Nearly six months of house hunting gave way this weekend to looking for an apartment, the admission that the real estate market had won. We found a three bedroom apartment, the second floor of a Victorian, for lease by the owner- no realtor fee- in the neighborhood where we wanted to buy a house. The owners couldn’t be nicer and they’ll let me keep the motorcycle in their garage. We should sign a lease this week. Now we can wait out the market and get to know the neighborhood. What a relief.