We've secured another apartment now. And it just happens to be in the same building we're in right now! A mirror version of our current apartment, but on the top floor (7th to Americans, 6th to Brits*). Nice view, fully furnished, and including a dishwasher. Same price as our current apartment, though that wasn't the case until recently. They had been trying to rent it out for £850, unsuccessfully. We'll be signing a 12-month lease starting on the 23rd.
K and I were talking about the timing involved in this outcome. All of the events leading up to this seemed to be steeped with bad luck, but was it actually good luck in disguise? We now believe the manager of LD Property Management knew all along that the landlord was dying. In fact, there was a court case already ongoing when we first looked at the apartment (something about a someone who owns three of the other flats in the building, the settlement being that she has to buy the one we were interested in). We think he was just stringing us along for some reason and when he first called us about the landlord possibly dying, he was probably already dead. Anyway, if we had moved in there sooner and all this happened... ooh, that would have sent me off the edge like Michael Douglas in Falling Down! Luckily that wasn't the case. But the timing eventually led to us being able to stay in the building to which we have become accustomed. No need to get a moving van. We won't even need to move very much furniture up there since the apartment is furnished. And since it's in the same building, we can leisurely migrate our belongings up the stairs without packing!
Is this perhaps the end of our chain of bad luck?
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