We saw the place and its awesome. The people who live in the other half of the duplex are so friendly and seem really nice.
We want the place and the people want to rent it ASAP. Since tomorrow is July 1 we obviously can't move in that quickly.
We want to try to negotiate. The rent is $1400. We were thinking of asking them to give the place to us for the month of July at half price. Does that sound reasonable?
Re: WWBOTB do?
We would try to officially move everything in by July 15th, but we would ask the landlord to allow us to start moving in any time after tomorrow.
The apartment is currently vacant.
I think if you are going to move stuff in there but not actually live there until the 15th maybe do a 1/2 month rent and a daily rent since you would be storing things there.