Rent

[Vivian]

<-- pokes back

July, 2005.

I now realize its been a while since I was on here last. *grins*

So Crazed Vampryess, have you any thoughts on your living arrangement?

[Crazed Vampyress]

I now realize its been a while since I was on here last. *grins*

So Crazed Vampryess, have you any thoughts on your living arrangement?

well i dont have the money to just up and move right away. I am currently looking through listings for other apartments in my area to see what is available. I also wrote the landlord a letter expressing once again all the issues with the apartment, listing the items that I brought up previously that he has not addressed, and telling him that if he expects my rent to be paid in full, I expect these items to be addressed immediately. Being the penny-pincher he is, he has in the past looked for the cheap/easy way out so theres a good chance we can haggle the rent hike down a bit because I will be demanding he fix literally anything and everything i can find wrong, hundreds of dollars worth of repairs, and I will continue these demands as long as my rent hike is in effect. Also later this week when I have some time off work I am going to go down to the library and look up what exactly are the laws/my rights as a renter.

I have not yet begun to fight!

In the end I need to move. Im ready for a nicer apartment anyways. this was my first apartment by myself and i do love it (even though its a shack, its my shack, lol) Even if i manage to haggle down the rent hike, we'll just be going through this again next year. The problem is that it really does cost a lot to move. I should look into finding a roommate and renting a bigger place.

[Kit Kat P]

if it makes you feel any better our rent prices are about 700-900 for a small one bedroom and we don't make as much in CA as people seem to think, actually I've made more in both VA and MI

[creatureofthenyte]

well i dont have the money to just up and move right away. I am currently looking through listings for other apartments in my area to see what is available. I also wrote the landlord a letter expressing once again all the issues with the apartment, listing the items that I brought up previously that he has not addressed, and telling him that if he expects my rent to be paid in full, I expect these items to be addressed immediately. Being the penny-pincher he is, he has in the past looked for the cheap/easy way out so theres a good chance we can haggle the rent hike down a bit because I will be demanding he fix literally anything and everything i can find wrong, hundreds of dollars worth of repairs, and I will continue these demands as long as my rent hike is in effect. Also later this week when I have some time off work I am going to go down to the library and look up what exactly are the laws/my rights as a renter.

I have not yet begun to fight!

In the end I need to move. Im ready for a nicer apartment anyways. this was my first apartment by myself and i do love it (even though its a shack, its my shack, lol) Even if i manage to haggle down the rent hike, we'll just be going through this again next year. The problem is that it really does cost a lot to move. I should look into finding a roommate and renting a bigger place.

CV,

I hope you give your landlord a good asswhoopin.

I also want to say that, in my opinion, if at all possible, I think you should skip the roommate idea.

The endeavor of living with a roommate, can be good sometimes.

However, and I speak from my own experience on this, it can be very stressful too.

With a roommate, you have to contend with:

not knowing if he/she will always have their half of the rent when its due.

if they flake on you and don't have their half, You have to foot the bill of the total rent for that month.

then there is privacy concerns, will they eat your food on you, steal your stuff, money etc.

I just wanted to put that out there. Having a roommate Can be good, but taking that risk, whether That is good or not, is debateable I think.

[SpidersMoment]

Rent Soundtrack Lyrics

- Rent Lyrics

MARK

How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?

Headlines - bread-lines blow my mind

And now this deadline "Eviction - or pay"

Rent!

ROGER

How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong,

though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour

Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?

MARK

And we're hungry and frozen

ROGER

Some life that we've chosen

ROGER & MARK

How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?

How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?

ROGER

How do you start a fire when there's nothing

to burn and it feels like something's stuck in your flue?

MARK

How can you generate heat

When you can't feel your feet?

ROGER & MARK

And they're turning blue!

MARK

You light up a mean blaze

ROGER

With posters -

MARK

And screenplays

ROGER & MARK

How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?

How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?

COLLINS

How do you stay on your feet when on every street

It's "trick or treat" and tonight it's "trick"

"Welcome back to town" I should lie down

Everything's brown, and uh-oh

I feel sick

MARK

Where is he?

COLLINS

Getting dizzy

ROGER & MARK

How we gonna pay

TENANTS

How we gonna pay

How we gonna pay

ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

Last year's rent

MARK

"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"

ROGER

"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"

MARK

Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground

ROGER & MARK

And feel the heat of the future's glow

How do you leave the past behind

When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?

It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out

"Til you're torn apart

Rent!

ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

How can you connect in an age

Where strangers, landlords, lovers

Your own blood cells betray!

What binds the fabric together

When the ringing, shifting winds of change

Keep ripping away!

BENNY

Draw a line in the sand

And then make a stand!

ROGER

Use your camera to spar

MARK

Use your guitar

TENANTS

When they act tough - you call their bluff

ROGER & MARK

We're not gonna pay

ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

We're not gonna pay

We're not gonna pay

Last year's rent! This year's rent!

Next year's rent

Rent rent rent rent rent

We're not gonna pay rent!!

'Cause everything is RENT!!!

sorry...had too

[Vivian]

well i dont have the money to just up and move right away. I am currently looking through listings for other apartments in my area to see what is available. I also wrote the landlord a letter expressing once again all the issues with the apartment, listing the items that I brought up previously that he has not addressed, and telling him that if he expects my rent to be paid in full, I expect these items to be addressed immediately. Being the penny-pincher he is, he has in the past looked for the cheap/easy way out so theres a good chance we can haggle the rent hike down a bit because I will be demanding he fix literally anything and everything i can find wrong, hundreds of dollars worth of repairs, and I will continue these demands as long as my rent hike is in effect. Also later this week when I have some time off work I am going to go down to the library and look up what exactly are the laws/my rights as a renter.

I have not yet begun to fight!

In the end I need to move. Im ready for a nicer apartment anyways. this was my first apartment by myself and i do love it (even though its a shack, its my shack, lol) Even if i manage to haggle down the rent hike, we'll just be going through this again next year. The problem is that it really does cost a lot to move. I should look into finding a roommate and renting a bigger place.

I'm glad you're standing up for yourself. It takes guts to talk and demand change from a landlord. It's really costly to move, but in the long run, you'll be much happier. I kind of agree with creature of the nyte, roommates have their pros and cons. If you do decide to go with a roommate, make sure you know them really well and that you can trust them. My boyfriend let someone move into my house, without my knowledge or consent, and the guy turns out to be a nightmare. Attitude galore. So be careful with that.

~V

[Crazed Vampyress]

yea.. on the topic of roomates...

ive had my share. this is actually the only apartment ive had where i lived alone. i know how roomates can be. ive had some gruesome and some great. i also know what its like to live with me and have been a pretty good judge who id be great and who id be gruesome for.

i love living alone.

there are only like 2 people i know who i could see being a roomate with. neither of them are currently looking for a roomie, though. So most likely ill end up on my own wherever it is i end up.

thanks for the feedback!

[AstralCrux]

My mortgage payment is around 650 a month in Southfield. I opted out of renting b/c it doesn't make sense to me. However, if you look into buying- have a large surplus of money saved up and preferably know a decent amount about home repair (in my case make dad do it).

[TygerLili]

I don't know anything about real estate in the Mt Clemons area, but for a place in Oakland county where I live, with heat included, that sounds reasonable.

If you don't like it, though, why not at least look for something else that's more to your taste? Our old apartment in Southfield was reasonable enough, but it just got to the point that the conditions were so gross I didn't care how much money we were saving anymore. I actually wound up crying in the district mangers' office because I was so miserable there I just couldn't stand it anymore.

[Homicidalheathen]

How high is too high? Anything in Michigan, thats what. Why the hell do you people want to live here???

I am stuck because of kids.....college....a band now, buisness....jobs....family.....

But if I were young and free I would moooove!

I lived in AZ in the 80's. I payed 350 for a nice, roomy........had a pantry even...apartment on the bottom floor....my own patio.....one bedroom, half utilities included.

I come back and my bro has a crapy ass apartment in a so so area for 650??? NO utilities included.

I can imagine what it is now....prob close to 900 a month. Maybe even 1000 since it was a 'security building' lol you have to pay for some fat ass slob to sleep in front of a monitor while you get mugged out in the parking lot lol

Its cold here, baaad transit system if at all where you are.....

cost of living, high. Crime, high.

Dirty.....garbage everywhere......smog........not as bad as AZ but there is some, most of it blows to Canada....wave high!

The only cheap apartments here are in bad areas or areas with no work.

I ask, why the hell do people want to live here???

The weather sux ass.....people are mean and rude......I just don't get it. Its sooo crowded too.......

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Gah... I pay $1200 a month for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a pool and water front. Ai really wish i would have had more time to look around before I moved here.

[Homicidalheathen]

Damn thats high. I don't know how people with kids make it. Two people paying for everything.....maybe one.....oh wait I am doing that right now. WTF???

Those expensive apartements are hard enough with roomates pitching in on the other 2 rooms......soon everyone will be living with inlaws ect.....like in other countries. Hell it happens here.....I have lived in a house with 12 other people.....we slept on the kitchen floor even.