To move or not to move

Our lease would be up on 15 July. A month ago, I was panicking. Every Sunday, I would buy a newspaper and only read the classified ads. Diyos ko, sana po may for rent na swak sa budget namin. Part of the agenda in Sunday walks with Chubby-wan would be to look around the Kapitolyo area and chance upon a For Rent sign. No luck. Tried San Antonio Village and voila! Ang dami pala doon! While Ate Annie is driving slowly, I was busy scribbling down the contact numbers. Following day, I inquired and had little luck. Either the rent is too high or there's no provision for parking. Haaaaay. Demmit. Think. What to do now? What other options do we have? The last and most dreaded option was asking the landlord for an extension of our lease. I dread this option kasi I had the impression months back that our landlord was not keen on letting us renew our lease. May issue kasi about our water consumption. And we hardly talk to him unless its necessary. Anyways, it was pretty taxing to look for another place, taposo bayad na naman ng deposit (eeeeeeeek!), tapos after 7-8 months, we will be moving to another place.... a more permanent one. Thus, nilunok ko ang aking pride, at kinausap ko ang landlord - to let us extend for about 8 months na lang and I proposed, (not marriage ha), an increase in the rent. Sabi ko, "dadagdagan namin ng 500 pesos per month". Tapos, he counter offered a thousand bucks. HMP. Sige na nga, para matapos na at less hassle on our part, pumayag na rin ako. HMP.