Talk about sudden change!
I finally got over being sick and having a tooth pulled. When I dropped my wife off at Costco @ 11:00, we decided that she should pay the rent, because if I paid the rent, they would know that I was there, and that would have been too many people in their single apartment.
I then headed about 30 minutes south to a neighborhood of beautiful houses sitting on a few acre lots to find a place to pray over our next steps. About 30 minutes into it, I distinctly felt that we should wait to buy a house, and that we should move into a new apartment. Not eventually…but today! … before she pays the rent!
I drove back to Costco to run this by my wife. After all, I thought it might be a little awkward if I signed a lease and moved her things without her knowledge!
“Oh, yeah, honey, I forgot to tell you. This is our new place! What do you think?”
I stopped by a couple of and picked up booklets listing all of the apartments in the general area, drove by several and then actually went inside to look at one. It was a big complex, but had very few openings. They took me to the only 3 BR, 2 BA place available. “This is great…we’ll take it.”
We went back to the office to discuss the particulars. When they learned that I had just arrived in KC, that I didn’t have a job, but that I had cash from the sale of our house, they wobbled. Well, they worse than wobbled.
“What if I pay the whole year’s rent up front?”
“No. We can’t do that.”
But that convinced them that I was serious.
“But let’s start working on all of the documentation.”
After multiple trips back and forth to the bank, Costco, the high school, etc., I had all of the documentation and verification (bank statements, my wife’s employment, children attending local schools, yada, yada, yada).
The women at the desks were amazed! “We’ve never seen this done this quickly. This usually takes three days.”
Everything was completed and got processed minutes before their office closed at 6:00 P.M.! And that is no exaggeration. We were talking as they walked out and locked the office door. We just had to wait on our background checks before we could move in.
