House Hunting With The Red Fox

Welcome all to a new episode of the obviously popular show House Hunting with The Red Fox. What? Never heard of it you say? Well that is just crazy, we have been on OWN for at least one season. Sure we may not get super high ratings but we are a good core show. As you may imagine by the title the host me, The Red Fox, hunts for houses. It started when our studio got a letter saying our lease had expired, and we had two options, sign a new lease or move. We decided to go out and explore the variety of options that comes with that somewhat restricted freedom. I say restricted as if I cannot locate a new place by the end of the month and I dont sign the new lease my rent could and increase and that is not ideal for obvious reasons. So now that you have the premise for the show ingrained in your mind let's continue and talk about the hunt.

Our newest hunt was an uneventful one to say the least, I was unable to find anything that I thought man I need to sleep here for the next year or so. I looked online and in papers and it was all just blah, nothing was exciting. I tried to keep a base price range in rent so even if it is more than I currently pay I can afford it and be able to live comfortably. That aspect lead to some unfavorable prospects. Every place I was able to see pictures of was just rough. Old appliances, horrible cabinets, ugly carpet, and so on. Granted it's not like I am buying a house, I am looking for an apartment to rent. I still would like to find something nice that if I invite people over to, I don't have this fear that they are judging my place. It is the reason I rarely entertain in my current place. I never feel, no matter how clean it is, that it is ever clean enough. I have had girls over and that is an exhausting song and dance of making sure stuff is stupidly clean, because lets face it despite my outward exterior and sometimes personality, I am a gentleman at heart. Raised to be a certain way with guests, you know be a good host. I just always feel that I have people look at me differently if something isn't super clean when they visit. I still have yet to have my parents over to my place, since I moved, and that was years ago. The sad fact is the place isn't all that bad when it's clean, but my brain just says not good enough. So when I look at pictures of these places that look, far less desirable than where I currently reside, I just don't feel it.

Do I really need to move at all? I mean sure I would like a nicer place, but is that me or the place. I can spruce where I live now and give it a fresh look. Get some new drapes, maybe a nice rug, new blinds. It can be a quaint little place if care is shown to it. When I think about small changes I can make to improve my current standing, I am torn on leaving it.

Another factor that makes the hunt increasingly difficult is the cat. It seems everywhere I look all I see is Pets:No. I have said this elsewhere it drives me crazy that I can go to the same place and bring kids that can do much more than the super chill, cat that is both declawed and spayed. But to places that want me to pay money to live there, she is essentially Hitler to them. If I didn't have her to worry about this would be a non issue of course, but I love the damn thing so I am stuck in a way. A friend suggested I try and register her as an emotional support animal. Which while that sounded like an interesting idea, it required a therapists note to be valid as a fair housing act thing. I don't think I want to open the can of worms and crazy that might come from seeing a therapist.

So I sit here typing, torn on what to do. Should I stay or should I go? The question will loom over me until I make a decision. At this time I clearly don't have the answer, I wont let it bring me down though. Hell, if all else fails I still have my place so I will not have to worry about where I will sleep.

Not bad for your first episode of House Hunting with The Red Fox, stay tuned for future episodes and who knows maybe our second season will be like Interior Design with The Red Fox. Until then, happy hunting.