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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Lyndon on January 22, 2010, 06:37:47 pm
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Becuase I pay a shit load and its kinda ridiculous :/
I basically pay about £570 ($920 USD) a month inlcuding council tax and bills for a three bedroom house with two other friends. Considering I don't earn that much at the moment, it's kind of annoying to see so much of my pay cheque go on rent.
The benefits are that I'm in a pretty awesome place, but it would be nice to have a bit more money to play with.
What do you guys pay?
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$800 a month, split between 2 and about 150-200 utilities. so about $500-550 a month not including food and shit.
edit: its a 2 bedroom basement apartment.
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I make about 500-650 a cheque, depending on the amount of hours I'm booked for and pay 120$ to my parents for room and board. I got it pretty good right now, but still manage to go through my cash like nothing. but me and my sister have been talking a lot recently about moving out to these town houses which are 700 a month plus utilities which we can afford. Also though after that we have to worry about food, asswhip, toothpaste etc.
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I have a neat deal with my dad who owns the house me and my wife lives in. I pay around 650-700$ for the office(studio), and the house comes "for free". The reason we got that arrangement is that I pay directly via my company, so it's tax-free.
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£260 a month with about £40 a month for bills. Next pay is my last. I'm not staying there right now because I thought I hated it but I know why and it wasn't much to do with the place. It's a decent enough house but my bedroom was about the size of the toilet. I was staying with a bunch of strangers.
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I will let you know when i move out
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$450 a month for rent, internet, and utilities. its a house split between 6 people. Only 4 of them pay rent though. The other 2 are the sons of the owner.
10 minute walk from my school.
Place is crappy looking but I don't really care.
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when i had my own apt i was paying $800 for a 1 bedroom. it was in a nice location and they were like B+ apartments, but it was pretty expensive. The rest of the utilities was probably 300 or so a month.
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$420 a month with utilities included
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I just want to say that my $920 USD was just for me, not split between 3 :x
the whole house is $2760 a month
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I want my own place so badly (not shared with my sister) but I really need a new job. It's not that it's really boring or anything or doesn't pay much but say if I have a 4-12 shift, I could get off anywhere between 9-11 depending on how much shits done or how dead it is (I work at pizza hut). The only shifts I get that are solid hours are the closing shifts, where you got to stay till everything shuts down and then clean random crap after.
Lately though I've been looking over the schedual and when I have say a 4-10 shift, meaning I get off at about 7ish because wed have enough people, I'll just switch somebody because most people I work with are lazy as fuck. It's not a bad job though, I've made lots of friends of people my age and older dudes which is pretty cool. It's nice to talk to somebody with a brain on their head for a change..
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i was paying $77 a week with two others, and before that $75 ($53.25 USD) a week with two others. i'm looking at moving into a bigger place so it's cheaper.
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$290/month. 4 bedroom house with 2 1/2 bathrooms. It's super cheap and very spacious.
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£200 month. No bills included. It's a bedsit, medium room, with a kitchen bit and you share the 3 bathrooms with a load of dicks. On the plus side the is a hot girl downstairs. Game on!
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nothing. i've been squatting for about 3 years now .
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672e ($950 USD) for a single room flat (though it's pretty awesome and spacious). Moving in a month to a two bedroom apartment with a friend, and its rent is 1100e (so mine will be 550e then).
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I live with my folks and don't pay anything. Of course I'm only home for two weeks at a time with month long periods inbetween, I still kind of want to move out though. I could def afford it but it would be kind of a waste of money seeing as how I'd never be in town. I'm prolly gonna wait a year or two and when I get my mate's license I'll only be working one month on and one month off, then I'll get a place.
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signing lease for 700 per month. 3 bedroom apartment.
PEACE DORMS
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Livnig with parents for the rest of school, at least, i think.
Hopefully when i get out of here it will be somewhere more central / transit accessible. that probably means $$$$$$$$ though
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$1200/mo
its kinda small but location location location :welp:
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my soul
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$290/month. 4 bedroom house with 2 1/2 bathrooms. It's super cheap and very spacious.
nice. I used to pay this much for rent for just one room out of the same house. :|
then i went broke
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inflation hasn't hit ohio too bad.
my share of home bills run between 200-300. my 400 rent is split between my too roomates, and they contribute when utilities cross the 200 line to balance everything out.
and im on foodstamps.
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I just moved out and the place I am living now costs me $175 NZD a week, including everything except for my grocery bill (my rent includes power, water, etc and also unlimited broadband usage)
So it's pretty sweet.
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0 cause I still live with my mom (yeah I'm a loser) and I'm probably just going to commute to uni because it's only like an hour away and I don't mind driving so probably still 0 for the next for years.
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Around 680$ (no electricity or broadband included) for living in the worst neighborhood (people blowing
up cars and shooting at my neighbours) in my town. It sucks bigtime since the last place I lived in, I could
save about 1400$ each month but the guy that owned it wanted to sell it for 75.000$ so I moved (I'm not
taking a loan out of principles eh.. nah, but I wanna move abroad soon).. it's impossible to get a place here.
Apartments in downtown are cheaper btw lol.
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Whoop, Swedish Kronors are worth more than last time I checked >_>
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650 a month inc utilities. 1 bedroom basement suite.
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I have my own house, so I don't need to pay rent. However my last apartment cost $1200 a month when I was living in NYC.
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I outright own my home, so there isn't a mortgage (or, obviously, a rent) payment. 3+1 bedroom, 1.5 bath with a partially finished basement. It's well insulated and it's only the two of us here so my utility bills aren't bad at all (my cell phone bill last month was more than my gas bill).
The last place I had to pay rent on was half of a duplex. $770 (including hot water heater rental) plus utilities. The neighbours were nice, so it was all right.
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$485 without utilities, 3 bedroom apartment. I'm living with two other people too.
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€440, one bedroom apartment, on campus pretty centrally placed in the city, water, heating and internet included, electricity not. Fairly good view from the 8th floor too
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83.0932 USD.
Unlimited power and internet. Two bathrooms
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Where in NZ do you live, Afura? I have no idea how you're getting such cheap rent. I thought mine was good.
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Wellington and I share a room with my gf
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83.0932 USD.
Unlimited power and internet. Two bathrooms
wtf
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i don't understand the unlimited power and internet
edit: hang on, if that's weekly and your girlfriend pays the same that's some $230 a week
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she pays a bit more than me, hey i got it good :welp:
what's not to understand about internet/power?
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I'm in central city Christchurch, paying $175 a week. The kitchen has two stoves, two sinks and three/four fridges. It's pretty sweet. Plus two toilets and two bathrooms.
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I have an excellent deal. Single room (plus bathroom), about 30 square meters, near the center of Rotterdam, for €254 ($359) per month. I also pay about €100 per month for a studio building (with 5 others; each pays €100).
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300$ a month for something not even worth 200$. It's only a small bedroom in one of the residence tower and the only kitchen of the residence is located in another building. I mean, the 300$ encompasses everything but damn. The issue is, there is no affordable apartments near the University of Montreal. It's located in the middle of an upper-class neighbourhood.
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i live at home still, but i pay my parents rent, indirectly. i pay off my old medical bills so they don't have to use their own money. when they're paid off i'll just pay them directly. $120 a month.
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I'm living with three other people in a 3 bedroom place where we pay $2100 a month for rent; I pay $450 a month because I share a room with another guy. The gas bill ends up being about $200 this time of year, with the rest of the utilities adding up to about $200 as well.
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$400/mo with gas and water included at a fixed rate. Not sure how much electricity is going to be as I just moved to Ohio and haven't had my first month's bill yet, but the place is really big for a one bedroom and there's a lake and workout room literally 30 feet from my door.
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she pays a bit more than me, hey i got it good :welp:
what's not to understand about internet/power?
how it's unlimited. no power company will set you up with unlimited power i'm pretty sure, same with broadband. this is my confusion.
300$ a month for something not even worth 200$. It's only a small bedroom in one of the residence tower and the only kitchen of the residence is located in another building. I mean, the 300$ encompasses everything but damn. The issue is, there is no affordable apartments near the University of Montreal. It's located in the middle of an upper-class neighbourhood.
THEN IT'S WORTH $300. THIS IS HOW MONEY WORKS.
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You can have unlimited broadband, power is unlimited because it's included in the rent.
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You can have unlimited broadband, power is unlimited because it's included in the rent.
Same as mine, though my landlady told me when I moved in that she monitors the power usage sort of cause one time she got a $4000 power bill for one month cause everyone kept the heaters on 24/7
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are you two in like, an apartment complex? you can't get unlimited bandwidth (that's what the telecom case was about recently) without paying a fee that makes it not worth it (~$450)
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My total rent is $685 a month (including utilities) for a 2 bedroom apartment. The power bill averages around $50 a month. This is split between me and my brother, so it isn't bad at all. Unfortunately we live in a really shit area with a lot of crime. If you ever find yourself in Washington, don't settle for the suburbs of Tacoma.
$1200/mo
its kinda small but location location location
What part of Washington do you live in? This seems really high. I have friends who pay far less and live on Capitol Hill and other nice parts of Seattle.
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I think they mean "unlimited" with a fair usage policy not unlimited unlimited.
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are you two in like, an apartment complex? you can't get unlimited bandwidth (that's what the telecom case was about recently) without paying a fee that makes it not worth it (~$450)
I live at one of these houses: www.urbanrooms.co.nz (http://www.urbanrooms.co.nz)
I'm not sure if there's a fair usage policy, or if they just keep upping their cap whenever they run out so that it's constant broadband, but from what I understand it is completely unlimited.
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I don't live in an apartment complex anymore.
Yeah same here, we once went over our 80 gig plan so they moved us onto some unlimited plan and apparently it's the same price my flatmate said!
I think they mean "unlimited" with a fair usage policy not unlimited unlimited.
Yeah I was pretty sure that this was a granted.
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My total rent is $685 a month (including utilities) for a 2 bedroom apartment. The power bill averages around $50 a month. This is split between me and my brother, so it isn't bad at all. Unfortunately we live in a really shit area with a lot of crime. If you ever find yourself in Washington, don't settle for the suburbs of Tacoma.
What part of Washington do you live in? This seems really high. I have friends who pay far less and live on Capitol Hill and other nice parts of Seattle.
ahahaha
I'm actually going to tacoma in april to see my bud, gonna get a hotel or something I think.
My brother is talking about trying to rent a place soon. There is some guy living with us who is mentally unstable and can't live on his own but he gets 1000$ a month disability and my mom is trying to get him kicked out because she's a mean bitch. So we're thinking about renting a place for under 1000$ a month so I can pay a little under half and the guy can pay the other half and my bros gonna take care of him plus pay for food and utilities or whatever.
So I might move out in a little while I dunno for sure yet.
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I went to Puyallup which is like 15 min. from Tacoma and a couple of the days I was there my friend and I went to Tacoma it was alright. We mainly went to the casino there.
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i pay 350 fo ma pad, it aint too bad but the homegrown shit now b gettin mad. The chronic dont sell in tye cold n i just got a spliff i rolld. Life be breezy gonna be up there like weezy you will see me. Nigga
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I went to Puyallup which is like 15 min. from Tacoma and a couple of the days I was there my friend and I went to Tacoma it was alright. We mainly went to the casino there.
tacoma is a giant stripmall and the downtown area is gentrified by yuppies and smells like ass from the mills that are all probably gonna shut down if the economy gets worse which will in turn make tacoma an even less desirable place to live.
tacoma is the most depressing part of western washington(eastern WA is a whole different animal)
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tacoma is a giant stripmall and the downtown area is gentrified by yuppies and smells like ass from the mills that are all probably gonna shut down if the economy gets worse which will in turn make tacoma an even less desirable place to live.
tacoma is the most depressing part of western washington(eastern WA is a whole different animal)
Truer words have never been spoken. I fucking hate it here. My brother lives in Bellingham which looks like heaven when compared. Only 6 months left on my lease. Unfortunately pretty much anywhere within 30-40 miles of me is pretty much the same shit.
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What part of Washington do you live in? This seems really high. I have friends who pay far less and live on Capitol Hill and other nice parts of Seattle.
Belltown
Its pretty much yuppie central but I've got a parking spot in an underground garage in downtown which is pretty dope and the building is pretty nice
Capitol hill would be great if I didn't have a car, I've got a ton of buds up there but walking around on Broadway puts me at risk of having a panic attack, there's nothing worse than a Guy in his mid 30s with a gut trying to pull off the 'american apparel'/skinnyjeans look
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I pay £230 ($370 or so) a month for a three bedroom flat in the middle of the city. It's a good location and a comfortable place. It was the first house me and my buddies looked at, so I guess we got lucky.
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£560, not including bills but no council tax. It's a pretty standard rent for where it is in London.
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180e ($252) for 43m^2, two rooms, kitchen and bathroom, shared and the rent halved with my girlfriend. Includes water, heating and a broadband. It's literally next to the uni I'm going and around 5km from the city center. The apartment isn't in the best possible condition, but it's a student apartment by a non-profit organization and so damn cheap I really can't complain. A similar apartment on the free market would probably cost over 100e more.
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i pay about 1500 a month for a 2 bedroom apt
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i dont pay rent i live with my mom
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$850 a month for a 2 bedroom by myself. That's really not that expensive for the area I live in though. Awesome apartment still.
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300 euros a month for a room. A FUCKING ROOM.
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looking at some pretty badass condos on the beach in pcola to move in with my cousin. He really likes the portofino because its supposed to be really high class and spiffy but they're at like 1500$ for a two bedroom. Found one that was neat, its 1200$ and not a portofino but its right next to the boardwalk where there are alot of bars and shit and right on the beach.
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$610 for a one bedroom, but with utils and shit put together its about $760, pretty decent for houston and nearest the freeway, grocer, laundry, etc. but i have murdered 7 roaches since i moved in yesterday i might get carried away
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$775/month plus $30-40 for electricity (heat and water are included in the rent). One-bedroom apartment in a central neighbourhood in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Rents got jacked up about 2 years ago because the economic and real estate market got hot (I used to pay $650 for a two-bedroom in the same building, I moved into the one-bedroom because they jacked the rent up to $975/month and I had broken up with my girlfriend at the time, so had no one to split the increased rent with).
Unfortunately, when the market dropped, rents didn't decrease to match.
This probably seems like a really high rent to a lot of people in less expensive parts of the country/world, but it's actually pretty reasonable for the area. I could get a cheaper place if I moved up the road into a neighbourhood where people like to kill each other for fun, or to a neighbourhood that is not very central, but I like where I live and the rent is good for the area and even for the city in general.
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I have no idea how people are living so cheaply...do you all live in like CARAVANS or SKIPS or something? I have a friend who lives in a caravan on his family's land - good times!
I pay a LOT out. Like my rent breaks the £1500 ($2500?) mark if you include bullshit like utilities and shit, and I live in an apartment rather than a house. Anyone who complains about a few hundred for a PLACE TO LIVE is a total mook!
I pay a lot because I live extremely centrally in a large city, but my job is over 30 miles away. I NEEDS TO MOVES ME DOWN TO THE SEASIDE BABY!
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I'm moving out next Monday and I'm paying 400 euros for a two-room apartment (a bedroom and a living room, 52m^2) and the rent includes electricity, water and a 100/10 broadband. The location's not too bad either so it's a good deal but only so cheap because the apartment is for students only.
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$325 including utilities. We found a really good deal. It is right next door to the bar (easy access....), but it gets bad on monday nights when they usually host terrible cover bands. There is also the occasional drunk argument next to my window.
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I'm moving out next Monday and I'm paying 400 euros for a two-room apartment (a bedroom and a living room, 52m^2) and the rent includes electricity, water and a 100/10 broadband. The location's not too bad either so it's a good deal but only so cheap because the apartment is for students only.
Is it true that in Finland high-speed internet is a statutory human right?
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$550CAN/month, utilities and laundry included.
However, I'm on the outskirts of Toronto though and trying to move. Nearly nabbed a place close to downtown for $760/month. Really pissed I couldn't afford it. They wanted first and last 3 months in advance (now)... painful. It had... everything.......
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Is it true that in Finland high-speed internet is a statutory human right?
yes
doesn't mean that it's free though!!
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£230 ($350~ USD) a month for a kind of one bedroom (studio with a wall put in to create a bedroom) flat. The town is crappy, and some parts of the flat badly need updating, but it's okay for the short time I plan to live here. Like one more month.
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$500 a month, $2000 total split between four people. we don't have a dishwasher. north philly, just off of Temple campus
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Livin with my buddy. $350/mo each no including Groceries... Bust just bout everything else.
His Mom owns the house, lives elsewhere we just be payin off her mortgage
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Just moved in a couple of days ago, and rent in new apartment is 1117 euros of which I pay half.
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i live in a pyramid
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i live in a pyramid
with no electricity and lousy water pressure
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I live in school campus residence halls with utility bills included. A monthy rent of £300 for a tiny room with the lousiest shared kitchen and bathrooms ever. Additional Internet costs £25 for 3 months. I seriously can't wait to move out into my own apartment with friends. ~.~
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Nothing because I'm living with my parents while I finish college. After that I'm moving out and I can't imagine I'll find anything cheap near Toronto.
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I pay $859 now for a 1 bedroom inclusive of heat, hydro and central air and unlimited use of the rec facilities (indoor pool, billiards room, Sauna, squash court, basketball court, exercise room and an outdoor tennis court). Also in the summer I get unlimited use of the barbecues on the deck.
EDIT: Canadian money, downtown Hamilton area.
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Well, our house is about $1560 a month, my brother and i pay $100 a fortnight, pretty sweet deal I guess 8)
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east lansing, mi
i live on the main drag bordering michigan state university campus.
$1916/month (split three ways unequally, $718.50/month)
$16/month cable (split two ways)
$40/month electricity (split two ways)
$70/month parking
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$816.50/month
(not including food, gasoline, and other life essentials.)
definitely expensive & overpriced. i wont be able to pay it much longer,
thankfully my lease agreement is done next month.
two bedroom apartment with balcony. theres four laundry machines in the basement of the
complex that charge a dollar to wash and a dollar to dry (with no change machine.) the internet
is hardly ever working *though included. i was sharing my room with another person (as was
the other roomate) - however they ditched. one is still paying rent because of the agreement
the other decided he doesnt want to so we need to sue him for losses. i really dont want to
go through the court process and sue (possibly loose) a friend over this but theres nothing i
can do.
NEVER. EVER. SIGN. A. JOINT. LEASE.
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I signed one with my cousin but if he fucks me over on it I'll just kick his ass out and pay for it myself because the lease itself is under my name and he's just an additional tenant.
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550 per month.
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425 euros (increased by 10 euros this year) plus 12 for sauna every Friday and another 5 euros for a parking space (without electricity). This is for a single flat at the outskirts of the city (about four kilometers off the downtown). Also due to it's close proximity to the capital (Helsinki, about 25 kilometers away) the rent is still high even for an outskirts flat.
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I'm paying $715 AUS ($655 US) a month for a large room in a college-esque student dorm. I really like the room; has a skylight, freedom of use of facilities (commercial kitchen/cool room, heaps of fridges, washing machines/dryers) and the dudes here rock. I'll often get a knock on the door from dudes who barely speak English getting me to come and drink Scotch with them and play cricket or watch AFL and explain it to them.
All utilities are included apart from internet (which you pay for by how much data you use, for example you pay $50 AUS for 10 gigs and use that etc). I have an air conditioner/heater, lamp (SHIIIT), TV and a nice bed which came with it. I've spiced it up a bit with some hip hop/'cool' movie (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction) posters so y'all can suck on that, I'm THAT cool. Yeah, heh.
It's not exactly cheap, but it's a good deal for what I'm getting and the dorm environment is awesome. Next year me and my mates are hoping to move to a nearby suburb and that'll be about $1400 a month split between 3 people in a townhouse. Keen for that, even if it might hinder uni work.
When you guys post could you also post if you're at uni, working full time or whatever? I'm at uni and working part time at two jobs (heh, well, heh, three, cos I'm a rap superstar. Last gig I got paid 20 beers. Money in the bank, bitch).
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I'm about to be paying $600 AUD a month for a pretty good sized flat in a cool part of Sydney. I pay half of the rent so really it is $1200. That's really pretty expensive because back home that would be like an £800 a month flat which is nuts but the exchange rate sucks and sydney is expensive. I can afford it since i'm only paying half though so i'm not gonna moan!
I don't have a job right now but if I find a part time job in a cafe within the next couple of weeks then I should be fine. I'll be going back to Scotland in september to start uni where I'll be back in student flats again. Gonna do it right this time. gonna make a new pal.
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£303 a month at the minute. can barely afford it since i'm living off of student loan!