[Fallacies of Irresponsibility] Started my search!
So I’ve started my search for housing, almost exclusively via craigslist. My first attempt yielded a 50% success rate - I emailed 4 people, 2 of them got back to me, and with the help of my friend Raymond, I was able to check out both of them. I liked one, and I submitted an application on Friday (I saw both places Wednesday). Optimistically, the earliest I’m going to hear from them is Monday.
On Leg 2 of this search, which will start Tuesday, I plan to see about 4. This mighty accomplishment will not happen if Raymond wasn’t willing to help out. I feel like I’ve been bugging him too much, so this will be the last time he’ll be on this mission with me. In perparation, I’ve emailed ~10. Actually wait, let me go get the actual number. Okay it’s 9. Close enough though, right? Now keeping the success rate as before, that should yield me 5 results (4.5 rounded up), and so far there’s 2. One at 10am and one at 2:30pm. Now let’s hope there are 2 replies from the rest.
Actually I just want the house that I turned in the app for. That would make life much easier, and I can start moving in by Jan 1. Here’s hoping for something good to happen. Knock on wood.
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December 21st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
It’s a good idea to check out the two other places because you never know one of them might be better. It’s like residential investors finding a new house. They always start with hundreds of potentials and narrow down to double digits and then single digits. And finally, the investor buys one house.