{"id":1121,"date":"2010-07-31T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2010-07-31T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T02:33:47","slug":"the-new-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/the-new-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

We rolled into Minnesota on Thursday, July 29, in time for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 We spent Friday setting up the fabulous new guestroom in the basement of the Stocco’s house.\u00c2\u00a0 Today (Saturday) Sarah and I left Griffin with Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Pam so that we could drive up to St. Paul to start scouting out possible apartments.\u00c2\u00a0 We figured we would see some places today and then setup more appointments for Monday and Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Our fingers were crossed that we could sign a lease by next weekend to have this big hurdle behind us.<\/p>\n

At 10:30 we arrived at our first appointment.\u00c2\u00a0 The Craigslist ad sounded good, but didn’t have any pictures so I was skeptical.\u00c2\u00a0 The outside of the duplex was nothing special, though we liked the neighborhood.\u00c2\u00a0 As we reached the top of the stairs, however, we were blown away.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fantastic… beautiful woodwork, a great layout, lots of storage, updated appliances, free laundry… everything we were looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 This seemed too good to be true, so we decided we had better look around at some other places.\u00c2\u00a0 They sucked.\u00c2\u00a0 And they cost more.\u00c2\u00a0 And they sucked.\u00c2\u00a0 We called the landlord and signed a lease.<\/p>\n

We have no pictures yet, but here is the original post from Craigslist:<\/p>\n

Perfect 2 bedroom<\/strong>
\nDate: 2010-07-21, 11:30PM
\nawesome upper duplex. wood floors and all woodwork recently redone. walls painted in subtle yet fun colors. classic st. paul style with sunroom, living room, dining room with gorgeous built in buffet, updated kitchen with dishwasher and huge modern fridge, good sized bedrooms and closets, updated super clean new bathroom with oversize new tub with jets, free garage parking with opener, FREE washer and dryer just for your unit in clean basement, tons of storage space in basement and attic, cute yard with patio and grill….this is a great home for a family, or for roommates… close to st kates, mac, stthomas…email if you would like more info or to set up a showing. 1200 a month, landlord pays water and garbage.
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Feels pretty unreal to have walked into our dream apartment on our first try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We rolled into Minnesota on Thursday, July 29, in time for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 We spent Friday setting up the fabulous new guestroom in the basement of the Stocco’s house.\u00c2\u00a0 Today (Saturday) Sarah and I left Griffin with Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Pam so that we could drive up to St. Paul to start scouting out possible … Continue reading The New Apartment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}