Sand In My Toes

Oh my, who thought it would be this hard to find a rental?  Here?!?

The economy here is much worse than the rest of the US.  There are lots of houses on the market, many in foreclosure, and a relatively large amount of rental properties.  We were expecting to find a glut of options that suited our needs, in a fair price.  Now we're wondering if we were wrong.

We think we've narrowed down the county we want to be in.  We've found a homeschooling group and an unschooling group that I have a good feeling about.  This county has remarkably less rentals that the alternate county we were considering.  Now we've also found that the pricing for what is on the market in our range, is really high.  What is in our range, that we've looked at, have some real issues.
Today's viewing was the worst.  It looked great on the outside, great landscaping and yard, lake access too.  The inside... reeked of cigarettes.  It was dirty.  Really dirty and needed lots of repair work.

Dirty will not get your house rented.  I'll spare the details of the other properties we looked at.

This morning we had high hopes about a cute place we found in a really cool neighborhood.  Alas, an application was already put in on it.  Back to the search.