Nastia ans Sean go apartment hunting.

Nastia has been wanting to go and live on her own for a while now, but with bills and not a great salary, it’s been tough.

I don’t remember what changed, it might be that Teri came up with some apartments in a range that were affordable. Maybe it was Teri who kept asking what can you afford to spend on an apartment? If you get the drift, it was most likely, like it always seems to be Teri, the driving force. If it wasn’t for her, I’d still be trying to finish up the paperwork to adopt, wait, no, to get them over here for the summer.

Sean and Nastia found an affordable place in New City to look at and they invited me. While talking I find out they have filled out paperwork they had to pay $500 each for, with the promise the landlord would pay them back. It sounded fishy to me. When he asked for a cosigner, I said yes., I’d be the cosigner. Then the landlord wanted me to fill out the same paperwork. I told him I’d give him my credit score, nothing else. That ended that apartment. I told them to cancel everything they did with him through the bank and get their money back.

Teri gets together with Sally, Sally Ann’s mother. She owns several apartments. She says it is what landlords, what she does when she is looking for a new tenant for her apartments. A few days, maybe a week or so later, they tell me they have a real estate agent who over the next hour or two or so will help them fill out paperwork for future landlords. A few days later, on a Wednesday, I think, the real estate agent has a nice apartment to see in Nyack, at a good price.

We walk up three flights of stairs, they are the back stairs and are narrow. The apartment is small. There is a small shared balcony, the other tenet seems to have taken over completely. Maybe a future problem. The front ‘room’ big enough for a queen or maybe a king bed, with maybe two chest of draws. A small living room, and a small, but functional kitchen. I’m marveling at how nice it is trying to figure out what they can fit in it, when I think Sean opens a corner cabinet and a bunch of about quarter inch bugs scramble for the far corners. My knowledge of cockroaches is you don’t see them if they are alive. I think all that need to be done is a trap or six to fix the problem. Everyone else is grossed out. I don’t know what type of bugs they are so I take my app out and snap a picture. These little buggers are German cockroaches! They also breed so quickly that you’d have to spray every couple of weeks for a while to get rid of them.I am now as grossed out as they are. Everyone leaves quickly.