Our 2nd Stockholm Apartment

We were advised prior to our arrival in Stockholm about the difficulties we would encounter finding an apartment.  We can confirm that that advice was pretty accurate.  Helen's focused attention reviewing apartment website entries and quickly responding to potential housing opportunities was the key to us securing an apartment. This path to accommodations was not a straight line.

Prior to leaving the States, Helen made arrangements over the Internet for our first Stockholm apartment.  That apartment, known as a vacation rental, gave us a seven-week home base as the owners, as most Swedes, took an extended summer holiday.  Helen then identified another apartment that was offering a 1 year lease. The apartment ideally suited our needs regarding size, access to public transportation and nearby walking distance to food and other shopping.  The only problem was that there was a nine week gap from the end of our first rental agreement until the opening date of this apartment.

Again, Helen was back reviewing several apartment websites when she spied a weekly rental opportunity in Sodermalm.  Without hesitation, she sent an email expressing our interest. With the guidance and helpful advice of other Americans, she mentioned we had no pets, didn't smoke and that Jay had a work contract, all pluses for a landlord.

We soon met the apartment owner, Adriana, a late twenty-something energetic gal, who indicated that she had received nearly fifty (that's 50) responses to her posting.  Helen's email was the first to arrive.  Adrian was planning to move in with her boyfriend and was looking someone mature take care of her apartment.  Sodermalm has a party, hipster, and in some places bohemian element, and Adrian was glad to see people who more resembled her parents than the pierced, tattooed or dyed red hair folks who occupy Sodermalm's many bars and restaurants.

We are nearing the end of our nine week stay and made a short video of our temporary home.  Enjoy.