I think I FINALLY found a place to rent!

It's been over a year since I've been looking. The rental/housing market here is insane.

Where I've been for the past 6 months was supposed to be temporary, somewhere between 1-3 months, and I've been paying about twice what it's worth, which sucks.

The tipping point for me was this whole virus thing and the fact that I have no actual kitchen, just a hot plate, microwave, and share half of a 2nd fridge with the owners, and it's in a laundry room where several people come in and out and wash their possibly virus-laden clothes on a regular basis.

When the daughter/step daughter told me about a week ago she was going to come home from her job and strip off her clothes in my kitchenette and put her clothes in the washer/dryer, while meantime she'd made sure her living area was pristine, but making my food prepping and cooking area the most dangerous part of the household, NOPE.

Not having a kitchen has been a first for me, and a PITA, but sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, but this is potentially a matter of life or death, so I started looking again for a place.

I found one! Not only is it less than this overpriced place, it's about 3x bigger, with a full kitchen, fireplace, and a shared pool! Love the guy who owns it. It's his former family home.

I can't wait! He's fine with my dog, and everything else. Just a matter of running a check on me and there ain't no way that'll come up other than great. Today he told me he's removing the listing and it's mine, unless something weird happens with the credit/criminal check, and there's no way that'll come up anything other than aces.

Now I just have to tell my current landlord, which sucks, because they have a small business and I know it's a bad time. Then again, they've overcharged me all this time.