Moving into my first apartment in August, and though it's the nicest apartment I've ever seen, I prefer houses by a long shot. Side effect of being a drummer I guess.
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Moving into my first apartment in August, and though it's the nicest apartment I've ever seen, I prefer houses by a long shot. Side effect of being a drummer I guess.
If you have a family you'll want a house otherwise it's pretty useless unless your purchase was specifically made to garner equity.
Yes. I have decked it out in things I enjoy/want. The cost of living differs greatly depending on what the general pay is in an area! It is nice enough, but not where I want to live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
Buying something, whether it be a house, condo, houseboat, or whatever, is far more sensible than renting housing for the rest of your life. I want to settle down on a stake of land that is mine!
I live in a house share with a lot of other people who are all Polish. I guess so long as it's not my mom's and it's with my girlfriend I can survive it.
The house used to be a family home and has a stylish kitchen and lounge but bedrooms and the bathroom leave something to be desired. Our room is quite cramped because we have full fitted wardrobes (1 mans wardrobe with shelves at bottom, 1 womans wardrobe without shelves at bottom and 1 linen closet which is actually my corner for my books and dvds ect) Alongside these huge wardrobes we've got a full width of room dressing table which acts as a desk, place to put my 360, ps2 and tv and whatever else is needed. This dresser has 2 chests of drawers in it. Add a double bed and even the biggest of the bedrooms in the house is a little cramped for space.
This problem is typical amongst early 20th century housing built before or around the time of world war 2. Add to it that it's in the heavily bombed parts of East London and you can understand when I say that the houses here are very cramped. It's also terraced meaning theres neighbours either side of the house.
I want to move in to a single bedroom flat not a studio apartment or a bedsit (bedsits are similar to what I am in now after all) a 1 bedroom flat. In Whetstone where I used to live with my mom, these come at around £180 a week excluding all bills. Whetstone is a nice part of town and known for it's expensive housing so I'm hoping to pay no more than £200pw for a place exclusive of bills. To be very honest the block where my ex lived, although not exactly attractive was a nicely sized block of flats including 1 and 2 bedroom ones of fair size I wouldn't mind renting one there if I could. I'm also looking at the cost of a boat house to rent though most of these will be taken I feel.
Ultimate place to live if I get the money together? In London? Probably would like to have a docklands penthouse apartment since they're really nice and stylish and also generally come fully furnished to a very stylish quality. If I had plenty of money however I'd love to have a house somewhere down in the west country near the coast. Something quite isolated but not completely cut off and with it's own land so I could expand and do what I like with the ground (within reason and with planning permission for structural changes) Maybe on the edge of a small village/town. What I'd do is have an indoor heated swimming pool built and make sure the house is both stylish and modern but still very natural it'd be the kind of place you see featured on Grand Designs.
I've been living in my own flat for 4 or 5 years now. It's a nice flat in all regards apart from being a bit too far from the city core, but then I only pay around $380 for it.
My flat is awesome. It's six rooms in total, is fully furnished, includes utilities and a ride to work every morning. The only stuff that would make it better would be if I didn't hear my little friend running around, the cat came back, and Spuuky Wuuky was here. I think he liked my flat, but I'm not sure.
Yes
Nothing special
$325 a month
A lot more than my prior living situation
I still live at home, in a big house. I'll probably move into some kinds of apartment when I move to a bigger city to study, but until that time comes I enjoy being fed and not having any expenses. :bigsmile:
I live in a house.
Yep, I've lived in an efficiency apartment with ex-bf and that was the most terrible thing ever. Worse than dorms.
After that I subleted the basement of a house for a summer, and that was great. ^^
For the past two years, me and housemates have been renting the bottom floor of a house. I get my own room, we have a huge living room, a kitchen, dining room, and bathroom. It's a 3 bedroom house and currently there's 3 of us. We pay ~$370/mo, then ~another $80/mo for utilities and internet, and every three months we pay ~$50 for water each. It's not so bad considering what we're getting. ^^
I'll be sharing an apartment with a new roommate that I don't really know well (I've met her twice~) when I go to law school in Illinois. :3
I live in one-bedroomed terraced house, literally a two-up, two-down. It's quite a new build (no more than around 15 years old) but in quite an old style. There's no entrance hall, you just come straight into the living room. It's a pretty good size for me.
I pay £340 rent, plus around £200 bills.
Do you live in an apartment?
Yes I do, I live with BoB! ^__^
Is it nice?
Yeah it's much better than our old one. :p
How much do you pay a month?
Nothing I let BoB pay it. :D
Do you enjoy it?
Yeah it feels good not living with my parents and is cosy enough. :)
Apartments are nice but they are also not very roomy.
We found a somewhat excellent deal for our townhouse. I am extremely happy with my house (with the exception that in the summer it is too damn hot to sleep in my room, even when I am naked). Sure I could have saved something like 100$ a month to move into an apartment, but we would not have nearly as much space.
If I had the money, I'd probably buy a condo unit or a house. Apartments are just temporary for me. Oh yeah I still live at home.
that's the amount my dad was charging for his 'project house'; a small four room house with some appliances out in the boonies. What is yours like?Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA