In What Do You Live / How Much For Rent?

[Deltaphoenix]

Own a 1200 sq foot house on a 1/2 acre lot, decent for being in the middle of town. It feels preety private, no neighbors behind me because the back of the property is on an alley. I can't see my neighbors on the sides. Mortgage and all utilities are about$1200 a month. My neighbor across the road is an old bass player, we talk about gear and stuff.

[Gozu]

i bedroom flat, £600 mortgage, BIG rooms and 2 minutes walk from everything in the city

[Jero]

2 bed/2 bath duplex. $750 + utilities, split between 2 people. My neighbors are fairly cool so we don't usually get bothered when practicing. The house is right across from a community college and in walking distance of almost anything/everything. The landlord doesn't even have late fees...at least he doesn't enforce them.

[Haki]

Apartment, about 600 sq ft; mortgage, taxes and utilities come in at € 725 a month. For sale sign has been hanging on my window for the past 2 years, had all of 1 viewer. Mainly want to move to a bigger place and a different part of town. But given the state of the market that will likely take years.

[sonidero]

Damn, the average downtown condo rent in Austin is like 2g's... I have a 2 story 1 bed 1.5 bath loftish 4 plex in South Austin that's a lil over 800 sqft and $750 a month... My landlord is cool, I've been here over 5 years and I can usually be as loud as I want... I live close to nature and can walk to anything...

[theavondon]

Three people living in a two bedroom one bath apartment right next to campus here in good ol Denton. Roughly $230 a month.

[Mike]

We own a house. Just short of 1900 sq ft. Built in 1920. Postage stamp city lot. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 9.5ft ceilings, hard wood floors throughout, 5 fireplaces

$710/month.

Gonna refi soon. Payment will drop below $500/month, and we'll get about $20k cash for energy efficiency upgrades (need 19 new windows, a $4k front door, a roof, and I have no insulation in my attic).

All of my weekends are spent doing home improvement, or building pedals.

Mike

[dubkitty]

i "own" an house, which is to say that i reside in a house of approximately 760 square feet in a lovely and delightful location perched on the side of a creek in the redwoods in which i have no equity whatsoever and which has a $485,000 mortgage. if the mortgage was not in unemployment-based forbearance at the moment the total (interest-only) payment would be in the neighborhood of $2250/mo., which was only affordable when my ex was still here. paradoxically, i have to find a job so i can move into a cheaper place, since my current unemployment-adjusted payments are $97.50/mo.

[deadbeatriot]

2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment in brooklyn. pretty big space for $1425 plus electricity, gas, and internet/cable/whatever. split between two people it's around 150-800 a month.

[warwick.hoy]

Married White Male

Rent $775 a month. Responsible for all utilities + putting furnace oil in the tank.

2 Bedroom 1 Bath (two bathrooms if you count the deteriorating one in the basement). I think it's somewhere around 2500 sq feet plus a detached garage.

[D.o.S.]

$450/month, 2 roommates, not counting utilities. Very spartan living space.

100% occupancy is fucking awful.

[warwick.hoy]

The only person I can stand to live with is my wife.

[colin]

Holy shit, I pay way more rent for way less than lots of you. Oh well, I guess that's what I get for living in BC, home of million dollar crack shacks.

[dubkitty]

The only person I can stand to live with is my wife.

after the disastrous roommate thing i just went through with an old friend, my policy now is that i won't live with anyone i'm not sleeping with. it's just too much trouble to put up with someone else's eccentricities unless i'm deeply emotionally enough involved with them that i can be honest, forthright, and leave the bedroom door open so the cat can get in and out at night. and i absolutely have to be able to be myself and do the things i do without interference...i will no longer put up with shit about smoking dope, playing electric guitar at midnight, or listening to Raw Power on my morning commute. buy some fucking earplugs: this is who i am. learn to enjoy "If They Move, Kill 'Em" or go out to the grocery store.

[snipelfritz]

.i will no longer put up with shit about smoking dope, playing electric guitar at midnight, or listening to Raw Power on my morning commute.

How is any of that strange at all? I'd say I'd be your roomie, but I don't want to have to sleep with you...