My new home?

I went to see this lovely house this evening that belongs to a friend of a friend of mine. There is an apartment on the ground floor that is simply spectacular - hardwood floors, a fireplace, built in bookcases, closets and storage galore, a huge kitchen, dining room two bedrooms and a three season enclosed porch, all on a park like setting. One bedroom would be used by the owner for an office/guest room, but I am going to negotiate for the larger of the two bedrooms, because frankly, I really want this place. The price is a steal, the setting is gorgeous, there is a huge basement with a washer/dryer so I would no longer have to take out my laundry and the house also has brand new windows, so it is snug and warm as well. I can see myself sitting in the three season porch sipping coffee and reading newspapers while deer trot by. I could actually have enough space to have people over in this place. The larger of the two bedrooms has huge closets that I really need and want and a great view, too. I hope that I can convince them to let me have it. My fear is that the owner will want both upstairs bedrooms, one for an office, one for a guest bedroom, leaving me to occupy a dark, dismal basement room, which I most certainly do NOT want. I hope that I can talk to the guy and work out a deal to maximize my privacy as much as possible. The upstairs tenant would share an entrance, hallway and laundry room with me, but that's perfectly OK with me. I don't expect to see them that often, frankly. I'm just slightly leery of having houseguests on occasion as well as the landlord spending a lot of time there, which I hope that he doesn't. Currently he has a daughter away at college, and I am hoping that in a few years after she graduates that she moves away and leaves a vacant bedroom in his house to use for an office/guest room, and as his other kids grow up and move away, I hope that he abandons the idea of using a room in what would be my apartment for guest quarters and an office. We'll see. I want to see what this guy thinks of my wanting the large bedroom, because that would be my desire. The small bedroom in the house is already made up for guest housing, and if the large bedroom is converted to office space, that's going to leave me with a dilemma for a place to sleep. I don't want to impose on the upstairs tenant for sleeping quarters and I certainly don't want to be banished to a dark and dismal room in the basement that is positively tiny and very cold and unheated. I could not abide that, so I would need to work things out with the landlord to figure out how this is going to work. If nothing else, it will be somewhere to go for a while until I could find something more suitable if both bedrooms end up being off limits. If both bedrooms end up being off limits, I could always make the downstairs space into something resembling an efficiency apartment, with my bed in what would be the dining room, but I really don't want an efficiency apartment if I can possibly avoid that kind of situation.

Still, if this is the best I can do for a while, so be it. Gotta go somewhere and I am rapidly running out of options, and this is probably the best I am going to be able to get anywhere. I hope that I can negotiate for what I want and get it, because this is about as ideal a situation as I am going to find. Beautiful setting, great price, spacious, tons of storage......it's everything I have ever dreamed of having for someplace to call home. I really want to move there and look forward to getting settled in and calling it home. I want, I need to feel safe again. I need to feel like I am going to have somewhere to call my own, to call home, to feel like I can be comfortable and settled again. Since the place is vacant, I am hoping that in the next month to six weeks, I can start moving things over there and slowly get settled in to where by the time the deadline to be out of my current place comes around, I can be ready to say goodbye to one chapter of my life and start a new one in a new home where I may be living for a while. It feels really good to know that I have probably found the best situation for myself and that I can finally stop looking for a new home, knowing that I have probably found what will be my new residence in the coming months, provided that I can convince the landlord to allow me the most privacy possible as well as the privilege of having the larger of the two bedrooms, because I feel that would work best for what I need. If that works out, hello, new house, farewell old one. I will miss my cozy little house so terribly, but it will be nice to settle in to someplace spacious enough to be able to have some real space again. It will be nice to feel like I have a real grown up house, not just a tiny student apartment that has served as home for all these years. I hope that this all works out the way I want it to. To find such a great place and to have to haggle over whether I can use the bedroom of my choice could make it a bit tough, but if they really want a quiet, stable tenant who will be there for a while, they ought to let me have it. Small price to ask for the privilege of having such a beautiful place to live! We'll see if this works.