house hunting - part 2

yesterday and today we went for some serious house hunting spree, managed to view about a total of 6 houses..hmm mmg tak banyak sgt la tapi that's mainly because most agencies and landlords wants fixed term i.e. from september 07 to july 08. so as we didnt have much choice, we finally narrow it down to two..one is a big 5 bedroom house about 20 minutes walk from the city centre and uni and the other is a lovely 4 bedroom house, also about 15 - 20 minutes to the city and uni. both are about the same price and both have almost all the things we were looking for...

so now the process of application and administration follows, we need to find a guarantor, as none of us is working and they are wary about non-working people, which is kinda illogical for us as; we cant rent the students' accomodation as they require one term (as per above timing) and therefore had to resort to local rental agencies and had to go through all these credit checks and what nots because we are not working..like duh, we're students! its a vicious vicious cycle huhu

but that's the way the system works here so there's nothing much we can do but follow it.. other wise we'd be homeless come July :p

i'll let you know the outcome of the hunt and the process of all the learning the uk city council taxes and applying for the parking permit and understanding the water and gas and electricity rates and wat nots once im more familiar with it...till then, im off to work, cheers!