Apartments

[Czas na Zywiec]

Why is it that apartments in college towns are so expensive?!? Damn, I couldn't find anything cheap....at all. The cheapest place I got, that's not all run down with roaches living with you, was $699 a month a piece for a 10 month lease. They have aparments that are $545 a month, but on a 12 month lease. I'll be home during the summer, and plus, it works out to be the same, it's just spread out over two more months. I don't have enough money to pay for that, so I'm going to have to take out a loan next year. I really wanted to avoid loans at all costs, but I don't have any other choice. Scholarship is covering about half of my tuition, and I don't want to rely on my parents, because they work hard enough, so the loan is the only way to go. Boulder is one of the most expenisves towns to live in. Ironically, it as the only architecture school in Colorado I could have gone to, so I didn't have any other choice.

Anyway, ignore my ramblings....how much are you all paying for rent....if you do rent. Or much have you payed if you rented in the past?

[julian bozo]

Is there any way you can stay in a dorm room. They are much cheaper.I've heard.

[Cashodeen]

Geez, $699 IS terrible. I assume there are no towns close by that you could live at where rent might be cheaper...

I think there are decent places around here for about $300-400. But I still live at home.

[Czas na Zywiec]

Actually dorms here run roughly the same. It's close to $7000 for the academic year. So I rather have more space, the kitchen, seperate bedroom, etc., but believe me, I looked into staying here next year, but it wouldn't be worth it. I'm stuck paying $700 a month, so I rather get the better end of the deal.

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Geez, $699 IS terrible. I assume there are no towns close by that you could live at where rent might be cheaper...

I think there are decent places around here for about $300-400. But I still live at home.

Well, I have 8am class, so I'd have to get up at 6 just to commute up there. And I don't even have a roommate. Everyone I've talked to already has one. This place sets people up. I really don't want to live alone, and a roach motel is really not what I want too. But I figured, I make roughly $600 a month now. If I can still make that, I could save up money. I've made about $1700 in four months. Summer, I'll have a job, and after next year, I could probably move to a cheaper place on the outskirts of town and won't have to take a loan. It'll be a lot of work...but I really don't have much choice.

I hate how everything is all about money in this country and how they try and drain as much as they can out of college students.

[Jenya]

The last thing I would do these days is pay rent. Both my husband and I pay $600/month on our mortgage at 4.6% annual interest rate. We bought a brand new house in La Salle back in October (Just outside Montréal) for $150,000.

If I were you, I would look around for a small house, rather than pay that ridiclulous rent.

[Brent88]

My god. We are living in a rented house and the rent is $450 a month, and this is a 3-bedroom HOUSE!!!

I can see now I am going to dread college.

[TJL]

You don't want to know how much my rent is here in NYC.

Hell, I don't even want to know sometimes.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by Brent88
My god. We are living in a rented house and the rent is $450 a month, and this is a 3-bedroom HOUSE!!!

I can see now I am going to dread college.

Wow, that is an excellent price. I don't know of any 3 bedroom houses around here that would have such a good monthly payment.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by Czas na Zywiec
Well, I have 8am class, so I'd have to get up at 6 just to commute up there. And I don't even have a roommate. Everyone I've talked to already has one. This place sets people up. I really don't want to live alone, and a roach motel is really not what I want too. But I figured, I make roughly $600 a month now. If I can still make that, I could save up money. I've made about $1700 in four months. Summer, I'll have a job, and after next year, I could probably move to a cheaper place on the outskirts of town and won't have to take a loan. It'll be a lot of work...but I really don't have much choice.

I hate how everything is all about money in this country and how they try and drain as much as they can out of college students.

Gosh that's rough. You're so right about how college students get drained. It's utterly ridiculous. I'm lucky for now, because I've dodged having to live in a dorm or paying rent. But situations like yours just suck. Hopefully after next year you can get a better deal.

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Gosh that's rough. You're so right about how college students get drained. It's utterly ridiculous. I'm lucky for now, because I've dodged having to live in a dorm or paying rent. But situations like yours just suck. Hopefully after next year you can get a better deal.

I could have lived at home, but a 300 mile commute everyday is a little rough.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by Czas na Zywiec
I could have lived at home, but a 300 mile commute everyday is a little rough.

Ah come on! Don't you have any sense of adventure?

That's good of you to pick a school not based on where your hometown is. Me? I am going to a school I'm not so jazzed about just because it is 5 minutes away.

[Brent88]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Wow, that is an excellent price. I don't know of any 3 bedroom houses around here that would have such a good monthly payment.

We live right in the middle of a town of about 9,000(tri-city area is about 22,000 people), but it's very quiet. We're about a half-mile from the Elementary school and a bunch of churches, so the traffic is pretty bad right before and after school and before and after church, but other than that, it's great. Wal-Mart is only a few blocks away(I can see it out the window) and all the fast-food joints are within a 1/2 mile. There's a bank and a library on this street too, within walking distance right on the edge of the highway. It's a very nice neighborhood, never have had any problems. An older couple lives next door and has 2 dogs and a cat, the house on the other side is vacant(although someone does come over from time to time to do work) and a couple of other houses behind us and down the street are vacant.

Here's a map, we are only about 30 minutes from Auburn University as well:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...+&finditform=1

I am north of that red star right off the interstate.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by Brent88
We live right in the middle of a town of about 9,000(tri-city area is about 22,000 people), but it's very quiet. We're about a half-mile from the Elementary school and a bunch of churches, so the traffic is pretty bad right before and after school and before and after church, but other than that, it's great. Wal-Mart is only a few blocks away(I can see it out the window) and all the fast-food joints are within a 1/2 mile. There's a bank and a library on this street too, within walking distance right on the edge of the highway. It's a very nice neighborhood, never have had any problems. An older couple lives next door and has 2 dogs and a cat, the house on the other side is vacant(although someone does come over from time to time to do work) and a couple of other houses behind us and down the street are vacant.

Here's a map, we are only about 30 minutes from Auburn University as well:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...+&finditform=1

I am north of that red star right off the interstate.

That's awesome. You guys live in a nice neighborhood and have terrific monthly payments.

[PZelda]

Originally posted by Brent88
My god. We are living in a rented house and the rent is $450 a month, and this is a 3-bedroom HOUSE!!!

I can see now I am going to dread college.

$450/month is AWESOME for a 3 bedroom house.

When I lived in THAT other town *spits*, we had a HUGE 2-bedroom apartment that was $400/month. Not bad -- it was just like a house. My bedroom was 12x24. Now my bedroom is 9x9. God, I miss my old bedroom.