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Old 10-28-2016, 07:44 PM   #2
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Lower Montgomery County PA, Collegeville to Norristown: welcome to the edge of the metropolis.

$750 is the minimum section 8 available and you may die

$750-1000 is that one bedroom in ghetto-y circumstances

$1000-1100 is someone's second floor that they are renting out, and your best bet for daily access is probably the fire escape. It's OK, just don't scare the cat. Or do anything at all really

$1100-1300 is cheaper managed places. Some bugs, second-rate appliances, institutional ugly brick, the neighbors are shady... but suddenly, at the top end, you find the smallest apartments in a few of the nicer managed buildings. As long as you can fit in 580 sq ft. Oh there is a storage closet. But it got robbed last year so don't keep anything nice there. Yeah no bikes.

$1300-1500 finally into 1 BR at better managed places, and two BR at the cheaper managed places. Now you get your own washing machine. Do you like the smell of curry?

$1850 1BR top buildings, pool, keyfob access, parking, tennis court, manicured lawn, snow removal, trash bins, 24 hr service, live like a goddamn human being

$2400 live like a goddamn human being right off the best exits of I-476, instead of 20 minutes of traffic jam away


The shithole I rented, where the roof caved in and the sewage froze up, was $1050 and it cost $2000 to heat in the winter. Well it was a house and there was a ton of space. All moldy, but it did have space.
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