Yippie, we found one!!

Whao!!! After six weeks of phone-dating agents and running around Brooklyn, we finally found a pad. The first time we saw this pad was about three weeks ago and we loved it. We put in an application and bam............... let the game begin!!!! It took two full weeks to get an interview with the landlord and his wife. We finally met them, his wife is so hot and she came with one of her grandchildren. I almost could not believe my eyes, I could not help to stare. I still dont know how some people pull it off, they just freeze at twenty five and even when they are forty five, they still look twenty five. I wish I could do that; at twenty five, I was soo hot I could date me. Ok, enough of that.
The pad is a 2 bedroom, standard New York new development. It is really cute, a walk in closet in the master bedroom, a cute bathroom, kitchen and living room together, loads of closets all over the apartment. I am so excited, I can't wait to start decorating and putting things in place. So, I have about ten days to get everything in place and proceed to start my post-MBA job. I love being an MBA in the US. It is soo cool - like the best thing after sliced bread.
So, I came out of the house hunt experience with loads of lessons for the folks that will be looking.
1. Don't schedule two different agents with listings in the same neighbourhood half an hour apart. You really don't want to have a discussion about the apartment her competition just showed you.
I happened to shedule Beta to meet me at the same point I was meeting Pi about half an hour apart. Lo and behold, Beta pulled up in her car as Pi was approaching the crossroad and yelled my name. So I went to her and whispered, "you're so early". I ran across the road and walked away with Pi. Needless to say, I had to carry-on a conversation about the apartment when I finally made it back to the crossroad where she was waiting patiently.
2. Phone calls don't move brokers, you need to show up in the office a few times for them to know you're serious. Yes, even after putting in an application and putting down a deposit. Those people are different.
3. If the broker is impatient or rude on the phone, don't waste your time chasing that apartment. You won't get it.
4. Landlords are either from Pluto or Mercury: remember Pluto has been de-planeted. They either want you to heamorrhage the dough a few minutes after seeing the apartment or they take forever. It is simply ridiculous!!
5. Forget about your dream apartment; it is yet to be built.
6. Some people's only access to their bedroom is by a wooden ladder. Believe it. It only happens in NY near Fort Greene Park.