An Introduction

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down… No, I’m just joking!

Well, this is a story about my life. It’s an on going story, so I can’t say for sure it won’t be flipped turned upside down, but I really hope it doesn’t go that way.

I’m 21. I have a full time job. I have a boyfriend of 3 and a bit years, and we have just moved into our first home together. My story is all about how we’re growing up and how we’re dealing with all that life throws at us. It is so hard for young people growing up the ‘right way’ these days because every single person has an opinion on how you should be living. And every single person likes to voice their opinions to you, be it positive or not. In my case, they’re mostly not.

Over the past few months, we have been planning our move. We didn’t really have a clue what we were doing (and we still don’t to be honest). But here is what we have figured out so far:

-      - Some house will NOT be as nice as they look in photos

       - Administration fees ARE expensive

-      - DON’T try to move everything you own in one day

-      - You DO have more in your tiny box room that you could have ever imagined

-      - Things WILL go wrong

-      - But you WILL get through them

After weeks of looking through houses and apartments on Rightmove, we finally found the cutest cottage style terraced house in a village in Wrexham. Now, this is a little further out than ideal, and I wasn’t sold on a terraced house.

Side note – We are just renting at the minute, so finding something 100% perfect wasn’t essential.

But, after viewing the house, seeing the amazing view and having a drive through the neighbourhood, it was an absolute no brainer. We called the estate agents on the same day and requested for all the forms to be sent over. Again, at this point, I want to stress I had no clue what I was doing. Although I have moved out before, this felt like a whole different experience, as I haven’t directly dealt with this all before. I want to stress for anyone that hasn’t done this before and is worried about it all, just ask questions. Don’t be embarrassed or afraid. These people deal with new tenants who have no idea every day. Their job is to help you.

One thing that always gets on my nerves with young people and our elders giving this advice that we NEVER ask for, they always tell us and make us believe that companies will try to rip us off because we are young and naïve. No. I have never experienced this. If you deal with a reputable company, why would they try to rip you off? I don’t understand. We need to have more trust in people.

Anyway, as I was saying, don’t be scared, you can do it and everyone is there to help.

The next stage was filling the initial application form in and sending it back. This was the easy part.

Once the landlord had accepted, we then had a second set of forms to fill in. This is also where the stupidly expensive admin fees come into play. Why do we have to pay £120 each for someone to do a credit check on us and get in touch with our employers? Reluctantly, we sent the money off and filled in all our forms.

Side note – If you’re new to this, you will need to provide wage slips, work contracts and an employee reference.

All forms sent through, now for the dreaded W A I T . . .

It felt like months went by. Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating a little, but seriously, it felt like ages!

The best moment is when they tell you that you’ve been accepted!! We couldn’t have been happier that moment. It felt like everything was finally falling into place. After 3 years of being an hour away from each other and only seeing each other for 2 days a week, it was like the world was finally giving us our time to be utterly and eternally happy.