Who lives in an apartment?

[adam007 10+ year member]

when i was in florida i was living with 3 others and i would rather live on my own. kinda awkward to have *** when someone is in the next room.

Yea try having *** with ur g/f when ur parents room is right next to you....well it sucks my dad got up the other night and hit the wall like where i sleep he was pissed....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

wtf you wanna see a pic of him for? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

take his virginity...no loosey goosey for him!

 

[GrayMatter4tw 10+ year member]

Yea try having *** with ur g/f when ur parents room is right next to you....well it sucks my dad got up the other night and hit the wall like where i sleep he was pissed....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

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[GrayMatter4tw 10+ year member]

I wouldn't mind living on my own though, at least the little lady wouldn't feel the need to keep it quiet //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Seriously though I'm kind of a neat freak and this being my third year in the house the whole not cleaning up after ones self thing has gotten very old.

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

I live in a duplex with one roommate in the suburbs.. we pay 325 a piece...

Full connected garage, deck, full basement, full kitchen, living room, full bath, and two bedrooms. utilities usually run us around 100bucks a month and cable/internet is 46

So I usually pay 400 a month for a nice place //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I'd look for a roommate if you can stand to live with someone.

 

[CapzNCoilz 10+ year member]

I am pretty sure about moving out around the 1st of the year. I got a promotion today and feel that I make about enough to move out. I work two jobs and make around $3500 per month before taxes. The place I am looking at costs $760, but no utilities are included besides cable. It comes with an adjacent garage so that is cool. It is 1 bedroom and I will be by myself. I will have to pay for electricity, water, and hi-speed internet. I don't have a car payment or anything.
I am thinking I should have enough to pay for this apartment. Is there anything that I am missing or should consider before moving out? I am kind of tired of living at home, at it's hard to impress the ladies by taking them to your parent's house.

I think that is a fairly good price. What kind of area is it in? Malls, grocery stores, gas stations around?

Where I live there is the major mall less than 3 miles from me, grocery store 2 miles from me, work is 11 miles each direction and can get to downtown phoenix in 15 minutes with great traffic. We pay roughly 950/mo in a fairly new complex. It is 2 bed / 2 bath and ~1200 sq ft.

Move out, you'll enjoy it (just pack extra socks).

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

for 760 around here you'd have to live in the ghetto i think... I say you make plenty of money to move out, just make sure you have a bug wad on hand when you first move out, for all the unexpected expenses -plan on another 100$/month for power (around here at least) i think your total bills will still only be like 1000$ so that leaves you like 2000$ -- thats hella money i only make like 1600/month

 

[jj4475 10+ year member]

i moved out once cops kicked the dam door in found nothing... then they come back and well they found something... back with daddy

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

i moved out once cops kicked the dam door in found nothing... then they come back and well they found something... back with daddy

ummmm... ok?

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

I pay $10-$20/month and I run 3 computers pretty much non-stop, have a CRT TV, and a very inefficient receiver.
Publically-owned electricy company ftw !

My bills are:

$500/month for rent (senior building, lower-middle class, not ghetto)

$15/month for power (average)

$45/month for 10 Mbps internet

$100/month for insurance (car + apartment)

$60/month for gas

$250/month for food

$10/month for banking

Total = $980/month

Around here, a 1 bedroom goes for:

Ghetto/Lower-Class = $400-$450

Lower Middle-Class = $475-$550

Upper Middle-Class = $600-$750

Upper-Class = $800+

The power bill for my house was 337 last month //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

6 bedroom house in an excellent neighborhood (but the house is in disrepair-were working on it.) 1200/month -

a good house in this neighborhood with 5-6 bedrooms would run you at least 2200$

internet with digital cable w/boxes in 5 rooms- 70$

gas-10-20$

garbage 10$

water-40-50$

but with 5 roomates its not to bad, i pay well under 300 for utilities and rent, but dishes and messes can get knarly with 5 peeps

 

[Priest 10+ year member]

Man, you people have some cheap *** rent. My old 2 bedroom condo was $1850 a month. We decided we wanted to buy, moved 55 miles away from work to have an affordable mortgage at $2500 a month.

Keep 3 months of living expenses in savings at all times. If you own your home it should be 6 months. Figuring that you'll loose $1000 of that $3500 to taxes you should be OK depending on what other debt you have. You won't be eatting filet mignon each night but you shouldn't be living on ramen either. Make yourself a budget and stick to it (budget in play money as well). Do that for at least the first 3-4 months until you know exactly what it look like.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Im looking to get an apartment eventually and this thread actually helped a lil.....see ca.com is actually good 4 somethin....lawl

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

D*mn, some of the places you guys have are expensive! Makes me glad that I live in the midwest where stuff can still be cheap.

I lived in an apartment during my senior year of college. It was in a pretty good area (no burglaries or anything like that) in a decent shape building that was 3-4 blocks from campus.

We had a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom place with a pretty big kitchen and living room. Rent was $1000/month and utilities added up to about $200/month average. I would have rather had a house because of parties and stuff, but it didn't slow us down one bit. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

If it's BRAND NEW then I guess that's not bad.

nG

yeah it is.. when you move out, you cant say 'that shit was like that when i moved in'..

i'd like to challenge that. population of my town is 900. nearest walmart is a 20 mile drive. nearest mall is an 80 mile drive. hardly any cellphone service, a population base comprised of senior citizens, and a deer population that out numbers humans almost 2 to 1

i got you beat.

$100 a month, two bedroom house, with upstairs, basement, fenced back yard and garage.

population here is 700, nearest walmart 65 miles, nearest normal mall like 180 miles, cellphone in town, but not very far out of town, tons of deer and even more pheasant, old people, farmers, and the kids who weren't smart enough to move away when they turned 18 are the population base.

at least we can get 256/256k dsl //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

yeah it is.. when you move out, you cant say 'that shit was like that when i moved in'..



i got you beat.

$100 a month, two bedroom house, with upstairs, basement, fenced back yard and garage.

population here is 700, nearest walmart 65 miles, nearest normal mall like 180 miles, cellphone in town, but not very far out of town, tons of deer and even more pheasant, old people, farmers, and the kids who weren't smart enough to move away when they turned 18 are the population base.

at least we can get 256/256k dsl //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

we don't even have dsl, but 6 months ago we got cable //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif

been to south dakota before and it indeed did ****. what part are you in?