I'm apartment hunting in a new town, Boulder, CO, and it's as hard as ever. Every apartment listed below my $$$ threshold is a purple link in craigslist for the past two weeks. I've heard back from one person. And I'm supposedly one of five people who've expressed serious interest. I know this is probably easier if you have a roommate or three and you all go in on a place together with your pooled monthly shares. But I don't have three friends or one in Boulder trying to go in on a place. As demoralizing as it is, it probably doesn't hold a candle to kleinbl00's recent commercial leasing adventure. Any update kleinbl00?
Fuck, dude, does anyone even give a shit anymore? Do I? Let's put things in perspective: I'm the dick forcing a family out of their home so I can pursue my greedy capitalist wealth fantasies. You're the kid that can't afford a roof over your head. Realistically speaking? Just that single line-item in the budget is going to drop FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS next month in moving out of LA and into the house we've owned since 2000. Fact of the matter is, my problems are aggravating and heinous but they're also problems of convenience. Yes, it will cost me $5k to move and another $3k to get the floors refinished before we can move back in. Yes, we can afford that. That's the advantage of being a grown-up. My advice? Move in with roommates. They may be catastrophic but at least you get stories. And bedrooms are hella cheaper than apartments.
Ha I give a shit. I thought though from the tone of another pubski update you gave that you were in fact capitulating by leaving LA. That your greedy capitalist wealth fantasies laid behind you. Do they lay before you!? I have been looking for single bedrooms with roommates. $700 a month for a room in Boulder doesn't even get you an email back. Good thing is that the place I'm staying in now, a werk exchange where I get free room and board and make a little money waiting tables for the owner, can be extended for another month if I can't find anything. But believe me, I've been very open to having low standards while room hunting. I live for the stories.I'm the dick forcing a family out of their home so I can pursue my greedy capitalist wealth fantasies.
And bedrooms are hella cheaper than apartments.
I am, in fact, capitulating by leaving LA. There are no studios in Seattle to sell screenplays to. It is neither a movie nor a television hub. Things are a little different for the home birth industry. Things are a little different for my wife. $700 for a bedroom is batshit insane. I was paying $825/mo for an 800sf 1Br in North Hollywood in 2009, and Los Angeles is famously unaffordable. I have no idea why Boulder is so expensive. That's crazy.
The reason Boulder is so expensive is because it's becoming Los Angeles, to answer your question. I always knew this but it really cemented in my brain when I saw there were TWO new Google buildings adjacent from one another on my way to to pick up a package from FedEx.
And when I hear batshit insane I feel like I'm crazy for even putting up with it. And it doesn't help that the first American Ninja Warrior champion is from Boulder. I feel late!
haha YEA buddy.Yah.. but your next video will be better than his was...
This seems to be quite a problem around Seattle. People hear about how rents are going up so much and get delusions of grandeur. "I'll become a real estate baron!" When in reality all they have is a 500sqf 1/1 they rent out. Then you start getting rents going up way beyond cost of living, totaling far more than whatever mortgage payment they may have just "because they can" and the broke ass college student gets fucked. I'm the dick forcing a family out of their home so I can pursue my greedy capitalist wealth fantasies.
To elaborate - it's actually my home, and they were told that their 1-year lease would not be renewed past its expiration date four months in advance. Further, they were told that if they wanted to start a new lease on the 1st instead of, you know, the 15th (like the one they have with us because they swooped in so fast we couldn't even refinish the floors) we would be happy to oblige that. Their move? "Hey, can we get out of the lease four months early with no penalties, rather than two weeks?" In any read by anyone who has never rented property to another, though, I'm still the dick.
Actually no, not anymore, sadly. They just went harder on zoning laws here because there have been too many instances of 12 kids in one house. Link here. Get into the school and apply for Family Housing and then we can be neighbors, yeee~I know this is probably easier if you have a roommate or three and you all go in on a place together with your pooled monthly shares.