This is one adventure that I don't want to do very often. I think it would have been much more enjoyable if the heat of the summer wasn't on us and taking a baby around was hard to do. She did awesome, but we had to go a little slower because we had her with us.
We had a good game plan down and arrived in Easley later than expected because of a road closure and long detour. We stopped at the first hotel we arrived at...Hampton Inn and got a great rate on a room (military discount). After dinner we checked some of the house rentals online and headed to bed. The first full day of the hunt started with us driving to a few of the properties before we called the realtors and that saved them some time. The first house looked beautiful in the pictures and looked like it would be a great rental....wrong. The house was in a run down area and the yard was crazy. Crazy with the landscaping and a hill on the side that wouldn't be fun to push mow.
Next house we headed to was in Clemson and it too looked nice in the pictures.....but was needing a good bath in "person". We decided to call the realtor to look inside and that didn't help change our minds about it....it smelled and wasn't worth the rental money. The realtor was trying to tell us that one of Clemson's past football player's family lived in this house....like that was going to make us want the house....ummm nope:)
I am drawing a blank on how many more houses we looked at this day. We were looking at so many on the internet and in person that I lost count. We found a few we liked, but a 3 year lease was not an option and we have no plans to move during the middle of this tour. We ran across some super sweet people and one of the realtors reminded us of Grammy (Rob's grandma). Marjorie, the realtor, was a super sweet lady, going to make no money off us, but looked for houses for us and showed us some all three days we were there. She found us some beautiful homes in our price range, but they were not as family friendly as we wanted them.
We have seen dirty houses, messy houses (yes there is a difference in dirty and messy), old and new houses......lake front, hill side and finally found the house fit for our family. The hunt for our perfect house all started by Rob talking to an Army Major in Chickfila....the Major gave us his friend's number (a big time realtor in the area)....who talked to a property manager...who was about to list a house that fit our needs! We not only was able to see the house before it was listed, we were able to meet the owner. Super nice owner, who passed along his contact information, just in case we need to contact him.
We start all the paperwork this coming week and will hopefully be able to pass along the address to family and friends by the end of this week!!
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