There is a reason why apartment hunting has always been easy for me. Several reasons actually, but the big one is that I just want to get it done with, so I know. I like to have an idea of what the future is going to look like. Not in an "I've got a Five Year Plan" sort of way. I just mean that, for whatever strange reason, I like to know where my future will be taking place. In order to satiate this desire, I have historically just grabbed up the first apartment I saw that may possibly have been somewhat suitable for me. You would think I would have learned to be more discerning when my first "apartment hunt" brought me to the suburbs. Dublin Ohio, for crying out loud. Home of Wendy's and the Memorial Tournament. And lots and lots of chain restaurants. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Fortunately, it's never really come back to bite me in the ass the way you would expect, even after employing the same strategy with the six apartments I lived in post-suburbia. I've ended up living in some fairly decent apartments in some really cool neighborhoods. Maybe that's why I never learned. Now that we have entered House Hunting Mode, I'm having some difficulty getting into the right frame of mind. Whereas previously the activity of apartment hunting involved little more than looking at the rent, checking my bank account, and making sure that the place has a working toilet, now I need to worry about things like potential renovations, surrounding property (created_by, alias, sectionid, catid, metakey, metadesc, state, urls, introtext, `fulltext`, title, title_alias, created, created_by_alias, modified, modified_by) VALUES, and exactly how big the hot water tank is.

It feels like January and I have seen just about every house on the market over the course of the last week and, being the guy who wants to find something immediately, it's been a little discouraging. It seems like every place we look at has something we love about it, but we can't find one complete house embodying all of our requirements. It helps that we have three months until our lease is up in our apartment, but I think we both just really want to get the process on the road so we know what we're working with.

Four more houses on the schedule for tonight. Maybe we should just grab up the first one, to get it done with.