The World of Joel Szerlip » The Colony Newport Beach http://worldofjoel.com It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:56:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Jenn and I Have Offically Gotten the Keys to Our New Place http://worldofjoel.com/home/apartment/jenn-and-i-have-offically-gotten-the-keys-to-our-new-place/ http://worldofjoel.com/home/apartment/jenn-and-i-have-offically-gotten-the-keys-to-our-new-place/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:37:36 +0000 Joel http://www.worldofjoel.com/?p=519 Who would have thought it would be rather easy to rent an apartment? I always thought that it would be sort of a long tedious process with a ton of paper work. Well the paper work was all there but we just told them how much we made a month, they checked our credit, and a week later they had our keys, and we were moving in. So the official move in date was yesterday April 11th, 2009. We left Riverside at about 9:00am and picked up my brother and headed down to Newport Beach (about an hour drive). When we arrived Jenn and I did a quick paper signing session, and they handed over our keys to the place, our mail keys, stickers for our cars to enter past the guards (gated entry), and keys for the pool/gym. After that we were off and running into our new place.

Here are some pictures of our one bedroom apartment, nice and empty!

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Our Entry Way/Kitchen

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Our Fireplace

The Colony Newport BeachMaster Bedroom

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Our View From the Apartment

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Our Patio

So we did the tour, and we showed my brother Jake around the property and we were back out headed to get some groceries. Having brought next to nothing with us (just some wine I had bought on past Europe trips) we headed out to stock up on the essentials.Following the stocking up process we got some In & Out.

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Good Old In & Out

After lunch I made sure to put together a walk through of our place so that I could see how it looked empty and then in a month or so look at the progress. So here is a video I shot of the entire walk through.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

So we brought back the groceries and then we were off again out to a local Ikea where we stocked up on dishware, utensils, and some art work. I will not go into much of this because next week we are having both my brother Jake and Sister Amy over for a little apartment warming day, and then the following weekend we will be getting back to furnishing the place. So I will show more updates on the apartments when more of it gets filled with furniture!

]]> http://worldofjoel.com/home/apartment/jenn-and-i-have-offically-gotten-the-keys-to-our-new-place/feed/ 0 Jenn and I Have Rented Our First Apartment at The Colony in Newport Beach http://worldofjoel.com/home/apartment/jenn-and-i-have-rented-our-first-apartment-at-the-colony-in-newport-beach/ http://worldofjoel.com/home/apartment/jenn-and-i-have-rented-our-first-apartment-at-the-colony-in-newport-beach/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:43:40 +0000 Joel http://www.worldofjoel.com/?p=513 So this past weekend was a big weekend for both Jenn and I. We have not yet lived on our own so we have been highly anticipating the day where we would rent our buy our first place. Well we decided that we wanted to rent an apartment for a while and get settled after getting married in September before thinking of buying a place. We have gone through so many different plans, and so many different options that we are just happy to have landed a place. We chose to rent an apartment at The Colony in Newport Beach a small community across the street from Fashion Island and about 2 miles from the beach. It is a little of a hike in terms of driving from work, but we cannot wait to enjoy the weekends down there!

Our original plan was to rent an apartment in July, but we got an e-mail earlier in the week saying they had a deal for 2 months free, so we couldn't pass it up. We rented a large 1 bedroom which is 1,008 square feet with granite counter tops, crown molding, a fireplace, all new appliances, and a really nice view. Its a top floor apartment so we are hoping that detracts from any extra noise that may come from the apartment life.

So we went down yesterday, Saturday April 4th and talked with one of their leasing agents who took us on a tour of the property and showed us a few different one bedrooms. We chose ours because it seemed to be the best maintained, and had the best view. We signed the papers, and found out today that we were approved and ready to move in April 11th. We don't have any great pictures of the place yet but plan on a lot of shots next weekend of the place nice and empty. Jenn and I have nothing to furnish the place with so that is going to eat up a lot of our time and money over the next few "free" months to furnish the place, and I will posting progress pictures throughout the process. Anyways to start with here is the floorplan!

The Colony at Newport BeachI will be back a week from now with pictures of the place without anything in it, and will continue to post pictures and videos of the progress of the place!

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