Help me pick an apartment, or just make obnoxious comments

if noise is a big deal, i think that i'd go w/ the 2 bedroom esp. if it's the same price as the potentially loud 1 bedroom.

"Help me pick an argument, or just make obnoxious comments"

I don't think the suburbs would be any better. Most of my noise problems are from within the apartment buildings I've lived in, rather than from outside sources.

Anyway, I should have realized early on that I am not cut out for apartment living, and started focusing on saving for a house. It took me a while to figure this out about myself. I just thought I needed to find the right apartment. (Even now I'm being optimistic, but I have to be, or I'll be miserable.)

Esibar, yeah, I guess I will wait at least until next week. There's no reason to assume that one of the 2BR will be coming available, however. The price discrepancy is there because the 1BR has a lot of extras and is more or less a luxury apartment. The other building is just okay. I've seen apartments there before and they weren't particularly attractive, but acceptable, I think. I forgot to mention (because I keep forgetting it) that someone I knew once recommended the non-luxury building as a pretty quiet place.

But chances are it's not going to be either one of these choices, and I will be pulling my hair out at the end of next week.

No call-back from the woman at the pricey place, which probably means that the 1BRs there are gone.

I think I may be screwed. I have some other places to look, but I would be really willing to take the apartment I saw last week, which I think is more likely to work out than most.

By living in center city, or nearby, I can walk to work. It's about a 20-25 minute walk now. I don't know if I'd want to push much further over that. I don't have a car, and I would like to avoid taking the bus first thing in the morning, because I am neither a morning nor a people person, and people first thing in the morning are very annoying.

(I changed names partly to get away from personal details like this, but I'm never very consistent.)

x-post. Hmmm, I could at least look there. There's a lot available there. My biggest problems aren't external noise, but noise from other apartments, which is pretty hard to relate to any particular geographic area, I would think.

how long ago did you live in bella vista, strongo? my understanding is that it's becoming kinda trendy -- not manayunk or olde city trendy, but not like living in the hard-core ghetto.

Also, I've lived in relatively run-down places, and I do find it a little depressing after a while.

I feel relieved that I can now start thinking about everything else again (except I also have to think about moving, and not just think, but start doing things to get ready).

I HAVE TO buy a house, a stand-alone house.

Whatever I have to do. Can't I just go into massive debt or something? I have a stable job (albeit, one I often dream of quitting, though not as much as before automated internet sign-up). I've been in the same job for ten years. Isn't that enough to get me the money to buy a house and a car? This would be something worth sacrificing for, so if I end up having to work extra Sundays and stop buying so many CDs (which I should stop doing anyway), and so forth then okay.

This sounds more like a plea to God or something.

(Meanwhile I still haven't gotten my driver's license. I have not yet taken the test. I keep getting interrupted. Now I have to start over again, take the computer test (a joke), and get a doctor to verify that I am fit to drive. Paperwork, etc.)

put your money into a house anyway. bricks and mortar is always a solid investment, and it gives one's mind room to reflect.

mmmm houses

x-post

Yes, I guess I shouldn't have revived my thread with that invitation to attack. At the time it made sense.

can someone pls find me an apartment? i will pay you in beer (or other cocktails).

same here. Apartment hunting is the woooorst

wait you are leaving that awesome pad w/ the bar? :(

this city has the worst apartment listings i have ever seen (and that includes doing 2 apartment hunts in nyc).

currently deciding whether or not to try and find a new apartment for next year (there are many drawbacks to my current place but jeez I would be willing to put up with them for one more year if it meant obviating the need for another apartment search!)

i like finding apts its one of my only real skills

ok you are hired. find me apartment!

where do u live portland or seattle? am i rc?

my biggest fear in this situation is that after you sign the lease etc. etc. there will be some massive GOTCHA! that will make living there hell on earth

lol no i moved to dc metro area :(

just like 1 month ago tho so you sorta rc

i hope Rockist_Scientist found peace. i really like the way he expresses himself in this thread.

i'm not being sarcastic btw

Lamp when yr done with tza let me know, I want a month to month in SLC that won't care that I haven't found a job yet and is also crazy cheap and if it could have a balcony and utilities paid and some unsecured wifi in the building that would be awesome, thx.

Closest thing to a thread on the topic to search for but: friend is helping her brother with an apartment move in New Mexico and as she said, "all the big apartment-finding sites barely have any listings not in major metro areas." Anyone have any suggestions?

Craigslist? On the right sidebar it will show nearby areas that are not necessarily major metro markets

However, I say that from the SF Bay Area where CL has been well entrenched for years if not decades, might not be the case elsewhere

My usual way to find an apartment in a rural area is to pass through a small town in my car, crash into a fence whilst trying to avoid hitting a cow, it turns out the fence belongs to a local judge, who sentences me to 32 hours of community service (increased from 16 hours due to my arrogant city boy anger) at the town's medical clinic. Eventually the small town grows to love me, and I marry a local woman who works as an ambulance driver.

I was thinking, is there any chance that your friend's brother is an especially attractive single person with good hook-up skills?

xpost So you're the guy.

Last time I needed to, 24 years ago, was to look in the local newspaper. I realize that may not be helpful now. How about a real estate agency?

unperson made a sharp suggestion elsewhere: "I've found that most sites, rent. com, zillow etc., will give decent results if you search by zip code instead of by city."