We are Moving!!

Super exciting news for our little family!! We are moving when our lease is up on our current apartment in September. 

This will be our 3rd move in Seattle. We moved out of our first apartment when it was sold to be turned into condos. We could not leave the neighborhood and moved just 6 blocks south to our current apartment where we have been for the last 5 years. As apartments go, ours is pretty nice. A large 2 bedroom 2 bath with garage parking for the mini and only 4 blocks from Immortal Dog and right on major bus lines. We had no reason to move to another apartment - which means we are moving to a house!! 

I have been living in apartments for the last 10 years and had started to get the itch for a house last summer. We wanted to grow things, have a yard for the dogs and Mr. Ramon wanted to keep a yard. We knew that we had a long list of requirements for a house. Since we really liked out apartment - the house had to be "better" than what we had. So the search was on - trying to balance cost, location and amenities all within our time frame.

After a couple of failed attempts - prices to high, location not central etc. I thought we were going to have to give up. But then a customer of mine called to say she had found a hosue in her neighborhood that we for rent that we should take a look at. We went directly and I was immediatly excited! 

This house was in the area we wanted on a quite street corner lot with a huge front and back yard that had a detached garage. We called the number and made an appointment to see it the very next day. 

Let's just say that meeting was magical. The leasing agent was awesome and we hit it off. I could tell we were his dream renters. The house had everything on the list plus. It had just gone through a lengthy remodel by the new owner and had new bathrooms, new kitchen, original hardwoods, new carpet upstairs, 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms. I was smitten. The price was a little higher than we wanted but we knew it couldn't get any better. 

The most amazing thing that happened - the owner originally set the property up as a not pet property. But with letters from our trainers, me being in the pet industry and the leasing agents good words she was willing to us move in with our 3 pups!

So the packing begins! I am hoping to pull of a very organize move and get rid of a lot of stuff hanging around in our closets.