Our home at Douglas St. St Lucia

As at 19 of March we have sent in 10 applications to rental agents. So far almost 7 applications has been rejected. Bengang jugak la bila dengar news tu. Sometimes the agents called, to inform us that our appointments has been cancelled because" ....there has been an application submitted..." an application submitted!!!. But why when we sent in our application we have to wait for others to submit before they process the applications. Why we are not the only eligible applicant? Why is it we have to wait for others? Why???

So on the 19th, we kinda have a break from house hunting... we have done our best... 10 applications... more than 20 house viewing appointments.... Hours, days are spent looking for a house.... so now we leave it to Allah... Because Allah knows what is best for us.... And He does... because today, when we took our day off of house hunting...without our knowing of coz.. Allah has answered our prayer... but before that let me tell you what happened before we received the good news...

Rewind.. on sat, 17th, we have 4 appointments... The first is at Douglas St, St Lucia... Actually our appointment for this unit is on Monday, 19... But the agent called us on that Sat morning, asking if it is possible for us to come on the Sat. We agreed, and that was the 1st house we saw that day. I fell in love with it immediately... honestly... and I kinda have a hunch that Allah is showing me that this is the house. Although the rent is the max that we can afford ($300 pw), but with a 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom with separate loo, kitchenette, 1 laundry room, spacious living room that could be split into two area, dining area, 2 balconys, 1 store room located at ground floor and 1 garage that could fit in 2 smaller cars... we are more than satisfied. Plus no pet allowed in this unit. So we dont have to worry about dog's hair. So we submitted our application to Ray White (the agent) . Then we have another appointment at Bank St, West End. It is a Queenslander. Very nice, very clean with new paint job, polished timber floor. The rental cost is $250. I like the layout. But I like the Douglas St much better, in terms of space, easy access, location. But we submitted the application anyway, who knows our luck right. We didnt want to miss any chance that we got. Our last viewing is at Barnsley St, West End. It is a nice town house, but far from public transport.

So comes Monday the 19th, as I said before, we kinda take a break from house hunting, and we went to RTD to register the car. A Daihatsu Curoe that we bought on the 14th, from a private seller in Gold Coast, yup we went to Gold Coast to get it. Back to the registration story, because we dont have any permanent address, so we couldnt register the car. But we managed to get our 18+ card done. Then we went straight home. It is 3 something in the afternoon, both of us are exhausted, yaya were sleeping, then my phone ringing. As I was lazy to get it, I just let my voicemail recorded the message. But I couldnt help wondering who it is from, so I dialed the voicemail #, and listened to the message left by Fabio from Ray White...and it is not a bad news... at first I thought it is... but listening carefully...what... our application has been accepted....wow..... and at that second, atang's phone rang.... Guess who's calling, Fabio, and confirming what I have heard before.... We were soooooooo happy....Alhamdullillah..... hey I cried.... Thank you Allah......

So we have live here for 4 weeks now... we have paid 2 times 2 weeks rent.... so see pics taken of our home at http://fazidelias.fotopages.com/
Our bond will last on Sept. But I really hope we could continue living here until I finishes my study. But if the rent increases unreasonably, we have no choice but to move out.