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The [Renting] Thread
theSquid
Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
So hey I figured I could make a thread to talk about renting and looking for an apartment and flatmates and rundown townhouses in the inner city seeing as how that is going to be a thing I will be dealing with presently.
Has anyone got any cool stories or sage advice about renting or finding a place to rent?
I can afford an apartment like this in my mid-20s, right???
Has anyone got any cool stories or sage advice about renting or finding a place to rent?
I can afford an apartment like this in my mid-20s, right???
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3 years in this house and he's never done an inspection or raised the rent. He is super casual and nice.
I think I will be moving out in a couple months though; it's high time I lived somewhere that has air conditioning.
If I were ever to end up renting again, I'm pretty sure I'd try to find a single bedroom apartment near the CBD
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We need to call an electrician at some point to fix the wiring in the basement so we can have a backlight again and a lot of the wall sockets down there apparently don't work.
We also seem to have problems with the kitchen sink and the dishwasher randomly deciding to be wonky.
And there are fixtures in the bathrooms that need to be replaced at some point before they decide to stop working.
This is part of why my sister got out of renting her property and just sold it... between one destructive tenant and one who just didn't bother to tell her about anything that stopped working it wasn't worth the hassle anymore. Every time I feel shitty 'bothering' my landlord too much I remind myself they'd rather know when it's a small problem than when the fridge completely shits the bed on a Sunday night, or something
Your folks?
The owners are blissfully unaware of how terrible the rental agency are. The apartment's basically falling into a state of disrepair, and our complaints fall on deaf ears. I'm under the impression that the rental agency are kind of finagling for a scenario where when we move out, they give the owners a huge list of renovations that need doing before someone else will move in, and when they baulk at the 6 figure price estimate, offer to buy the unit from them at a discounted price.
your problem would probably be more the stuff in the apartment than the apartment itself
if anything, the studio lighting might be a problem
I pay $Texas^2.
That is my renting story.
It is 65 outside today!
He offered to turn it down of course but I think I'm just going to be like, turn it off in the evenings unless you need it on for the restaurant downstairs or something. I don't need heat until like, we're down in the low 50's on the reg.
E: but I guess the former tenant was constantly cold and that's probably part of the cause
I on the other hand come from the frigid northern Midwest
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Yeah, he isn't well enough (paranoid schizophrenic) to live on his own anymore so he's staying with my parents. Luckily, my father was a contractor and can help with the maintenance for him which cuts down on cost.
We aren't sure how long we'll stay in the same place, but at some point before we leave my Uncle really needs to do a walkthrough of his place with us so we can point out the updates that need to be made. It's frustrating because he's sort of like "Just do whatever you need to" but I don't want him to be upset later if he decides that he didn't want us to certain things.
Where do you live? Renting conventions change pretty dramatically from country to country and something even city to city.
Renting here in Vancouver is so different to renting in Brisbane where I'm from. I remember when my first roommate here told me I could paint my bedroom if I wanted and my head almost exploded like that scene in scanners.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
The hole in the ceiling is still there, rancid insulation is still dangling out of it. They fixed the leak though so hurray!
The good news is that we're moving! Later that night we started looking at craigslist ads, found one we really liked that was close to a lot of our friends, the next day we went for an inspection, loved it, told the owner we'd take it, a couple of days later we signed the papers!
We're hoping to get the keys next weekend and we're booked with movers on November 1st. It is a huge upgrade in almost every respect. Big insuite laundry, dishwasher, little balcony, sun room, the square footage is only a little bigger but the layout of the apartment means there's WAY more room. The apartment is owned by a really fun couple who manage it themselves, we control our own heating and we have our own huge water heater so we're not at the mercy of other tenants and the manager, AND the building right next door houses three friends, with another 5 friends within a few blocks - primed to give us rides and look after our cats.
I want this month to hurry up and finish already so we can move.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'm in NYC.
I've been glancing at Astoria because it's still in the semi-affordable range (for NYC) and because I've heard some damn good things about it.
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Yeah I've heard good things about Astoria, and the commute to Manhattan isn't too bad if that's where work/whatever is. Are you trying for an apartment or a room w/ roommates?
Not just 1st of the month, here June 1st is the "official" moving day.
I was looking for apartment in November, and had to turn down two really good apartments simply because the landlord wouldn't have a rental which didn't start on June 1st.
I couldn't fathom it. They would rather leave an apartment empty for six months than have a non-standard start time.
we're probably moving some time in january
That is the weirdest thing.
Around where do you live?
Yup, I work in Flatiron, so the commute wouldn't be bad at all.
I'd love a place of my own, but I just cannot swing it right now. I'll have to go for a roommate situation.
And ideally I'd like to move in with my biffle, but she's still in grad school and won't be employed till at least next year, so I'm in the market for rando roommates for that period of time.
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Try getting them to agree to a non-12 month lease as well.
Might as well be forcibly castrating them.
:winky:
Sacrifice goats, bribe every city official you can find, buy a hundred rabbits feet and rub them just so
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Sigh.
When I was lil, we had police bang on our door at like 3 or 4am. Apparently someone they had arrested gave our address o_O ...or something like that, I was super lil at the time so foggy memory.
- Be the first person there at an open house (or try and schedule an earlier viewing)
- Be personable and nice but not overeager (e.g. this is a great place vs I NEED THIS PLACE PLEASE RENT IT TO ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)
- Have everything filled out ahead of time (i.e. a full rental application, list of references, deposit check, first month's rent, application fees)
- Be willing to sign the lease there
- Be willing to move in right away
- Don't ask questions that indicate you're a bad renter (e.g. can I nail things into these walls? My dogs bark sometimes, is that bad? etc)
always bring a deposit check with you to the open house
If the landlord says they're trying to decide between a few people, offer to pay a few months rent in advance if you can afford it.
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If all of the appliances (hot water system, oven, cooktop) are older than your parents, avoid the place. Those owners be stingy, and they'll resist spending a cent.
The carpet is literally rotting?
Go fuck yourself. Buy a rug.
I remember someone posted some advice in H/A about how you should look into cabinets and under the sink (preferably with a flashlight) and stuff to look for roach and mouse droppings and the like.
Is that a thing landlords are cool with? Or will they side eye you and tell you to gtfo?
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Haha sounds like them, doesn't it? No, I'm talking about the Ashfield place
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Need some advice
We've been renting a place for the last 4 years. Never a late payment, rarely ever an issue we couldn't take care of ourselves.
Our lease is up in November, and the landlord just told us if we want to renew, it's going to go up $50 if we lease for two years, or $100 if we only renew for one year.
We currently pay $750, which is pretty good as I understand it for a 2 bed / 2 bath, and similar places are going for ~$850, $900+
We're going to try to negotiate with the landlord on the basis that
- we're newlyweds
- we've been perfect tenants for four years without a single late payment or complaint
And that we'd be willing to take an increase to $800 a month, but only on the one year lease (since we are planning to start job/apartment hunting in earnest early next year)
Thoughts? Suggestions?
And in a final act of cockknobbery, my neighbor stacked a quarter cord of wood over the property line. I know he did it on purpose because he had to pull up the stakes the surveyors put down marking the line. I figure the morning before they drop in the post holes for the fence I'll go out nice and early and throw all the wood into his yard. Really making us happy we have the fence going in.
Was there a pool?
'cause it seems like the wood could real easily accidentally fall in the pool if it's close.
My mortgage is currently less than the apartment I lived in three years ago.
Here's a tale of the tape:
Seriously, the rent on the apartment is $100 more a month than my mortgage. And then remember that renting gets you absolutely no tax breaks or anything of the kind. (Though of course I have to pay property tax now.)
And to think, at the time I moved out of that apartment because they wanted to raise my rent to $1420 a month... it's now $1900. The Bay Area is crazy and/or stupid.