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The landlord situations have been resolved. The owner of the new place relented on asking for both March and April's rent before move-in in March, so we dropped off March's rent and a signed lease. Now we just have to set up a time to meet the owner and get the keys. The current landlords apparently didn't say exactly what they meant in the phone message. What they said in voice mail: "About that pro-rated rent for March? We can't give it to you because you didn't give us a vacancy notice." What they apparently meant: "About that pro-rated rent for March? We can't give it to you until you give us something in writing saying you're leaving, but once you drop off a note in the office we can give you that number." That's, uh, not quite the same thing. I must say that C. has been absolutely stellar with dealing with the realtor and the sales office here and I'm very grateful. I would've gone in and handed them their heads while C. was the voice of moderation, in an unusual turnabout.

Speaking of moving, if anyone wants to build up moving karma and earn free food/beer and my eternal gratitude, I think I want to try to get a truck on Saturday the 20th and move the furniture (I'd be tickled to get the Budget truck that has the "It is perfectly acceptable to swear at heavy pieces of furniture" graphic on the side); hopefully some number of boxes will already be moved since I'm going to take a few days off starting the 17th to deal with things. Moving on Saturday will allow for a Sunday to recuperate and some extra time to do the final cleaning of the current place.