Our New Home

My wedding blogs have been on hiatus for a while.  It turns out that buying a condo, moving into a condo, and planning a wedding takes up a lot of time, so I’ve really been slacking on writing about the wedding planning. So here’s a quick recap of what we have accomplished in the last 4 or so months…

 Our new home

The biggest development is that we bought a condo! We started looking around Labor Day weekend, shortly after we decided on a reception venue.  Our timeline for buying a condo was driven in large part by the possibility that Rob might get deployed in December.  Thankfully, that deployment thankfully never came to fruition. 

We started by searching for units in Park Central, the building in which Rob was renting a unit.  We liked the location, the staff, the amenities, and basically everything about the place.   We were looking for a two-bedroom unit, and unfortunately, the few two- bedroom unit that were listed for sale did not suit us for one reason or another.

 Once we decided to venture outside the building, we got an awesome realtor (thanks Atlantaben.com) who basically showed up every two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit in the area.   It seemed like we visited every condo building in midtown.

 Although we seriously considered making offers on a couple of units in other buildings, we couldn’t quite find one that suited us..  We kept coming back to how much we liked Park Central.  For example, some buildings felt too stuffy.  Others had a staff that was less friendly than the staff at Park Central.  Others had no guest parking, which would have limited our ability to have family and friends visit.  Others had terrible situations for handicap parking, such as tandem assigned parking spots with handicap spots on a first come, first serve basis for residents.  We cam close to deciding to continue renting the one bedroom/one bath for another year while we waited for the a more suitable unit to become available.

 Luckily, this didn’t happen! Late in the process, a few units became available in Park Central that were more suited to our tastes.  After losing one unit for which we made an offer, we finally closed on our new home.  It is a two bedroom/ two bathroom unit with two assigned parking spots.  I was able to make arrangements to switch my parking space to a handicap spot with enough room for my ramp.  We plan to upgrade the kitchen after the wedding with new appliances and cabinets with pull-out drawers.  Also, we plan on making the bathroom more accessible.  There is still work to be done, but it’s livable and cozy. Best of all, it’s OURS.