Homeless

As you may have seen from our latest video, Ricky and I have been homeless since coming back to Utah from San Jose. Fortunately, my parents always welcome us in to stay in their basement (my old bedroom) which is filled to the brim with our stuff. It is so cluttered with my parents’ random stuff and all of our belongings, that I might go crazy. 

Ricky started school this week and has been commuting to Provo. My job doesn’t start until next week. I have been reaching out to people for housing all week, and we have been looking all summer. The demand for married housing in Provo is absolutely ridiculous!!! Throughout the summer, I checked the BYU housing page each day to try to get back into Wyview, or even Wymount. We REALLY wanted Wyview again, but I only saw two Wyview posts all summer! Every day at 4:00 pm, when new apartments would become available, I would try to snag one but they always went way too fast! The page was so slow and I imagined hundreds of other couples were doing just the same thing as me. I even recruited my parents to log-in to our account and try too. I guess others always clicked faster or had faster internet. 

With more disappointment each day we tried and failed to get BYU housing, Ricky and I soon decided we needed to look into off-campus housing as well. This proved just as difficult. There is a whole Facebook group dedicated to connecting married families to available housing. Every sale post got dozens of comments with people exclaiming they’re interested and inquiring about how to get an application. Somehow, I always called too late and the apartments were always sold. I spent hours looking at KSL, Craigslist, and Rentler trying to find decent places in Provo for us to live. Once we were back in Utah, we spent our Saturdays going to Provo to tour places and get in touch with landlords. 

I am still searching for apartments and looking into any leads we come across, giving Ricky addresses of places he should go check out before coming home from school each day. This whole experience has been so stressful and frustrating! Oh, and since Ricky commutes, he said it took him FORTY minutes to find parking at BYU on the first day of class. That is crazy! Especially since he is a grad student and can park in G lots. 

I am kind of extremely frustrated with BYU. I imagine they are at least somewhat aware of how bad this housing problem is. I was curious and looked to see if BYU single-student housing was just as bad as married housing. Even now, with school already started, there are still spots available for single students in Heritage, Helaman, AND Wyview! That makes me so mad, because Wyview was built to be all family housing, and I don’t know why they changed it to be half single-student housing.