The Good

I'll cut to the chase.
Although I'd like to be all poetic and suspenseful, Adi only allots me a short amount of time for personal use. :)
This apartment is a dream come true for us.

*It's across the avenue from cheider. Just half a block walk, instead of a mile!
*It's TWO FLOORS! We have the basement and the first floor. The first floor is slightly smaller than our old apartment. The dining room is the same size, the kitchen is bigger, the bathroom is bigger, the two bedrooms are smaller, and there is no third bedroom.
*The basement is half finished, and is a little smaller than the first floor. It's actually the same size as the second floor (another family will be renting that). The first floor had the kitchen and bathroom added on, so the basement and second floor don't have those areas. There are two storage rooms in the basement, two gigantic closets, a laundry room, and a very large main room. The laundry room has the boilers in it, and the landlord said he will build a wall around them for safety. He hasn't done it until this past Friday. That means we weren't able to let Mel into the basement for the first month living here. That was so inconvenient. But now we let him in there and put his stuff there, too. It's so freeing to have the litter box out of the kitchen!
*It's on a dead end street. That's awesome in more ways than one. We are the last house on the block, so we have full view of the freight trains that pass by a couple of times a week. For a couple of train-obsessed boys, it's heaven! It's also a quiet street where I can let the kids walk around without worry.
*We have a GIANT yard. That's the thing that sold us on this place. Seriously. There is a front porch that is big as it is, but then we also have a nice sized cemented area right outside our side door, a long path where the boys ride their scooters, a large area with soil that can be made into a garden, a parking space for at least two cars, a 13'x13' area full of sand where we will put up a climber, and a long back yard full of soil where we are attempting to grow grass.
*There are two bathrooms! It's so convenient not to have to wait your turn anymore.

It's also easier to go in and out because we are on the first floor, so no dragging kids up and down stairs. But with the good, there must be some bad as well, which I will post about next time.