A bit of good luck

Our escrow situation was a huge setback. It really was unexpected and we have been trying to recover from it. We have tried to get back on track with our condo being back on the market, but it still upsets me. Our recent trip to Colorado was a trip of many tasks. One of the main tasks was to find a place for WS to live. He'll be moving to Colorado in 10 days. We decided that we needed a short term rental. We need a place that's not too expensive. Since we will have to continue to pay our mortgage until we sell our condo, we really need something affordable. We also need to make sure that we aren't locked into a lease. I don't know when we'll buy a place, but we definitely do not want a lease longer than 3 months. This posed a problem to us when we arrived in Denver. We stopped by the Stapleton area to look at apartments. They do not offer short term leases.

While we were in Denver, WS' sister called. She lives in Centennial and knows that we are interested in a short term rental in her area of town. Her husband is the Head of School at an exceptional private school with a great reputation in Denver. A family at his school has a guest house on their property that they offered to let us rent on a month to month basis. I was really sort of unsure of what the guest house would look like, We decided to look at it because basically we had no other options. I have seen other guest houses and most of them are pretty small. I was expecting a smallish house with a kitchenette.

Let me preface this by saying that the location of this family's home is an extremely desirable area called Greenwood Village. Across the main road is Cherry Hills (another prestigious area). We could never, ever afford to live in this location under normal circumstances. It would be like living in Bel Air. The guest house that we will be renting is actually referred to as a gate house. It is really pretty big. It's a 2 level home with three bedrooms (one of them would really be best suited as an office). It has a full kitchen, laundry room, large master with a fireplace, a nice patio, and it's own very, very large yard. The owners of the main house have tennis courts and a pool. They have let us know that we may use the pool and tennis courts (as long as they aren't using them) whenever we would like.

This is the main house:

Private Tennis Courts:

This is our gate house! Pretty big huh?:

Another view of our new home:

Our own yard:

Our living room:

The master:

One of our new neighbors:

We can't believe that we are lucky enough to have found a pretty large place on a great location. The rent is also really reasonable. It's really a pretty ideal place. Also, Greenwood Village is the next town over from Centennial. That is the area where we would like to end up living. Now we'll be able to experience the neighborhood before we buy a place. A little bit of luck during a hard time.