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[nohanii]

For the last few weeks, Dan and I have been visiting different apartment communities around Irvine. We found one in Huntington Beach that is almost perfect for our needs. It's a nice little community with a pool and landscaping. That apartment that was showed us was on the second of two floors. It's a one bedroom apartment with a gas stove, a ceiling fan in the dining room, a large living room, and a walk-in closet in the bedroom for a total of 615 square feet. It's a little smaller when compared to the 652 square feet of our current apartments, but it seems bigger. And there will only be two people living there and sharing everything instead of three people, all with their own stuff. There are two windows on opposite sides of the apartment: one on the living room/dining room wall and one in the bedroom. This apartment faces the ocean on the bedroom side, and since there are no other tall buildings in the immediate vicinity, it catches a really nice breeze. The previous occupent lived here for 22 years before getting married and moving out, so everything in the apartment has been redone very recently. And guess what? We got this exact apartment! Rent is $1050 (compared to $1500 now), and the manager managed to waive the pet rent for Jewel, which saves us around $25 per month. Our move-in date is August 22nd, so I have less than four weeks left with these idiots! The only really bad thing about this place is it doesn't come with a refrigerator, so we'll have to hunt one down on craigslist fairly soon. Oh well.

Oh, and Awesome Fact #508: It's about a half mile from the beach with wetlands and hiking trails in between. It's also fairly close to a big touristy mall and a farmer's market held on Thursday evenings.