Woo hoo!
I'm at work right now (in Fern Park) and as the train whistle blows in the background, it reminds me of the Lake Mary house with the nearby train tracks. In my new home, I'll be substituting the wail of trains for the roar of airplanes. That's right, Orlando International Airport is just a couple miles from the new place.
So get this, my new rent is $449/month and I signed a lease renewal starting in August which extends me there another year at only a modest increase to $499/month! How sick is that!
As I mentioned in the previous post the place is still a studio so it is small but it's twice the square footage of the Lake Mary house. And it looks great. The grounds are beautifully landscaped and impeccably maintained, the exteriors of the building are in nice contemporary colors and the inside is spotless. All for this low price.
I'm still pinching myself and there's a little bit of a knot in my stomach wondering what the catch is. Hoping there is none, of course. I can't express enough how grateful I am to the winds of fate to have smiled upon me (yes Mrs. Morin, yet another mixed metaphor).
Now having driven it, the travel time and distance to work is actually a bit more than it was from Lake Mary, but at these prices and with these amenities, I think I'll refrain from too much complaining.
Farewell Lake Mary. Ya done me good these past few years, but my feet were itchin'.
Goodbye little house on the lake...
May the ants and mice not reduce you to rubble too soon!