give them time to figure everything out and when we went back they gave us a few comment sheets from previous tenants stating that the landlord was terrible among other serious problems. The neighbors dogs bark always and the house has been broken into several times and nothing gets fixed and the landlord doesn't take care of the property and there's a mold problem...

So we decided those reasons were good enough to keep looking. Unfortunately the other house,(which we also loved) that we saw on the first tour was no longer available. We had an appointment with our realtor today. She showed us two houses. The first was a duplex which was kind of small, but nice. And the second was a little older but huge and pretty awesome. It had a lot of things that the first house we tried to get, didn't have, but we were hoping for. And our realtor knows the previous tenant and called her and let Sean speak with her to ask her any questions we had. She had nothing but good things to say so we are going to try again. We are hoping that they will fit us in a little quicker considering we have been here for 6 weeks and the only thing we are waiting on is a house. 

Heres some pics of our prospective abode..

evicted!

Updates! Apparently due to a clerical error on behalf of the wonderful Navy Lodge in Naples Italy, we are now having to find a hotel out in town because our room was reserved for 26 days vice 60 days alloted for Temporary Lodging. So now we are going to be staying in a hotel out about 30 minutes away from my work, and the Support Site where Paighton goes to school. Oh yea we still don't have a car to get around. Amidst everything else we have to this week we have to fit in moving hotels. Originally we were supposed to be attending an Intercultural Relations class this week to help us adjust and familiarize with the Italians, but now we will be switching hotels, and trying to purchase a "Naples beater" (car). Tomorrow we will be signing a pre contract on the house we want, that pretty much just means that the landlord agrees to not lease the house out to another family and fix any discrepancies noted in the inspection by Navy Housing. Even after the pre contract we still don't expect to be able to move until late June early July.

We wont get our Honda until the 17th, but we should at least have our other car later this week, im anxious to get out and start driving, Allison on the other hand doesnt feel the same about driving here. Thats about all I have for now. I will post some pics of our place this weekend.
Ciao


ps June Bug secretly likes Louie...