rents

[akinaspeedstar]

so my lease is up on the place im at now and i've been looking at new apartments.

and holy hell! how are people affording this crap?!? i found my old apartment for rent in gorham it was a shit hole. the floors were crooked the wall paper was peeling off there was one light switch everything else was pull strings weird round walls... ect. i rented it for $500 with heat and HW back in 04 now? 800. with nothing included. i thought 500 was a little steep for the place when i was there!

the only thing im finding i can afford is a crappy little studio in like maine med area or something out in lewiston. WTF?

luckly i can stay at my dads camp in sebago for a little while so im not sleeping in my car. but sebago to sopo is a hike and everything i own is going to be stuffed into this little camp.

 

[Redline]

Wow... for once I can say this...

MA is cheaper! <diabolical laughter here>

Seriously - 1200 sq ft, 2 bedroom/2 level apartment, nothing included - $895/mo. Located in a quiet section, mostly safe neighborhood. 5 mins off of I-495, with easy commute to many area businesses. Awesome features, large bathroom, dining room seperate from kitchen, huge livingroom and large walk-in closets.

Only annoyance is the extremely creaky floorboards tend to wakeup little STM.

 

[Pedro]

wrong time of year man.

 

[akinaspeedstar]

that and with fuel costs and people losing homes and such rents have gone way up in the last 8 months. so i either sleep in my car in the work parking lot rent a shit hole somewhere i don't want to live or try and find a roomate i'll end up hating haha.

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

Couldn't agree with you more. We've been looking for a place near Portland for the longest time and no luck so far. The rents ppl are asking are outf***ngrageous. 1-2 br for 1000$ - WTF uke:!!!! And when you go to look at those places, - seems likelandlords are not aware of a simple things, such as upkeep, etc.

Soo, we're even considering an option of finding a roommate to rent a decent house with, but we barely know anybody. It sucks.

Wanna go together on a house? :wave:

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

BTW, I'm not sure there's places in L/A for under 800

If there;s then probably neighboring some ghetto folks from downtown

 

[Jimbo]

Check out Dolley Brook Farm condos in Westbrook. They're 2br units with natural gas heat (with elec backup) and elec hot water. Oh, and they're cheap. I think TyTy is familiar with 'em, too.

Call Emerald Management in Westbrook (Google for the number) and ask for Raylynn. I was paying $820 up to about a month ago.

 

[Ty Ty]

They're pretty nice inside. :thumbsup:

 

[Lawdawg]

buy

 

[akinaspeedstar]

yeah see 800 something way more then i can afford. basicly to be able to eat and by gas i need a rent in the sub 650 range. so buying is almost comepleatly out. and i have a good friggen job i work for wright express and have for 3 years. but i guess it's time to find something knew when 11.40 wont pay the bills.

 

[Redline]

^ the real reason why people get married/live together. :happy3:

(Not that my 3 jobs, bringing in almost $1000/wk does me any good right now...)

 

[akinaspeedstar]

i end up hating all my roomates or they end up hating me in a short amount of time. and if i could find a girl who would put up with me ... well.... you guys write your own jokes haha.

 

[Shorty]

I see what you mean, deaf and blind girls are tough to find.

 

[Ty Ty]

:laughing4:

 

[saabaru]

Rent does suck. I lucked out a year ago, renting a room in a house. Lucky my roommates are chill. Stlill have my time...

Good Luck. Might want to buy some small condo in the Portland area.

 

[katnip]

being single could get you a long way to a low income loan to buy a house or condo. check it out!

 

[saabaru]

being single could get you a long way to a low income loan to buy a house or condo. check it out!

Elaborate more?.... Been looking, but have not found anything I fell in love with.(at least in my price range)

 

[katnip]

there are lots of programs for the "low income" and as a single person, you probably qualify as low income

check out: http://www.mainehousing.org/

figure out what you can reasonably afford monthly for a mortgage and start looking in your price range, this is a GOOD instance of where a buyers realtor could help.

 

[akinaspeedstar]

i have talked with them. ( thanks smosh!!!!!) and a mortage broker im aproved for barely 110k which in greater and ever way outer portland.... is nothing. plus i don't know if this is where i want to stay so i don't know if i want to get locked into a house.

and joel it would mostly be deaf. hahaha

who knows something will work out it always does but god rents are expensive in southern maine! christ you could buy a decent house for the rents they are charging.