Our Apartment

Per request, I've taken some pictures of our apartment so you all can see where we live! I tried to make a video, but I couldn't figure out how to upload it.


























It's not a big apartment, but It's in a nice part of town, in which we're really happy about. And for those of you that don't know, we have purchased the apartment directly above us, in which we plan to make into one big apartment with the one we live in now. In the meantime, we have rented the one upstairs to two young single adult girls. We're hoping that until we really need the extra space, i.e. children, that we can continue to rent out the upstairs. The problem is, that we have to build a staircase this summer. So we'll have to figure out how to make both floors private. And as a requirement of the county, we will have to build a nice big bathroom where our kitchen and bathroom (toilet) are. Then later, when we have the whole apartment to ourselves, we will open up the kitchen upstairs into an open kitchen and dining room. But in the meantime, after we will have made the bathroom downstairs, we will have to live without a kitchen. We will probably just set up a microwave and hot plate on our dining room table or something. It will be worth it for a year or so to save on rent. Because it's not cheap to own both of these apartments. But it is a huge investment opportunity for us, if we can just manage to figure out how to pay the bills for a couple years. Hopefully Andreas will get a really good job when he's done with his Phd.