Posted on 10/08/2009 1:33:49 PM PDT by Niuhuru
I was going through, calling apartment complexes, and despite the fact that rents are sky high, they don't include electricity and heat! It's disgusting! With one place, they charge up to seven hundred and they also make you pay 1/3 water bills and heat and electricity. As if they were helping, they said they didn't charge through garbage services! Has anyone else had bad times finding a place that doesn't bleed you alive?
Here comes the worst part: this place that has a one bedroom, small apartment requires that you have an income of 1,660 in order to be able to rent and I have SSD, which limits what I recieve and how much I can pay! It's obscene! Considering what they offer, it's stupid. A one bedroom apartment shouldn't cost any more than five hundred at MOST with everything included. It's like these places are out to take you for all they can get!
So many of these places are all the same really, same structure, same amount of room space, same everything and yet they demand you also pick up the tab for heat and electricity. This is total gouging!
Acorn might be able to offer some suggestions.
Leave Michigan. Rents are better elsewhere
Where is this located? You may want to move to a more suburban (heartland) area where housing costs are lower.
Seven-hundred dollars a month is cheap in Jersey.
Rent something as small as you can month-to-month for the next few months. Vacancy rates are going up sharply, and in six months you should be able to get a much better place at a price you can manage.
You need to look at Craigslist.com for your city.
Plenty of options there.
Apparently you’ve never looked at apartments here in Taxachusetts.
My fiance’ and I just got a place that was a deal, heat and hot water included, though we have to pay electric.
It’s a 2 bedroom, 965 sq ft, it’s costing us $1225 a month...
So, $700 for a 1 bedroom isn’t bad in my eyes, out here that wouldn’t even get you a studio, unless you’re willing to live in a really, really shady neighborhood.
Rent a room in someone’s house, you can probably knock 20-25% off that price.
I rent my 2 bedroom townhouse in NC for 1150/month.
1600sf, 2 car garage and a underground concrete bunker. There is still an indent in the carpet there where I had my gun safe.
I’ve been reading articles about how rents have been falling in these difficult times.
I’ve paid over $700 for a 1 bedroom more than ten years ago. And nobody paid my utilities for me. Time to move to the country.
That rent amount is cheap compared to other areas.
Here in San Diego, one bedroom apt. can start at $1,200 on up, you also pay the utilities. 2 bedroom at least $1,600 on up.
Condos in my neighborhood are $500,000 to $4 milion a unit.
Around here, (L.A.) a one-bedroom apartment, (I’m talking basic— no central air, dishwasher, fireplace or washer/dryer hookup)— is about $1,000 a month, and that’s for the barrio, where you’ll hear gunshots at night and police copters flying overhead and will be afraid to walk down the street. For any kind of decent neighborhood, it’s about $1,800 a month.
Nothing new...except sticker shock(which isn’t new either)...there are programs out there that help on heating. Some rental prices are out of line which means you have to investigate bunches to come up with a deal(note; low priced units usually have waiting lists and some are not in the best of locations and tend towards unsavory tenants).
It will when you buy a building and rent the apartments for that amount. See how easy that was?
BTW don't worry about making your mortgage payments, paying property taxes, supplying trash pick up, paying for house utilities, etc. you probably won't have enough income from the building but you will go to heaven for losing your ass.
20 years ago it was over $1,000 for an apartment in Boston. So get 5 roommates.
I'm paying $1700/mo for a decent two bedroom in Coronado, trash and water included. Street parking only. Deposit was 125% of the monthly rent. My landlord just *lowered* his rents due to too many vacancies. I could pay half that if I moved down the Strand to Imperial Beach. But then I'd be living in I.B. verses Coronado.
Yep. I'm paying out my rear for location. But I know my family is safe when I go to work or out to sea.
Move to Houston.
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