Walk Through, Take One

On Friday, we saw our apartment for the first time in over a month.  Despite the general craziness about the condo structuring sill on-going, everyone involved is pretty confident that things will still move forward.  (That's a relief.)  So we had our first walk-through since the apartment has been finished.  There will be two more along the way, one in several weeks, and the final right before closing.

It was a little surreal.  For one, this is the first time we've seen the apartment finished.  The last time we went to the building, there were no appliances in the kitchen, not quite everything had been painted, and many of the little finishing touches had yet to be installed.  The hallway on our floor had no carpet or paint as well, and truly felt like a construction zone.  This time, nearly everything was in place, and it looked like a real apartment.

Our apartment, which was the other surreal part of it.  We've been looking at apartments for a long time, and have seen so many, and have invested ourselves in more than a couple.  Is this one really ours?  No, not technically yet, but it's darn close.

For now, the questions are moving away from "What will our monthly expenses be?" and "Is this a good location?" and instead becoming "What color should this room be?" and "Along which wall will we put the couch?"  And that's close enough for me.