We Moved..

...and then we moved back

at the beginning of summer Kelly and I started looking for a new place to live. Something closer to his school and my work. One of the first places we looked at seemed perfect, it was a basement apartment in Sugarhouse, about 10 to 15 mins away from everywhere we needed to be. It had a little yard and even a doggy door for Hershey. 

It seemed great. we went to an open house to view the place and talked to the girl currently living there who said she loved living there and there were no problems. We filled out an application and a few days later got in touch with the owner and we were all set to move in. 

We were both so excited to have a fresh start and have a place of our own ( we had been living in my dads house  where I have lived since I was a junior in high school) it never really felt like our own.

The day we got the keys we went to do some light cleaning to get everything nice and ready to move. I knew the place would be cleaned previous to us moving in  but there were just a few things i wanted to do for my own peace of mind.

so we walk down stairs and were greeted with these

Tons and Tons of them everywhere, crawling on the floor and flying around. It was sick.

and that began the start of my hate for the place..but i knew Kelly was really excited to live in Salt Lake so I tried to just forget about it.

We walked around the place to take inventory of any damage from the previous tenants and start to notice they cleaned nothing. The carpets were stained and dirty, the doors and walls had dirt and smudges and the toilet still had pee all over it. It was really discouraging to walk into our new home and be so grossed out and dissappointed.

We vacuumed the bugs called the landlord who had a cleaning service come and take care of the place and we didn't go back for 3 days. 

We came back with high hopes, we walk in and there are more bugs everywhere, we watch them crawl up from the floors. we spent the next 3 days taking a few hours everyday to try and clean and stop the bugs as well as scrub the bathroom tile grout which was black but should have been white.That was fun.

Everyday when I left I would try and be positive and excited for a new start but everytime we came back I was so sad and discouraged to be moving into this gross place. The day we started moving our stuff in my sister Ciec came to help me finish the nasty tile grout. I was really upset and sad to be leaving our nice house in centerville to come to this bug infested place. While we were cleaning more bugs came up through the floor, we could hear the upstairs people talking and having conversations we really didnt want to hear and I just couldnt do it. I broke down outside to Kelly telling him how much I hated this place and  how hard I tried to like it because I knew he was so excited to live in Salt Lake. We had a good deep conversation.. all while a drug bust happened across the street. 

He was really understanding and we decided to ask my dad if we could move back into his second home back  to our quiet neighborhood, nice backyard and bug free home. So were back and happy and have been having fun re doing our house and decorating to make it feel new and ours and im certainly happy to be back to having wonderful neighbors.