Getting an apartment

[anwserman]

To cut a long story short, basically my mom and I were talking and she said. "I don't want you to leave on a sour note. I think next year, if you're going to stay here, you should move out and get an apartment."

God dammit, its not like I really know people around here... geez, this sucks. My mom is afraid of us getting sick of each other (read: pissed at the other) and that I should move out of the house.

Yay.

[Skuda]

think of the personal freedom! you could eat icecream untill you vomited all over the kitchen sink!

[KaFKa]

speaking from experience, kuda?

getting an apartment is both a boon and a burden, in my experiences (even though youre probably older than me) as long as you have a stereo louder than the idiot that lives next to you, and to know how to explain to the management why you dont know where that mysterious stain i the cieling came from...

[navci]

It's a lot of work.
But it's worth it. If you sharing rooms, make sure you are compatible with your roomies. If you manage to meet some cool roomies you might find yourself with soem really good friends and supah good times.

Well. Unless you don't get to choose your roomies *points to bro*. But you do! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

so. W00t!

[BogusKun]

Well, my friend... moved out on me just because the cable was temporarily down... WTF is that? Now I must pay everything alone...

$666 just for rent...
80 for cable
30 for light
11 for water
12 for gas...

I mean... it may not seem like too much but, damn.

Don't get some snobby kid as a roommate... that's for damn sure.

And make sure your roommate is getting/has a car.

Or you'll be stuck.

Roommates depend on each other, and have to to the fullest degree... or someone can't pay rent, meh.

[ABDUR101]

I need a roomate to go half on payments! Come on!

oh wait, wrong state. The search continues, wheee.

Overall though, if you can find a place that you like and can afford, go for it. I wish I could find a place out in the country, but there are only developments out the road, and the family's and kids that live there are abunch of punks that I'd have to beat up for doing stupid shit. =

But there's definately alot of good to having your own place, if you don't mind just being left to your own devices.

[BogusKun]

I feel ya ABDUR...

For some reason, I was doing fine until some punk ass kids broke into my mail-box stealing my Intel's booklets... (which have top secret info inside... no it doesn't say who killed JFK).

Now I have to wait another semester to get something from Quantico...

Well, back to the videogames...

[opaopajr]

quick advice, bring a camera to the place you are interested in renting. before you move in be sure to photograph the rooms and focus on anything that might be construed as renter damage (nics, stains, holes, chipped porcelain, anything). develop the film ASAP and them move in. this is a way to ensure that you get your security deposit back. too often people just assume that money will be tricked away from them and don't prepare. don't make the same mistake - the $12 can save you $300+ in return.

[Armok]

Last I heard prison was free, or try a mental home. Both have good gym access and are catered. Coarse u'll have to commit so kind of crime to get into either and u can't get a GF while there.

[BogusKun]

You can't get a Bachelors living in prison...

...Just join the military or do as I did and take C++ so you can get references to the FBI (read the requirements on their web page)