Here's what I've come to find out with my experience of renting an apartment or house.
One thing is that every time you rent out a place its always a down deposit added to first month rent. I know that pretty basic but here's a little thing that I always seem to forget in the rush to move in. With paying DD and first month rent that means you don't have a lot of money left over. Which effects you cause then next month rent will be a little hard to come up with. So here's my personal advice always always trying to plan ahead when getting a place instead of rushing in so that way you don't get to behind on rent. Most people get paid every two weeks,while I personally get paid every week. So saving for next month rent is always a shitty thing to do mainly when you're fellow roommates don't keep their end of the bargain.Like you're probably wondering what I meant about when I said next months rent would be hard to get. Now this is where it gets educational: Okay so lets say you find a place you want to live in March but you want to move in on April, well Now you have to get both the DD and first month rent in before you move in. So if rent is 500 a month then BAM you now have to get the land lord 1000 by April so you can start living there. Well I personally don't know how much you make but that's a lot to pull out of your butt at last minute. Now there are some awesome land lords who would let you pay 500 and what ever else you can put in and just pay the rest as you go. Which is awesome but that will put you back some when it comes to next months rent. So my advice is that when you want to move into your own apartment make sure you have a good month to collect your money or else you'll be sweating.
Second thing you need to keep in mind is that just because you have a roommate doesn't mean that the landlord is going to go to the other person when half the rent isn't paid. You will hear from him too and pointing finger games aren't fun either. Cause they just want their money and they don't care if your roommate sucks.
Third thing I learned is that you need to make sure you can afford food and furniture when you first move in or else you will live the life of a poor college kid, unless you live in a furnished apartment. I never look into apartments that are furnished cause usually the furniture is ugly and the tenant before you probably had sex on it. My first apartment with my sister was freaking funny. We had no furniture and we basically slept on the floor and our entertainment was our lap tops and the DVD collection we owned. Our diet consist of ramen noodles and ravioli cause that stuff is cheap.Eventually we got furniture from an awesome customer at my job at the time so it even its self out,but the first two months sucked.
Fourth thing is living with a roommate can be tricky if you're not into the same style. I mean this by that decorating the apartment is going to be stressful. Everyone has an idea of how they want their place to look to reflect their personality but if you're roommate is a bright cheerful person and you're like me and have a love for dark monster stuff then the decorating is not going to go so well. My only suggesting is that you guys sit down and lay out how you guys wants everything and eventually come to an agreement on the decorations.
Fifth thing is packing up is a pain. I did learn from my recent move was that packing stuff sucks and it's always awesome to know a person with a pickup truck cause u hauls are expensive and tricky. I had enough boxes the last move that I could seriously react a episode of Out of the Box
I love buying stuff, like my monster high collection has became huge,but packing it all up I'm like.."WHY DO I HAVE ALL THIS JUNK!"
But that's all I can think of right now for my whole moving stuff and what to think about when it comes to getting an apartment or moving. I hope this helps and I'm sorry I rambled on for so long.
Well until next post BYE my fellow monsters!
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