Jubal's House Hunt

[Jubal]

To keep you updated on the trials of my seeking a new homeland. 

So far, sent 3 messages, all had replies - am seeing one house later today, one hasn't replied to a subsequent message yet.

Also, just working through the crazy world of spareroom.com and some of the "interesting" things on adverts there...

• The house that advertised "nice desk and professional chair". The nice desk was basically a coffee table.
• I require a female to keep the male/female ratio an even split - why is this a thing?
• All the "No DSS" messages are really unfriendly and offputting. They don't apply to me, but even so.

[comrade_general]

Buy my house I don't want it anymore.

[Jubal]

Unfortunately my search criteria include "within walking distance of the University of Birmingham". Also I don't have enough money to buy a house.

[comrade_general]

[Jubal]

I think I have found a room to live in.

[Cuddly Khan]

A singular room?

[Jubal]

Yes - renting one room in a shared house is basically the only affordable option for someone like me.

[DeepCandle Games]

unless you're going to live in a DIY hobbit hole? (aka, a cave)

[Jubal]

Birmingham is not known for its caves, sadly.

[Glaurung]

I think I have found a room to live in.

Congratulations! I hope it's hospitable, and conducive to working.

[Jubal]

I'm still waiting for the guy to send the paperwork over... I think it should be alright, it's hard to tell with new places at an early stage like this. I think I can confidently say that the room exists, will probably be watertight and have basic water/electricity/internet, and it's on a short let so if it's awful it won't have to be awful for too much of my life.

[comrade_general]

To let = toilet.

[Jubal]

Can confirm, house does have toilet.

[comrade_general]

Yusßßss.

[Jubal]

In fact I found out when I finally got round to looking in the back yard that the house still has its old outdoor toilet; it's never been removed, it's just there in an outbuilding!