A Happy Problem

5 bed, 2 bath, 1300 square feet.
Much more than $1500 a month. 
But it has a fenced yard for Luna.

 Marty got a call last week from someone in the human resources department. The gist is he has a promise to possibly have an interview at some unknown time and date. This particular job is located not in Texarkana and the HR person told him this would not be a remote position. She wanted to know if that would that be a problem? Given a potential possible interview which might possibly lead to a potential job sounds better than unemployment, Marty gave the party answer of, "That sounds find to me." 

And it more or less is fine. 

However, Marty is under the impression the housing market is coasting in 1998 prices. He is (currently) adamant he will not be burdened by a mortgage and will rent if he has to. That's fine. It won't take him long to figure out paying a landlord's mortgage isn't the best use for our money. Marty is also adamant that he won't pay $1500 a month for rent. And from what I can see, he won't. He'll be paying much more than that. Even the rents in the questionable neighborhoods of this new city seem to align with the rest of the United States. 

Heck, even Texarkana rents are higher than $1500 a month!

Of course, there are several reasons to rent when one moves to a new city. One being to get to know where one wants to live. When we moved to Texarkana, there were as many houses for rent as there were to buy (about three). Plus, there wasn't much city to choose from anyway. 

But this new city has a population five times as large as Texarkana Texas, so there are more properties available--or hopefully will be more properties available. That is, if Marty gets his potential interview, passes muster, gets his second interview and then is offered a job.  

Those are all future-me problems. Right now I'm just keeping my housing search to myself.