Is this appropriate for a first apartment?

Originally posted by Terry Bogard



So I should get a house when I get out there?

Sheesh, maybe thats a good idea.

Just do yourself a favor and speak to an agent first. It\'s not that much more expensive and the fact that every dollar your spending per month goes back in your pocket when you sell the house later is great! Buying a house is an investment.

[videoholic]

I would not advise buying a house right when you move to a completely new area.   You really don\'t know enough about the area to make sure you are buying in a rising community.  My house is worth 140% more than when I bought it and that was only 4 years ago.  That is because I figured out where I could profit.  Now I will take that extra money and buy my next house.  On and On.

Originally posted by Videoholic
I would not advise buying a house right when you move to a completely new area.   You really don\'t know enough about the area to make sure you are buying in a rising community.  My house is worth 140% more than when I bought it and that was only 4 years ago.  That is because I figured out where I could profit.  Now I will take that extra money and buy my next house.  On and On.

I will say that is good advice as well Video, but if he finds a good agent (and there are ones out there), he could find some of the money making areas that way. My agent led me to a great location and in the past two years my house has increased in value @37%. Not the earnings that your looking at, but darn good for my location.

So basically Video hit it right on the nail....Wait a few years before I ponder the House Idea?


I guess I\'ll go with the apartment then.

I live with my parents.

It sucks.

Edit:


This is looking to be the likely canidate now.


http://www.apartments.com/search/oasis.dll?page=AVsummary&property=103459.11.0&resultpos=1&area1=Y&subarea2=Y&status=12&state=ca&rgn3=20&prvpg=8&srt1=0.36&srt2=0.53&srt3=0.63



I can\'t decide...

Somebody tell me what Utilites are a must, cuz im clueless on MOST of them.

Originally posted by Luke
I live with my parents.

It sucks.

Been ther, done that. And yes it sucks. Hey the least I can do is give you the same advice I gave Terry....naahhhh.

thats the boat I am in..  I was just closing on a house when I got laid off.  Now they want me to go work down in Philly, houses are a hellva lot cheaper down there then they are up in Boston..

But I am going to move down there first, live there for a year before I decide to buy a place.  Hey I might not like, so gotta play your cards right..  Plus I don\'t know the area at all, so it would be really hard to buy a house down there from up here.

Just be carefull and make your decisions with some thought...

[videoholic]

Originally posted by Terry Bogard
Edit:


This is looking to be the likely canidate now.


http://www.apartments.com/search/oasis.dll?page=AVsummary&property=103459.11.0&resultpos=1&area1=Y&subarea2=Y&status=12&state=ca&rgn3=20&prvpg=8&srt1=0.36&srt2=0.53&srt3=0.63



I can\'t decide...

Somebody tell me what Utilites are a must, cuz im clueless on MOST of them.

Phone?  Well if you live by yourself and you get a cell plane with a billion minutes you don\'t need a phone.

Electricity, well I guess you need that so you can still get on PS2 Central.

Ohh, you need a phone line for that too unless you get cable modem.  

Water!!!  That\'s a must.  Cause you be stinky without it.

So Water and electric that\'s about it.

You don\'t have to have cable or phone, but it\'s hard to impress the chicks with rabbit ears on your tv.

Oh yeah, get a maid!!  They are great.  For about 40 bucks a month in a little apartment like that you can always look like a clean freak.  Chicks dig that.

Originally posted by Videoholic


Phone?  Well if you live by yourself and you get a cell plane with a billion minutes you don\'t need a phone.

Electricity, well I guess you need that so you can still get on PS2 Central.

Ohh, you need a phone line for that too unless you get cable modem.  

Water!!!  That\'s a must.  Cause you be stinky without it.

So Water and electric that\'s about it.

You don\'t have to have cable or phone, but it\'s hard to impress the chicks with rabbit ears on your tv.

Oh yeah, get a maid!!  They are great.  For about 40 bucks a month in a little apartment like that you can always look like a clean freak.  Chicks dig that.

Im going to get cable, thats for sure, I can\'t stand this crap 56k download time and stuff.  So basically thats all I need eh? Sweet.

You can buy a cheap electric heater if you want, but sometimes people think gas is a nice thing to have... especially for a water heater.  You\'ll also need to pay for garbage, but nowadays that\'s usually included with your water bill.  It all depends.  Here in california, just dont live in the bay area.  Live outside of it and commute here instead.  To put things in perspective, a one story 2 bedroom 1 bathroom decent sized living room and a fair size kitchen, house in San Francisco goes for about 400,000, but you can get that same thing, but 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, living room, big ass kitchen spread out over 2 floors with a 2 car garage and back yard, etc etc, for like 300,000 in Sacramento (2 hours away from SF)... it really all depends.  Choose wisely is all I\'m going to say.

I\'d recommend that you go with a small super cheap apartment first (make sure you have great credit) and work at a job for about 6 months and work your ass off and show them that you really are a great worker (job security = best thing for you nowadays) and then go ahead and go for that house.