My family — including my toddler and two pets — lived in an extended stay hotel for 3 months while house-hunting - Business Insider
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The author and her family stayed in an extended-stay hotel for nearly three months while looking for a rental.
After eight years in the same home, my family needed a change. We planned to rent while we built a new house, imagining a brief transition between the two. Instead, the rental market had other plans. Apparently, it was a very popular time to be looking for a new place to live. With multiple families vying for each house, landlords could be choosy. Being self-employed with dogs put us near the bottom of the list. In the meantime, we were living in an extended-stay hotel. Still, I wasn't discouraged because…well, how long could it take to find a match? What I thought would be a two-week hotel stay stretched into nearly three months. During that time, my husband, our 1-year-old daughter, Talia, two dogs, and our cat learned what it meant to live with little space. More surprisingly, hotel living changed how I parented — and eventually, my views on home. We took what we needed, and the rest went in storageWe moved everything we owned into two storage units, and I packed for a short stay.
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