Moving into our new Home

When we got to Georgia, we stayed in the Value Place Inn, a cheap extended stay hotel. We were there for two weeks while we looked for housing. It was definitely not the best, but, like I said, it was cheap.
Initially, we were hoping to buy a house here in Georgia, but there were very few decent/safe/close-to-post homes listed in the range our budget would allow. The ones that were listed were not worth the risk of buying, since we don't know exactly how long we'll be living here. It could be anywhere from 12 months to 4 years. Mike's schooling will be 12 months (and he hasn't gotten into a class yet, so that time has not started yet) and we are counting on the army keeping him here for his follow-on assignment. All things military are subject to immediate change.
So, we drove around and around and around the Augusta area looking for a decent house to rent. We nearly settled on one when we noticed the name of the street we were passing was the street one of the houses we were interested in purchasing was on. That house was under contract when we got here, so we never got to look at it, and we wanted to drive by to see what we missed. Driving through the subdivision, we found a For Rent by owner sign and decided to call and check it out. The landlord was at the house doing renovations and invited us in at that moment. She had recently purchased the home as a foreclosure and was renovating it to lease. She had painted everything in the house (including the garage). She replaced the bathroom floors with nice ceramic tile, refinished the kitchen cabinets, bought a brand new side by side refrigerator, etc. etc. Anyways, it was by far the nicest place we had seen and we thought we had nearly seen every place in the area for rent in our price range. We agreed to rent it from her right away and arranged to have dinner with her and her husband and sign the agreement that night. They treated us to IHOP and we got to know them a little. We are very blessed to have a land lord that is local. Nearly every other place we looked at was managed my a realtor. We had to wait another week for them to finish the work on the house. This meant a second week in the hotel. We toughed it out. We moved in November 17.
In Hawai'i, a house with a master bedroom that will accomodate a king size bed (comfortably) is a rare find. We had a queen size bed while we lived there. Mike's feet practically hang off a queen size bed, and I like having my own space, so I talked him into us buying a king size bedroom suite when we got here. We found one at Rooms-to-Go and a mattress at Sam's, and this was the only furniture in our house for the next few weeks except for a small table and chairs set that we borrowed from a couple at church who weren't using it. I'll post pics of our house eventually. We're still not settled in.