Old.
Rustic.
It might appeal to him for a short vacation, but six months? Nah. He’d rather stay in the hotel.
Guess he was a bit fancier than he let on.
“Can I see the other one? I can extend my stay in a hotel for a bit longer if you think something else might come on the market.”
“It’s a tight market on the island,” Stella said. “Apartments might be the only thing to come up and there are waiting lists for them. Any place with more than one bedroom goes fast and people get roommates if they have to.”
She pushed the laptop back to show him another place. Much bigger. Looked like three bedrooms and two baths, two floors.
“How close is this to the water?” he asked scrolling through the pictures. More modern than the last but not anything special.
He supposed any rental wouldn’t have high-end touches not knowing how it would be treated.
“About two blocks. It’s higher on the street so you can see the water in the distance from two of the rooms.”
He flipped through and found those views. Not horrible, but nothing like he had.
Not sure why he thought he’d get that.
This was more about having a place to live while he and Natalie went to the next level in their relationship.
“I’d like to check this one out. Not the first. It won’t fit my needs.”
“We can do that,” Stella said. “Let me just check with the landlords and ensure that the tenants are out.”
“They are still there?”
“They will be there until the end of the month.”
That would leave him two weeks to extend his stay at The Retreat, if he could, or find another hotel. He was positive that wouldn’t be a problem.
It’d be worth it to get this place.
Worst case, he’d get a place off island in Boston. He hoped it didn’t come to that.
Or that Natalie would offer for him to stay with her.
That would be even better.
Though he knew they weren’t there. Not yet.
“That should be doable if I like it.”
“The cost is much higher,” Stella said. “Not sure if you noticed it on the screen.”
He had. More than double the first place. “Not a problem.”
“The landlords would require one month in advance as a deposit. If it’s only a six month lease, rather than a full twelve months, there is an additional fee.”
Geez. Maybe he should be a landlord on this island with the demand.
“That’s fine.”
He went back through viewing the pictures while Stella was texting on her phone.
