The housing ball is finally rolling..

So after a phone call with on post housing and a phone call with our Realtor, the housing ball is finally rolling.

As soon as Tim comes home we will go look at some homes in the Fort Hood area and find one that is perfect for us. Our Realtor is retired military and a friend of Tim's mother, so he told us he'll take care of us. We aren't very concerned with the number of rooms or the square footage, it will be a temporary living arrangement, we are most concerned about location. If I have to pay more for a two bedroom in a safe area, compared to paying the same for a three bedroom in a less safe neighborhood, you best believe I'll let my children sleep in the same room. Shoot, I'm not even against having all four of us in the same room if it means we won't be having the cops circling our block countless times a week!

I have heard from many individuals that Killeen can be a VERY iffy place to live and to make sure the neighborhoods are nice. Thankfully our Realtor works with military families up there on a regular basis and knows all the good places from the bad.

The housing wait for a three bedroom on post is 3-4 months. Tim can't apply for on post housing til he reports and he won't be reporting til a week after he comes home. The shortest lease up that way is 6 months, so we will be finding somewhere to live for 6 months and at the end of our lease we will move on post. The woman that I spoke to earlier today told me that the government has set up an arrangement with the property owners in the surrounding area that they won't allow families to break their leases early to move on post. So if a house was to become available before the end of our lease, they would hold a house for us so the day our lease ended, we could move in.

It's nice that things are falling into place. Now..we just need to get my husband home!