Highlighter Stars.

We have somewhere to live next year! This is excellent news indeed. Although the house isn’t ready at the moment, by the time we move in it’ll be all fully refirbished and will be all shiny and amazing and like something out of an Ikea catalogue. Say no to shitty student housing!

After the landlords told us yesterday that they were going to be sending out the tenancy agreement that evening, and it was whichever group (out of 3 interested parties) got it back first that got the house, me, Sphie and Mark got back from the house viewing and sat in the kitchen, half playing Monopoly, half listening out for the email alert sound. After 2 false alarms (causing the three of us to almost break our necks running out of the kitchen down the hall to Mark’s room), it finally arrived. Mark printed it, then the 3 of us signed it. Daniel came over and he signed it too, then Mark ran across to Lewes Court Phase 2 to get Ben to sign it, while me, Sphie and Daniel walked after him. We left Daniel to go to the dryness of his flat, and made our way back through the blinding rain (and no, I’m not even exaggerating - we couldn’t actually see where we were going at one point).

Unfortunately, due to the rain, by the time Mark got back to Stanmer, all of the ink had run on the agreement. So we had to print another copy and, since we were already completely soaked through, the three of us traipsed back across to Lewes Court. This time the agreement was safely stored in a plastic folder, which was wrapped in two plastic bags.
When we got back, Mark scanned the signed agreement into his laptop and then went to send it. Should have been simple, right? It wasn’t. The file was too big, and kept crashing Mark’s laptop.
Sphie and I eventually went to bed, but Mark managed to email it to the landlords at quarter to 3 in the morning. And it’s a good job he did, because when Sphie rang up this morning, another group had rung to say they wanted the house. But because we’d already shown that we’d signed the agreement we got the house!

Sphie and Mark went and handed in part of our deposits today, so YES! It’s ours!

Now comes the fun part of who gets what bedroom …