Home is Where You Make It

So it looks like "Midtown on Main" is going to be the place we call home. Well either home or work depending on how you look at it. We will finally have a 2 bedroom (tiny as it may be) so that Scottie has an actual office, rather than a wall for his workspace and we will be working for our keep (aka free rent) through the CARES team program. That means we will be planning events for our apartment complex community in exchange for this free apartment. It is a great incentive for us to be doing what we should already be doing anyways- loving our neighbors. We can count up to 10 hours of volunteer time towards our hours every month, so please get ready for BBQ's, movie nights, swap meets, etc.! Aww, come on, it will be fun I promise! :-)

Both Scottie and I could not be more excited about the complex manager. It is so obvious that she cares more about the people and using our program to help them, than she does about resident retention, getting rent paid on time, etc. She is also working very hard to clean up the property and undo a lot of damage that was done by the last management company.

The people there seem pretty awesome as well. They are a wide variety of people and the manager said they are completely thrilled by the smallest efforts put forth towards doing something special for them. They almost had an aneurysm when free Popsicles were handed out to them. Nothing like being appreciated for the ministry you do! We figured that in the other complex we were looking at moving to, the people probably wouldn't eat free Popsicles unless they were sugar free and organic. So we seem to be going to the right place for us and we wouldn't have it any other way... Well unless of course there was a complex available with the same cool people and WITHOUT the mustard yellow appliances, fake wood panel cabinets, and tiny rooms! Looks like I'm going to have to learn to live in 1982 and like it.

Here's the complex! Learn to love it because we expect you all to be around reminiscing about the about the 80's decor with us quite frequently!