weird showing this morning. almost seems like a trick, although every dwelling has an entrance, and every landlord has access, anyways. it's more the proximity that's weird to me - enough that i could potentially just use the "bedroom" for storage.

i would normally go through the back door. but i came in through the front door on this day, through the kitchen and through this kind of trap door into the unit, which consists of a bedroom on the main floor, a staircase downstairs and then a kind of semi-basement, in the sense that it's more like the house is on a hill.

so, my bedroom is upstairs and the rest of my apartment is downstairs. and, while there is supposedly a locked door separating the units, this is demonstrably strange to me. i don't expect that the fireplace works, either.

but, this place is actually explicitly non-smoking, in the lease requirements - so i applied for it, because it's so rare to find.

as mentioned, i'd probably use the upstairs space for storage rather than for living, which reduces the unit to a big bachelor apartment. it is a legitimately big room, though - about the size of my entire existing apartment, with the walls knocked down. like 700 square feet. so, it's like a basement loft, even.

that might be my last serious option before sept 1st, when the market is going to change. i looked it up and classes start on the 6th, here in windsor.

there's still hundreds of rooms available for the less wealthy students.

and, the wealthier kids that grew up here and want actual apartments will have already moved by then, too.

well, i tried to plan this to get in BEFORE students. but, the process slowed down over the summer. and i didn't realize how many of them there are, or how much the market is really focusing on them....

listen: i have pure intelligence in the form of aptitude. but, i don't have infinite information. i'm very good at processing information. that doesn't mean i have an advanced ability to predict the future.

i could have done a little more research, but i don't think it would have changed how i planned this - except perhaps to ask for november.

and, i'm back to wondering if the woman downstairs has left or not.

that's something else i'll know in a few weeks. and, if she's gone, i could potentially appeal - to buy time.

as of right now, i intend to pay the balance of my rent on sept 1st, which is $50. and, if i appeal, i will pay rent for oct 1st, too.

their balance is about to be paid down.....