So it turns out we will NOT be moving this summer. Sadly, we had just signed a new lease at our current apartment just before receiving the offer from UCR Family Housing. We were so far down the list we had not anticipated being offered housing any time soon (Boy were we wrong!). Our apartment complex does not have a 'pay out' policy, and we would have had to pay for both places if our apartment was not taken over by anyone else. Our manager quickly started searching for a replacement. She found one, and we were SURE everything would work out, but it was not in the cards. Corporate did not approve the other renter for whatever reason, and we were left back at square one with no other biters on our place. The clock ticked away and we were forced say farewell to the dream of an outdoor space.
While we will sure miss those barbeque dreams, we were saved the hassle of having to move three times in three years (we would have had to leave as soon as Kristin graduated, and then again once when she gets accepted into a PA program). Instead, we'll put the energy into loving our first place and this summer together.
