The Hunt Continues

     Just to keep you all updated, Jess and I are still looking for a place to live. We are the only ones left in the hostel without a place to go and we are beyond frustrated. I have over 30 names and numbers in my notebook that we have called and struck out with. Today alone, I called 7 people this morning and all their ads have been filled. TAKE DOWN YOUR ADS PEOPLE.
     Yesterday evening we went to look at an apartment before our TLC social. We had spent the entirety of Thursday and Friday looking at apartments, oy vey! This one our boss Emily had given to us as a contact with one room. When we got there, the apartment was beautiful and HUGE. She had one bedroom available immediately which was seriously small. Smaller than my room at the hostel. The woman, Nelly, was asking 180,000 clp a month, which is roughly $360 usd a month, not bad based on our salary, but it was a tiny room for the price. Thankfully it has its own bathroom. At this desperate point in our search, we told her we were taking it! She mentioned that she also had another "big"(read: normal-sized) room that a German girl was occupying, but was going to leave on the 15th of April. It was really nice, but Nelly wanted 280,000 pesos for it!!! Yikes! We all chatted for a while, and she seems so nice, but we told her we couldn't afford that because our maximum budget was 200,000 per person. Jess and I thought if we could lower the price a bit, we could split it between us and switch rooms halfway through so each person got the big room for a while. I asked Nelly if she could lower it to 240,000 and she told me she would think about it overnight.
     This afternoon we went to go look at a place as a backup in case Nelly said no to our offer, and it was nice, but not the right one. They were two brothers and it was another minuscule room, this time for 190,000. We said we were interested, but still held up hope that she would give us the answer we were looking for. An hour later, the guys called us back and told us that someone else snatched it up. Then Nelly called us and said she couldn't meet us that night to talk it over again, that we would have to do it Sunday afternoon instead. As our last options fall apart, we are getting more and more nervous!!! Please please let Sunday bring us some pieza-hunting peace!