House Update

As you can see, I have posted pictures of the farmhouse. The landlord still has some work to do but you can have a general idea of the layout. There are no pictures of the guesthouse because there is still a lot of work to do so I will post those pictures later. I would love to hear what everyone thinks!! I love it when the blog is more interactive and I get feedback from you guys because I miss you all!

I do have a good German yelling story (what would a post be without one, eh?). So I found this apt through an ad in the newspaper and then the immobilien met me and she communicates with the landlord because he speaks English but not a lot of English. A lot of people take this approach when finding housing because there are better houses out there through newspapers.. so I am not the first one (even then later on the base housing inspector would make me feel that I was the first one to ever go about getting a house this way). So after findina a house, housing has to go out and inspect it. The place I found was in an ad that was officially for another military base close by so the immobilien had only really dealt with that base's housing which just so happens to be a lot easier and laid back. So the housing inspection was last Wednesday and I was told that I shouldn't be there. Jump forward to this Monday.

The immobilien calls me to say that she has not heard from the inspector which is odd because they usually get back to the landlord in a day or two. So the immobilien and myself place a few phone calls to figure out what is going on. I called numerous times and the office's phone was busy for hours. Which to me is sorta odd since everytime I go into the office there is no one there and they are NOT busy. But finally the immobilien got someone on the phone and they said that I had to talk to them and I had to come in to talk to them. So I go there and am greeted with this phrase "So you are the troublemaker." Now, I am all about a sarcastic greeting but he was really not happy. He then yelled at me for not being at the house when he was there, paying too much for rent, and finding a place that was this big for someone that was not married or didn't have any kids. So I had to explain to him that I was indeed single, I was indeed sans children, and I was indeed okay spending the money that was given to me by the government to live half way across the world. He was disgusted with me. I am okay with me and my decision.

But I do have to also say how much I like my landlord. They yelled at him too I guess when the inspector was there because things weren't done and he had agreed to take the amount of money that I offered him because it was supposedly too much for the place. But the landlord is really laidback and a nice hardworking German. So I am glad that I have found a German that has proven that Germans can indeed be nice. And my immobilien and me are friends now too.