Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"What a blow"

Sorry for the title of this post, it's an inside joke with Paul that some of you may know! Anyway, we do have bad news...So Paul has been working with the HR lady from Bastian Material Handling to figure out our housing situation while we are in Indiana. She asked us to keep our belongings in storage for 6 months since the Air Force will pay for it and instead of doing a "full-didy" (moving all your own belongings yourself) and making a lot of extra money, we scheduled to have professional movers come and pack and store all of our things. She told us it was standard to live in a fully furnished apartment while Paul is in training. Paul repeatedly asked her if we would have to help with the rent or any other expenses and over and over she told us "no." Anyway, she got a different job and left the company and yesterday Paul gets an email asking if we can bring our own furniture to Indiana because the furnished 2 bedroom apartment is $93 per day. We obviously start to freak out because the movers are coming in 3 days and we now have to figure out what to do. We called Uhaul and other moving trucks to see if we could reserve a bigger one and none could guarantee a truck by the date we needed it. Also the Air Force already payed the moving company and if our weight is less than what they already estimated then we would have to pay the difference. So yesterday our plan was to have everything sent to Indiana instead of Atlanta and Bastian would store our belongings in one of their warehouses and then we could have access to the furniture and things we would need while there. Although there was still a lot of unanswered questions with this plan: who pays for our things to be moved to Atlanta once training ends, where do we live until our belongings are delivered to Indiana, once they are delivered to the warehouse, how do we move the big furniture to the apartment, and so forth...Well today they informed us that they warehouse is no longer an option and so we have to live in a furnished apartment. The rent is $2,600 per month and they will be 60% and they want us to pay 40% so $1,000 is what they are asking us to pay. We were so excited to be able to save a lot while we are there and now we are throwing more money away to rent. It makes me sick to think of how much money we have lost through this whole process. We could have made money moving our own things, but we thought it would balance out by not paying rent for 6 months. I really do feel sick to my stomach!!! Anyway, the only plus is that we just signed a contract stating that if we do find a house before the 6 months are up, they will pay the entire rent so that we can make house payments. It just makes me so mad that this is all their fault and we are paying for it. If they would have told us to bring our own furniture we would have planned accordingly! I guess they have done this in the past but only with single men and a one bedroom is a lot cheaper. Anyway, sorry for the boring post. It has been therapeutic for me to write this all out and get it out of my head. I am reading a book about losses in life and how you just have to let go of things and this is just another one of those things in life. What is $10,000 in the grand scheme of things!

4 comments:

  1. Wow Kristine...that majorly stinks! If you are not sure of the answer..why don't these people ask instead of just say the way they think it is. Obviously it causes a lot of problems and heartache. I'm sorrry to hear that Kristine. I love you!

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  2. Man that sucks! I'm sorry about that, I hope you get it all figured out.

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  3. Super bummer. But when you get to Indy and get settled- we should come up for a long weekend- or a short one :-) It is only 4.5 hours away. Hooray!!! And I've only been there once, but I kinda loved it! VERY good restaurants and also a VERY cute kids clothing store. Hayden will be well dressed (not that she isn't now!).

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