Our scheduled date to move into our house was October 1st. Collin's job was going to lend us temporary furniture (i.e. a bed, closets, drawers, table, chairs, etc.) until we received our household goods. The day before we were moving in, Marisa received a phone call around 3 p.m. from a woman who said they would not be delivering any furniture to us on the 1st. She said they did not have any money to pay the contractors. That caused some problems. So that night after Collin got off work we rushed to buy a mattress. Thankfully, some of our friends let us borrow sheets and towels but we were still left living out of suitcases. Remember, German homes do not have closets.
During the first week, our landlord replaced the carpet in the second and third floors with hardwood flooring. We were very happy! Our house no longer has any carpet. It was unpleasant having workers in our home around the clock, but it was nice to have the dirty smelly carpet replaced. Our house smelt really bad. We are still trying to get rid of the smell.
We also had painters and no heat. It's in the 40s at night here, so it gets quite cold. Finally, a week later our landlord had someone out to repair the heating system.
Another surprise we discovered in our house was that we had mice! Marisa is scared of them and we both were very unhappy to discover that they lived in our new home. Collin cleared out the refrigerator and we cleaned and cleaned. We caught two and have not seen any holes. The previous renters said they saw one and thought that was all there was and got it. We hope there are no more.
Our household goods finally arrived a day early on October 6th. The workers were finishing installing the last of the floors and painting, but at least we received our things, but we still have no closets. While the movers were moving our furniture inside our house our washing machine flooded our basement and turned our clothes brown. Collin spent an hour and a half mopping the basement while Marisa took the clothes to a laundromat. Our dryer also was not working. We had clothes in the dryer for for 5 hours and they were still soaking wet.
We hope to have internet and a home phone by October 20th. We are now unpacking boxes and getting ready to go to London for the weekend. We will get our wardrobes (closets) on Friday. It will be nice to have a place to hang some clothes.
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