by Adam Dawson
We are getting a roommate! It’s just a temporary situation as one of our friends’ friends is moving to Austin next month. Emily’s been bugging me to rent out our extra bedroom for a while. Our house floorplan is ideal since the extra bedroom is directly inside the front door and has an attached bathroom. But I have been resisting. We had roommates once before and it was pretty tough. Also, I want our extra bedroom to be available for people who come visit us since we live so far away from many of our family and friends. But alas, this hasn’t exactly been the Field of Dreams…”if you have an extra bedroom, they will come,” hasn’t really been the case for us. It’s been empty since we moved in.
The roommate (Emily has met her, but I haven’t yet) will be moving in during the middle of December and rent until the end of January. And wouldn’t you know it, as soon as we committed to this, Emily has a friend coming to visit, and her parents also planned to stay with us over Christmas. So we are going to have a full house in December!
I’m glad we can help somebody moving to Austin get on their feet. I expect that they will pay some rent but not a lot. Hopefully we can apply whatever rent they pay to the Race to $15k fund. And it will be a good test to see if we could handle having a roommate on a permanent basis.
