Actually, this may not be The One, or I must say, we just settled for what's available and what's within our budget. We lost The One a few days ago.
Here's the story of The One.
A few months back, sometime late February, my friend told me that a unit at their condo building is being leased out. So I asked for the contact number, and I was able to talk to the owner. We were scheduled for an ocular visit that weekend and we liked the place immediately. You know, there's a "this is it!" feel to it. But since John's contract with his current apartment in QC is not expiring til 2nd week of May, we didn't do any payments yet. We just told the owner to just be in touch with us in case someone shows interest with the unit, then maybe we can do something about the payment when the need arises.
So I did a follow-up with him weeks after. And he said the unit is still available but someone's inquiring but haven't done any ocular yet. A week after that, I had a chat with my friend and she mentioned that the "for rent" sign is no longer posted at the door. Then I told her, no, it can't be, coz the owner agreed to contact us in case someone's really interested with the unit so we can settle the payment. And I contacted the owner to confirm about the condition of the unit, and he was very apologetic and told me that he forgot about us! I was really really really pissed that day. Make that super pissed that I was fuming at John - but was sorry afterward coz it was not his fault anyway. Oh well, there's no one to blame. The unit is all gone. We got nothing to do but to look for another one.
Days passed by from searching the net, contacting numbers and emails here and there, doing ocular visits until we found the 2nd best. Oh actually, that was the 3rd best yet.
On the same condo building, we went straight to the broker and they got a few more units available. We went to the first one, a one-bedroom unit - semi-furnished. The size was very promising! We were already talking about the payment arrangements when John had to check his phone and use the calculator application to compute our payables and lo and behold: NO SIGNAL! as in nada! nothing! waley! ZERO! we checked the nearby corners of the unit (which by the way is just a few steps away), but there was still: NOTHING! and the agent finally butted in (maybe after being awa to us during our raising-our-arms-up-high-holding-our-phone moment in search for the most-sought for SIGNAL), "ay wala talagang signal dito kasi inner unit". Oh okay. I wish she just mentioned earlier so as not to fill our hearts with hope that this will be our new home. So we asked her if we could see the other units. And so she went back to their office to get the keys and we headed back to the elevator and went to the 7th floor. We viewed 2 studio units. One is fully furnished (which I didn't really like because of the too-big bed that occupied the entire room! - im exaggerating, but yeah, it was too big! It looks like this:
and at the foot of the bed is a 29-inch old school tv. (exactly looks like this)
so I told John that it's too furnished that we won't be able to move freely anymore. So we asked her to see the other studio unit. She said instantly, "ay, inner unit din yun. Walang signal dun." I appreciate her honesty but since she brought the key with her anyway, then why don't we just give it a try. So we walked a few more steps and we were already at the other unit.
It was all blue. The room looked small because of the dark color and there was an adjacent condo building next to our window. So we took out our phones and to our surprise, we had signal! Yey! :) There was a bed, but a smaller one. There was a slot for the A/C so we need not sell John's A/C. It comes with a few appliances like electric fan, rice cooker, electric stove for a much cheaper price than the fully-furnished studio unit.
So we said, this is it! This is finally IT! We made it The One even it was originally not.
I'm still in the process of letting go and moving on from not the getting the original The One but with John with me, filling our future home with love, affection, peace and joy - the 3rd best will eventually be Our First Home and we will love it as if it was our first find.
PS. I just want to mention that they allow small dogs in the condo building! :) and that makes us soooo happy! :)
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