Where'm I gonna live?
 

Any area Dwellars need a roomie?

Including a 13 pound dog that will occasionally pee on the carpet?

My credit score is 25. Is that bad? But my mama's score is 500,000 and she'll co-sign... sometimes that will work for people...

All I need is a little cottage house in an area where I won't get killed. (And has high speed Internets) But all the official realtor listings under $900 are in areas where I will get killed. Should I get a teeny bit more spendy, to get into a place where the co-sign works? And then I'm in a plain brick building? Where it's hard to get the dog out every two hours? Will that be depressing? It's impossible to know.

You can come here. I have a three bedroom house with a full basement where you can jam. No garage, though, sorry.

totally. Move to Ohio. It's the Buckeye State!

rent here is ridiculously inexpensive (coz, you know, ohio sucks) and we have a lively local music scene. we really do! and Lexus Nexus. And Wright Pat AFB.

I'd let you live here for half the utilities and 200.00/month so long as you helped me with my computer issues (which are vast and many)

Oh, I have a fenced in yard, too. you can google street my house.

Not to mention her mad bj skilz
:bolt:

Gotta make the drive to Pottstown every week to rehearse though.

What's the line from As Good As It Gets... I think it's... "I'd be the luckiest man in the world if that would do it for me."

(said with a slight British accent)

Oh, very nice, Mr. Footfootfoot. I make a generous, plausible offer and you, you scoundrel, MOCK it! In a very offensive way towards my own person! A pox upon you!

(end British accent)

Oh, so no Ohio, then?

Actually, I don't blame you. It does sorta suck here. except for the cost of living.

Pottstown. And a bunch of clients who sometimes like to see me. Otherwise I would move anywhere.

/me silently withdraws her unseen offer.

Im on the verge of getting an apartment near cherry hill. I figure I will end yup with rent of $900 or there abouts. I just want to wait about a month to see what changes the new boss makes to my pay plan...

See? You are the one who keeps bringing it up!

I don't have room for a roommate, despite my love for a dog that occasionally pees on the carpet. My apartment building, however, does have one bedroom units available, I think for about what you are willing to pay. And, if you lease from my recommendation, I get a chunk of money off my rent.

I got about a month and a half to figure this out... if I matched your money imagine the place we could get. 1 year lease think about it

Yeah, if youre willing to live in nj.... We could probably get a really nice 2br for like $1500. I want a place to park my motorcycle and in unit laundry......

The timing might just work.

What about the turtle?

Doesn't he have his own house?

For that money, you could rent a whole block in Camden, but you'd have to build a wall around it to keep from getting killed.

You can rent a 3 bed, 1 bath, with garage, house in Maple Shade for $1600.
http://www.homes.com/rentals/NJ/City/MAPLE%20SHADE/

The problem is still my credit though. The lessor will probably want to run the credit of all people living there, and I don't want to fuck up your situation with your hunt for stuff... (I would never do that money-wise; I would always be able to make rent)

But ha haaa, check out this place and where it's located.

Good God DAMN, private entrances, full bath on the first floor AND full bath on the second floor, and you could walk to work, and both of us could even take in women-folk what with the privacy and it would be all copasetic.

http://www.homes.com/listing/photo/1...SHADE_NJ_08052

Good God DAMN there are ZERO human neighbors at that house. Public Storage, MAACO and Auto Max are the neighbors for this house.

Cool house! Only problem I see is that it is also for sale. Means potential for one year max before you have to leave. It takes me that long just to get settled in!

Ugh.

Yeah, well.... my credit is wrecked too. but I figure there are ways and ways of getting things done... cool house... I just can't do anything until I know if I still want to work in cherry hill.

that is a really cool house. AND if it's the last house on the left --- think of the possibilities!!


;)

PS My own house is the last house on the left so I know of what I speak.

You are all welcome to live with me. No rent, but it would be a long commute

...Living in a VAN down by the river... [/Matt Foley]

eta: UT, not BS

In 2014, I am planning to rent out my house and move to a nicer and larger place.

It is a single dwelling, with a fenced in yard, no close neighbors, nice yard, [will be] landscaped and utilities are fairly cheap. City water and sewer. Downsides, it gets HOT here, long way to to go Pottstown, and you will have to go outside with the dog because if you leave it outside, the hawks might take him away.

Limey for the win!

$1500 will get you you a damn nice pad in my neck of the woods.

'Course, you'll be in the woods...

Thanks, Grav!


Sent by thought transference

I think the time has come to further research the idea of a Cellar Commune.

Not some crazy drinkin' poison kind of commune, just a group of self-sufficient people who live on the same land and contribute their talents for the good of the community.

Those who can build, build. Those who can farm, farm. Those who can cook, cook. I volunteer to keep the books. Well, sure, I'd run the library but I'm also talking about the ledgers and stuff. I suppose we'll be able to sell some of produce and craftery to get needed items for the ranch.

I say no kids allowed. I like kids, sure, but this isn't that kind of commune. If you want that kind you can start one up or become a Mormon. I'm really only interested in non-breeding adults who have been downsized and outsized and undersized and oversized, who are sick of the rat race, who refuse to shuck and jive for the boss man.

Of course, we'll be off the grid but not completely: I for one would want interwebz.

It's just a rough sketch.

There is plenty of land out thisaway.

I know of one that is planned already. Not Cellar-specific, but still.

There is also a trans-specific thingie in the planning stages. I am watching that project, but I don't have a lot of hope. It requires investment and money is something that transpeople are chronically short of.

It's communism, I tellz ya!

Well, I tried to get all of you to move down to the old sewage lagoon, but nooo....

...Living in a VAN down by the old sewage lagoon... [/Matt Foley]

With jokes like that you'll never get into MonkeyCom. :rolleyes:

This is where I'm staying right now. Plenty of room for all.

Oh man, you're living it up! All I ever got was the poncho hooch I carried in my pack.

I admit it isn't bad. My guys take care of me

I'd be the looker-afterer if you allowed kids. Maybe even the edjumacator.
'Side from that I can cook.

Can't clean worth a damn though, so don't believe me at the interview.
Can sing, but not harmonise.
Don't deal well with conflict.
Can live without TV but need books.
Will not eat bananas or peanuts. Well, perhaps if I am literally starving, but funnily enough I've never experienced that.
Cannot be trusted with the keys to the liquor cupboard.

Am I still being considered?

PS - Sarge, that looks cosy.

So. Where are you gonna live?

For reals?

I DON'T KNOW

Can you stay with mom until you figure it out?

Worst case scenario. There will be other, better options such as living in North Philly where I'm more likely to survive.

[hugs]

Sorry dude, don't let it eat you up. You'll figure it out.

Not joking - consider buying a used camper (they can go really cheap) and move into a state park or other campgrounds. Rates are discounted during the winter. In fact, the Army Corps of Engineers hires campground hosts. Many campgrounds have wifi.

It's not that bad yet. I just have to work at it and the time to actually call places is not nigh. I'm aiming for a Nov. 1 move-in date but it's strange -- with the short sale, I don't have to leave the house until the bank actually decides to accept it. This averages three months and so I could play chicken and wait until Dec. 1 to get out. But with limited choices overall, with a dog, with a turtle, with bad credit but a good co-signer, it gets scary.

I'm getting really good at searches though, and I've worked out a few ways to tell which Craigslist entries are scammers. (they take actual realtor listings for the pictures and addresses, and then try to get you to wire them deposit money)

What's also scary is all the shit in my crawl space which I have to throw away somehow. Wow, I probably have to contract for a dumpster to get that done. Shit.

I wish I could do something tangible to help you.
I feel your anxiety Toad. Hugs.

Freecycle it.

Mentally ill people will take it and hoard it. Whatever it is.

Just depends on what your time is worth, dealing with them.

Freecycle is awesome, and sad, but awesome.

It's mostly dead weight. Huge computer monitor from 1999. My old waterbed. Paperwork from pre-2003. Water-damaged VHS tapes. Christmas decorations that two women abandoned. That sort of thing.

people will take it

especially if you put it on the curb with a sign that says "not free, please do not take, waiting for pick-up"

People will take everything except your paperwork. Maybe even that too, but you probably don't want mentally ill people to have it. A free waterbed? You're not thinking like a hoarder; you will have a dozen people bidding over who can come pick it up the soonest.

I gave away giant piles of rotted fencing and broken rocks. One old lady talked about how she was going to "build a doghouse" out of the fencing, and another was going to "make a path" in her garden. It was fucking construction debris!

It's only the frame of the waterbed

Right, so you just line it with heavy duty trashbags and fill it with water. The water will conform to bed shape. You'll have to sleep sitting up. And sandbags, you might want those. :lol:

Just burn the paperwork.

Styrofoam peanuts!

Have you looked at trailer parks? DO you qualify for section 8 housing?

We just moved Mom out of her house and had to do the same thing, but is was 2 households of "stuff" accumulated over 60 years. There was a house in the area that always had something on the front lawn with a handmade "for sale" sign on it. Mom knocked on their door and told them they could have anything they wanted from her house, for free, if they took it all. They took it all.

Styrofoam peanuts + H20 + sand + sunlight ===> NEW life on earth :worm: