College Students! discussion

Hi all!
Just wanted to share my exciting news with all my GR buds! My roommate and I have just gotten an apartment off campus! This is our first place on our own that is not on campus and we are both REALLY excited for it!
For all of you that are living on your own now, or even those that arent, I am wide open to tips and suggestions on what kind of things are essential to my living-alone experience, decorating tips, moving tips, etc.

Thanks guys!

Congrats!! How exciting! I will be sure to give you some tips tomorrow! I was just getting ready to go to bed and saw this and wanted to say congrats!!

thats awesome, where i live its pretty safe, but the area is expensive, and we are surrounded by bad areas, drugs and gangs to the north, south, east and west and i am here in the middle of the most expensive areas and violence free, so i think i am gonna stay with my parents until i can afford a place of my own here in Mountaintop, safe and sound....

First advice for renters. Take before pictures of every bit of damage. It will save a headache for when you move out and they try to stick you with the fixing bills.

How exciting! Enjoy your new place.

Congrats!

Tami wrote: "First advice for renters. Take before pictures of every bit of damage. It will save a headache for when you move out and they try to stick you with the fixing bills.

How exciting! Enjoy your ne..."


Such a good idea! Thank you!

Thanks for all the congrats! My roomie and I are so excited! 20 more days until we move!
Rutland is a pretty rough area but where we are living is a nice area and right next to the library! yayayay! :)

Then that brings up a second piece of advice: Libraries can be dangerous! Don't lose track of school related reading. :) Enjoy!

Haha thank you Tami. I seem to have that problem now! Not enough hours in the day to do the reading I want to do and the reading I have to do!

I unfortunately had a bad experience with my first time in an apartment. The landlord was a total jerk and refused to pay for any repairs that were his fault.

I would recommend asking around or find out if you know anyone who has rented there before just to get a feel of the landlord. Location is key too,next to a library is pretty awesome :)

Hey all! Thanks for all your help with the apartment! I am IN! My roomie and I are totally settled and I LOVE IT! It's so nice to have a place all my own :)

Thats great!

Congrats. Enjoy it.

I'm reviving this thread for my own purposes...hope you don't mind Annie...
I am planning to move next month and next week am planning an apartment viewing extravaganza. I've lived on my own before and moved quite a bit but everytime I was kind of rushed so I just chose the first one. This time I am actually taking some time to be picky, only problem is that I don't know what to be picky about and I foresee myself getting overwhelmed and forgetting important things so I am going to bring a list. This is where you gals and guys come in; what should go on the list? So far I've got laundry, lease, parking, paid utilities, heat...I know there are more any ideas?

A biggie is commute time to school, work, shopping, etc. Especially if there is public transportation to factor in. Almost as important as parking.

Places also give you some type of vibe. Usually a first impression. Go with one that you are okay with, like or even love. If you hate it right off, even if everything else it okay, that could be a hard place to live.

Location is a biggie on my list, currently I'm not even looking at places outside of walking distance...and I don't drive to parking is mainly for guests.

I live at home and we live in an awesome location. We are right across the street from an elementary school. We 5-10 minutes from two different libraries. We live 5 minutes away from BART and downtown. Luckily for my mom she doesn't have to pay mortgage. My grandparents paid off the house long time ago.