Looking for a new apartment..

So the time has come to look for a new apartment. There are a few websites that I check just about every day for a number of things. Craigslist, Hotmail, Twitter, and on occasion Ebay, and Youtube. Well I've been checking Craigslist religiously to see if there's apartments available. What we're looking for is a five bedroom apartment. Let's start off that one roommate wanted to go with the cheapest place possible which thank god someone talked him out of. Let's just jump to my experience today with the grand apartment search and where it landed us. We've seen pictures of the inside and none of the outside. Not only that but the neighborhood isn't that great. What I've tried to do is give up what I want (with a little fight, of course) and just let it go where it needs to go. Today we check out the apartment and one roommate says the place looks like it's ready to fall apart. So we check out a second place and it was kind of tiny. Well let's just say I wasn't ready to completely give up the search though it was looking a little grim. Whatevs.. I sent an email to a bunch of people with 5 bedroom apartments and got a bite (so to speak). So while it's looking a little grim at the second place I make a phone call to someone that attempted to reach me while I was at work and wanted to talk about the 5 bedroom I saw online. He says the HOUSE has 5 bedrooms is upper and lower, the rent is $1200 which was lowered from $1450 because on both apartments at the same price he had people ready to sign and they bailed at the last minute. He said they belong to a neighborhood association so snow removal and lawn care is taken care of. He said all 5 bedrooms are big as well as the living room, dining room, and kitchen. All the time he's telling me this I'm doing the happy dance. He said he has two apartments and the one we want sounds absolutely amazing. He said if you guys like barbeques this is the place for that too. It has the perfect yard and best front porch. Ok so we set up appointments to check out the place tomorrow. With the 4 roommates we have now it'll be 600 per person up front. If we get a 5th person it'll be 480 up front. But upon re-reading the ad it says the lease is for 9 months only. Does that mean if we want to stay past 9 months we can't?? We'll see.. Though looking back on that last thought it seems ridiculous. We're gonna check it out tomorrow and ask all the questions we like. It may just be an excellent house or its gonna be crap. off to bed. oh and one other thing. I remembered that my last not-date with dave was breakfast last Thursday and it was fun. I actually referred to it this time as a date and he was ok with that. I'm not even sure he noticed.. I sent it to him in a text and just said "so our breakfast date is still on right?" and he replied with yes. But after our breakfast not date we set up 2 more not-dates.. potentially dates, and he paid for the food. So me being the guy I am said ok well I'll leave a tip and on a 19 dollar check left the waitress a 10 dollar tip.. And even that I felt like I was shorting her. Eh.. I'm gonna hang with him again this week then dinner next week with some "parent" types, as it was put to me. Ok off to bed. Lighter note: not feeling so bad today.. the past 2 days were rough.