Apartment hunting

What a horrible title for my blog. No, I'm not looking for a new place for us to live (not yet, but we are living miracle to miracle paying bills around here). My grandmother is looking for an apartment. This means that I am doing the work to find something that fits her needs, and then going to get her to show her the place, then she says yes or no from there. So far I have only shown her one place that fit close to her criteria, and she turned that one down.

I really don't mind doing the looking, and I understand her desire for something just right. I hate moving, and I know it won't be fun for her either. Still, shopping for a senior apartment with the kids along has proved to be difficult. So many people don't like that I have two toddlers along and want to make sure that I understand that we are not welcome. This irritates me, since I am quite clear that my grandmother is the one needing the apartment, not me. So basically I try to do things over the phone or on the internet, but that doesn't always work to find out everything.

I don't think I want her to live somewhere that wants to make me and my kids feel unwelcome anyway. Part of the reason why I am doing the searching is because she wants to live out here by us so I can take her places and take care of her easier. If I am doing that, my kids will be around. I don't want to have problems with that later. I just think that if I am clear that it is for my grandmother, and she doesn't get around very well so she wants me to check things out before going to check the place out herself, I shouldn't get an attitude out of people.

The one place that I showed my grandma was a place that I visited with my mother. I guess she looks like she could be shopping for an apartment for her mother more than I look like I am shopping for my grandmother. I was there, and the twins, so either their attitude was just better than others, or they believed my mom more than the others believed me.

Hopefully I'll find somewhere soon. My grandma isn't in a rush, but she does want to move or at least know where and when she is moving soon. Personally, I don't like her neighborhood that she is in right now, so I am in a hurry. If you read my husband's blogs you know that there's some horrible things that go on around there. It wasn't too bad when she moved in, but over the past 17 years the place has gone downhill. It is difficult to find somewhere in her price range that fits her criteria, though. Of course, that is almost every apartment hunter's problem, right?