Hillary and I have been looking for houses since we decided to go to Union. However, Barbourville, Kentucky has obviously never heard of the internet. No matter what configuration of "houses for rent" we put into Google, we came up empty every time! We tried a different method and my momma and dad called the Chamber of Commerce lady and she gave them some telephone numbers of people she knew with rental property. So, we started calling to see if anything was available. Luck would have it, that all houses were already rented. Hillary and I were so disappointed. We really wanted to live in a house so we could make it our "home." No matter what you do to an apartment, it never really feels like home. AND being older, we really didn't want to have to put up with the noise and nonsense from the underclassmen haha.
My dad has this number for a guy named Tim. So, he gave him a call and left him a message saying we were looking for rental property and to give us a call back. He was one of many my dad had called and it was hard to keep numbers straight, but that night my dad received a call from Barry. He said he was with a Catholic church in Barbourville and they had a rental house they were redoing. He gave all the details to my dad and it seemed PERFECT!
This past Friday Hillary, her mom, and step-dad Jamey headed up there to look at that house and to see what else they could find. They looked around at a few other places but everything was already rented up except a trailer. The trailer was nice, but they wouldn't allow dogs (which means my Reebok couldn't come) and we weren't allowed to paint or anything. So, after their trip up there it was down to the church house or the trailer. My parents left this morning to head up there to take a look for themselves, so a decision could be made and a deposit could be put down.
My parents went up to the Catholic church's house to meet Barry in person and to take a look around. After viewing the house, Barry asked how my dad ended up with his number. He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket showing Barry all the numbers he had and told him that the Chamber of Commerce lady had given him a whole bunch of numbers. Barry thought it was odd that she knew of him and the church having a house for rent. But neither one of them really though much of it. So, my parents then went to eat and dad pulled out the paper with all the numbers on it to see if he could find Barry's number. He got to looking and didn't see it. So, he looked at his phone to see the number that Barry was calling from. And get this... my dad did NOT have Barry's number. Barry and Tim had the same last 4 digits in the same order except the last 2 were reversed. So, when my dad was supposed to be calling Tim, he reversed the last 2 numbers and actually called Barry! TRUE STORY! My momma said it was divine intervention that we were supposed to live in the church house haha.. It really is crazy that he called the wrong number and actually got someone with rental property available. It definitely is fate!
Anyways, my parents are still up there and are going to take a look around some more tomorrow. They said that they think they've covered everything but couldn't find any other possibilities. Hopefully, a decision will be made and Hillary and I will officially have a house in Kentucky! We can't wait!
This is the house by the Catholic church that will hopefully be our new home!
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