I am now an apartment dweller, and...

[tc]

I hate it. It wouldn't be so bad if I were paying nearly $1,000 per month for a nice place to live. However, we are only renting for two months, so had to find a place that would rent month-to-month, and that was hard to find. It's a second floor, 2 bedroom, air conditioning unit in wall in dining area (opposite end from bedrooms). No microwave, small dishwasher, small frig, toilets don't flush well, stack washer and drying, and it smells bad. It's so small you have to go outside to change your mind. Can you tell I hate it?

I only have about 7 weeks here, but I think it will be a very long 7 weeks. We plan on spending a lot of time on walks, hiking in the mountains, motorcycle rides, etc., to get us out of there.

Think cool and roomy thoughts for me this summer, and I'll let you all know when we finally move into the new house.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Here's hopin the seven weeks go by fast! As a former apartment dweller...I feel your pain. We once lived in an apt where the mgr sent us not one, not two, but three notices for 'inappropriate porch material'. We had some extra chairs for the dining table we were using then and didn't have room for them inside. SO...we stuck them out on the porch. We got cited twice for that, once for leaving a pool float out on the porch for about an hour to dry.

Apartments suck. I'm sorry you have to live in one, even for so short a time. Hopefully, you'll never have to live in one again after this.

TOV

 

[oogieboogie]

Hey, cheer up. It's only 7 weeks and at least your apartment's bigger than this place:

The Capsule Hotel in Japan

 

[Rajah]

 

[stinkerbelle]

DH and I lived in an apartment for 6 months while our house was being built (because our first house sold quickly)

treat it like a hotel - we did. we RARELY cooked (I can't cook on a gas stove anyway - I grew up with electric)

on the upside - it only took me 45 minutes to clean that place top to bottom. heheheh

 

[EsmeraldaX]

That would be considered a STEAL! in MA.

DBF and I pay $700 now for what is essentially a big closet. It's a crowded 1BR on the third floor, no air conditioning and bad heating units, we have to pay for all utilites and upkeep ourselves. Our landlord is useless. Our neighbors are awful.

But we are trying to save for a house and $700 is the cheapest place we found that would allow a dog. It also has a nice huge fenced in yard. We'll probably deal with the negatives until we buy a house. Unfortunately, a house is waaaaay off for us because our credit is terrible.

 

[caitycaity]

That would be considered a STEAL! in MA.

DBF and I pay $700 now for what is essentially a big closet. It's a crowded 1BR on the third floor

$700 for a 1 br?!? it's hard to find an efficiency here for $700!

 

[scarlett873]

i feel your pain kelli!

when i divorced my ex...i left a decent sized house for a teeny tiny one bedroom apartment. matthew and i then upgraded to a 2 bedroom apartment...still hated it...thankfully we are now in our house and i will NEVER go back to an apartment! unless i absolutely have to, of course!

our house payment is actually LESS than what we were paying for our two bedroom apartment!!

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by caitycaity
$700 for a 1 br?!? it's hard to find an efficiency here for $700!

Same here. If the landlord was not stuck in 1927 and my DBFs friends dad, we'd be paying about $1300, which is what most of my friends are paying for 1 BRs.

MA is terrible. I only know one person under 30 who owns their own home and it's a tiny home they are going to end up selling because they can no longer afford it.

I'd say I know maybe 8 people/ or couples who are between 30-40 who own. Only one of them has what I'd consider to be a nice sized house.

Housing in MA is a joke. But so are most of are salaries. DBF and I have a combined income of around 60K per year. And we've both been at our jobs at least 4 years.

I'd be thrilled with tc's place for $1000. That sounds awesome.

 

[Lisa F]

I feel for you, but it's only 7 weeks! When we left houston (land of low housing costs) to move to the DC area (much higher) we sold our 4 bedroom house (really too big for us as a couple anyway) and moved into a 1000 sq ft apartment for about $100/month MORE than we were paying for the house. Boohoo. After 5 long years we finally had enough saved up to buy a house in NY and it felt like our "first house" again since we had been in an apartment for a while. It made it worse to be in an apartment because we knew what we were missing out on! Actually the apartment wasn't so bad but it's nice to be in a kitchen where one person can load the dishwasher and another can chop veggies or cook or something without standing on top of each other. Oh and it's also nice to no longer have elephants living above us. Ahhhhhhh!

 

[tc]

Wow, and I thought housing in Colorado was high. I should count my blessing about only paying $1,000, and I have a view of the pool!!! lol

Stinkerbelle, I agree with your upside. I won't be a slave to cleaning this place. We sold a house that was nearly 3,500 square feet. Took me a good share of Saturday to thoroughly clean it. This place will take no time at all.

Thanks for putting it in perspective!