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My fiance and I are trying to rent an apartment, and it's really hard!  Our work schedules are sporadic, so we don't make a set amount every month.  Last month was really bad for me because I work at a school where we had state testing and spring break last month, which knocked my hours/paycheck way down, so that doesn't look good to the landlord.  Plus I make some in cash at a different job (so no paystub to show), and then I don't know what my hours are going to be at the comic book store... So I don't know if we'll be able to qualify. 

They want us to make 3X the amount of the rent per month.  Not only do we have to have 3 months rent in the bank, we have to make $3K per month to qualify, and that's for a cheap crappy apartment.  In my opinion, there is something seriously wrong with a place where you have to make over $35K a year just to have a hole in the wall apartment.  This is why almost everyone I know who is in my age range who lives here is still living with their parents or living off their parents (because some of them have parents that pay their rent from afar).  How would anyone be able to go to school and support themselves without parental help?  My friend Jessica was working one full time job and 2 or 3 part time jobs when she lived here, and she couldn't even afford a place to live on her own.  Plus she failed a bunch of classes and got like 20 hours of sleep per week and ended up moving to Arizona because she couldn't get an apartment here when her mom kicked her out. 

Actually, now that I think of it, I know lots of people in their 40s who live with their elderly parents or live in guest houses for cheap because they are doing some sort of service for whoever the rich person is who owns the place because they can't afford their own place. 

Let this be a lesson:  unless you make a lot of money, don't move to So Cal.  We live like rats here. 
 
Here in my city is the same thing: You must have a "guarantee godfather" that means your parents or friends or whatever shall put a patrimony on the contract as guarantee, so  if you don't pay the rent, the landlord can go to justice and ask the patrimony to his own (well, to be fair, we have a law that everybody has the right to have a place to live, so it'd much harder to take people of the place...) and 6 months of hollerith, etc...

I searched a lot when I moved here (my first job and my parents live at 200miles what not qualify here), untill I found a nice old lady that rend her apartment to me if I give her three checks on the value of the rent (not to be used, only if I don't pay, got back when I left that apartment). The one I live now accept my mother's apartment and gave me 10 days free (I moved 20th october and start paying november)...

Beside all the crap I had lucky here :)
Hope you can find a home with a nice landlord (it's hard to find nice people, specially in big cities, but always there is a few)
 
I have had sorta a combined experience of hannaugh and nonsense. The apartment I wanted (and now have) required a minimum of I think $35k income a year. The lady and I make no where near that, I am a student and she just graduated. So we did what nonsense is talking about--- my parents signed a guarantor form, and that waived the income requirement. The thing is, we make enough to pay rent! Just not 35 g's a year. So we won't need to fall back on the guarantor agreement, it was just a technicality so we could actually lease the place.
 
There is.

But I meant in order to succeed, you could work full time, rent a room - rather than entire apartment, and also go to school.

Work the night shift, or take night classes, depending on the job.
 
It may sound a bit out of the question, but buy a house. Quit jacking around with apartments it's nothing but B.S. I lived in apartments for years, and I praise the day I bought my own house, believe me it's worth it... :headbang:
 
It's gotten really bad in the past few decades. When I was a little kid, there were butchers & car mechanics & factory workers who bought their own house, paid off their car, raised their children and sent them off to college - the American Dream is now just that for most young people - a dream. It's quite "normal" to come out of college 30, 40, 50,000 dollars in debt - and have no assurance of a job, anymore. There's to be no reversal until the hallucinatory counterfeit-Monopoly-money economy is exploded and basketball players & investment bankers make a salary that isn't THOUSANDS of time larger than that of schoolteachers, carpenters and yes, grocery-store bagboys. It kills me to see rich asswipes like Letterman & Leno make fun of burger-flippers and store workers - hey, jerk, who do you think supports you.... people have been so carefully indoctrinated to worship richness by their TV's - yes, I think it's a conscious manipulation - they have no concept of what's being drained from them.
 
DangerousR6 said:
It may sound a bit out of the question, but buy a house. Quit jacking around with apartments it's nothing but B.S. I lived in apartments for years, and I praise the day I bought my own house, believe me it's worth it... :headbang:
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I would, but this is So Cal.  A crappy condo is like $400,000.  That and we are only planning on being here for a year or two before we move to a different state, so there's no point to try to get a house yet. 
 
I own a house now, can't imagine ever dreaming of renting again (the tax deductions alone are insane)

Even in to my early twenties, my wife(future wife at the time) and I had to get our parents to co-sign our loans for a our first couple apartments.  We both worked full time and could completely afford the places, but it's the same old bullshit they make you go through to get a place when you have no real credit history.
 
hannaugh said:
DangerousR6 said:
It may sound a bit out of the question, but buy a house. Quit jacking around with apartments it's nothing but B.S. I lived in apartments for years, and I praise the day I bought my own house, believe me it's worth it... :headbang:
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I would, but this is So Cal.  A crappy condo is like $400,000.  That and we are only planning on being here for a year or two before we move to a different state, so there's no point to try to get a house yet. 
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Yeah, I don't know why someone would want to settle down in SoCal.

And as for Stubby's rant, I'm with you buddy  :icon_thumright:
 
My sister moved out and now lives in a flat, She has to pay $175 a fortnight, the girl that she lives with has to pay the same every other week in between I think and at this moment, my sister only works at a cafe for 15 hours on the weekends. It's only a small flat though it's damn cheap.

Point to this post: Move over here!  :laughing7:
 
Heh, you pay by the fortnight?  That's so... quaint.  Anyway.

Real estate prices are nice around here.  I rent a house (bungalow, more like) with a great location for $750.
 
hannaugh said:
DangerousR6 said:
It may sound a bit out of the question, but buy a house. Quit jacking around with apartments it's nothing but B.S. I lived in apartments for years, and I praise the day I bought my own house, believe me it's worth it... :headbang:
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I would, but this is So Cal.  A crappy condo is like $400,000.  That and we are only planning on being here for a year or two before we move to a different state, so there's no point to try to get a house yet. 
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That's jacked up too. I have a 1900 sq. ft. house, in ground pool, 3 acres, 1 giant shop (20x30x20), a smaller shop (10x15x10), and paid $62,000. And it's now worth on my tax appraisal $87,000..
 
DangerousR6 said:
hannaugh said:
DangerousR6 said:
It may sound a bit out of the question, but buy a house. Quit jacking around with apartments it's nothing but B.S. I lived in apartments for years, and I praise the day I bought my own house, believe me it's worth it... :headbang:
Click to expand...

I would, but this is So Cal.  A crappy condo is like $400,000.  That and we are only planning on being here for a year or two before we move to a different state, so there's no point to try to get a house yet. 
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That's jacked up too. I have a 1900 sq. ft. house, in ground pool, 3 acres, 1 giant shop (20x30x20), a smaller shop (10x15x10), and paid $62,000. And it's now worth on my tax appraisal $87,000..
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Dang, man. That's sounds like it's about my dream house - where do you live?
 
I am 25 miles south of LA.
Houses in my neighborhood are around $1.5 to $2.5 million.
Rent is usually around $4,000 to $6,000

It's a wealthy area, but seriously... absolutely ridiculous.
Houses are showing up for sale or rent all over the place because people just can't afford that kind of dough.

 
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