Apartment hunting

[Dan]

I'm sure this has got to be a common problem for students. I'm travelling from where I worked for the summer to the city where I go to school (Vancouver). But it's impossible to find a place to live without actually being in the city to look at places. So here I am in Vancouver now with no place to live. Luckily I found a nice temporary room for the week at $20 a night. But now it's the start of the month and all of the choice places are disappearing. What's left are overpriced ghetto slums or really overpriced dingy basements or really really overpriced decent apartments.

Makes me feel like I'm the only student who doesn't want to sleep with silverfish. One of the places I visited today the person showed me the bedroom that was obviously being lived in by someone and there were condom wrappers on the mattress. Yeah real nice touch. Anybody have some tips on apartment hunting? Or atleast some humorous stories.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

ROom up with someone. Saves money.

I've never had to stay in a shitty place so I have no funny stories though a lot of deadbeats owe me money.

 

[Dan]

Yeah, the shitty places all include shitty roomates in the deal.

 

[Krynn72]

When I moved here for school, I moved into an apartment I had never been to along with a guy I met on the internet.

Im serious.

 

[Beerdude26]

When I moved here for school, I moved into an apartment I had never been to along with a guy I met on the internet.

Im serious.

So, how long did it take until buttsechs?

 

[Krynn72]

Hasnt happened yet

 

[Greatgat]

Then you're not even trying!

On topic, I don't really have any advice other than room it up with some people. I've probably been fortunate that I've always gotten along with my roomies. Makes things a lot easier.

 

[AmishSlayer]

I had to apartment hunt quickly when I came back to shcool. We had about 2 days before everything started to disappear. My roomate and I talked to a bunch of people and saw a bunch of terrible places. One of them was an apartment above a dingy house. There were cracks in the walls, it smelled like french fries and it was tiny. The guy showing it to us made it very clear that no cops ever came around and there weren't any neighbors to hear our screams. Downstairs there was a family living there that creeped us out. The dad looked like the dad from that American Chopper show without hair and the kids all had shaved heads and were running around outside with their shirts off.

It was like American History X the home game. We left immediately.

However we found a really nice, brand new apartment complex with nice hardwood floors in the kitchen/dining area and everything kicks ass. It's so new we had to wipe some of the cupboards to clean off the sawdust.

 

[Krynn72]

Yeah, our place is called Summerwalk. The month before we moved in, it had gotten the nicknames "Murderwalk" and "Summerkill" because somebody got murdered with an AK-47. Oh, and the second day we moved in, our door mat got stolen.


Seriously... wtf. A Door mat?

 

[ComradeBadger]

I love living with people.

I have a rather fetching house, just off the highstreet, and it's cheaper than most!

 

[Majestic XII]

Apartment hunting?

Clicked a button on a homepage and boom done Now i live on the 12:th floor in a newly built "skyscraper" (18 floors are enough to call it a skyscraper in Swedeland). I love it.

 

[Dan]

It's day 3 now of full time apartment searching. My nerves are starting to fry a bit. Basically I am spending a lot of time hanging around coffee shops picking up wireless and refreshing craigslist over and over. As soon as something new comes up I call them up and jump on bicycle or bus and book it there to try to be the first person to visit. I'm drinking several cups of coffee a day to get access to wireless spots and I don't normally even drink coffee so my nerves are all shot from the caffein and the stress of running around finding places to live. Vancouver sucks.

 

[Krynn72]

You could just buy coffee and not drink it.

And just randomly picking an apartment seemed to have worked out really well for me... try it :thumbs: