Apartment hunting

Puppy came to Boston this past weekend so we could look at a few apartments for our new life in Beantown. We made appointments with a broker to see several units throughout the South End and spent Saturday with her carting us around in her little black car.

Our broker was a singer-songwriter who hummed throughout the day and made it very clear that she didn't intend to be in real estate as a primary profession. That said, she seemed pretty adept at opening doors for us and showing us different available units.

We saw many modern apartments, a few traditional brownstones and a couple of funky lofts. Yesterday, we put in an application for a spacious loft in a building that used to be a piano factory. I'm not that keen on the building itself (The hallways kind of smelled to me and I'm 99% sure a recent episode of Hoarders was filmed in one of the units.), but it's a lot of space for the monthly rent, didn't require any deposits and includes utilities! I think we'll find out in the next day or so whether or not we get the unit.