Re:I need to find an apartment
by novocantico on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:21PM
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You gotta get creative. Walking down the street I met this one guy who's like 70, eccentric, military vet, owns the house, and rents it out individual rooms for $550/month. He's paid off the mortgage, just needs to pay taxes, and he's clearly making a profit since he's retired and constantly has new projects working on the house. For context that's 1/3 asking price out here.
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Re:I need to find an apartment
by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:34PM
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How is getting lucky walking down the street "creative", exactly?
He perhaps asked every person that walked by? That would be more creative than looking at the post popular ad site.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by LudwigNagasena on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:24PM
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Harassing strangers is not really something I would encourage no matter how creative it is.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by marcosdumay on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:30PM
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"Harassing" doesn't seem like the right word to describe asking questions to strangers. But he probably just moved around looking for announcements.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by Jataman606 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:51AM
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Speaking to other people is now harassing?
What a world we leave in
Re:I need to find an apartment
by novocantico on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:31PM
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Just keep your eyes open is all I mean. Life is strange, you never know what you're going to find.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by throwaway675309 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:25PM
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That's more of a banal aphorism then a piece of concrete actionable advice when trying to find a place to live. Expecting to get a rent below market rate by arbitrarily walking into somebody on the street is just...
Re:I need to find an apartment
by novocantico on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:42PM
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It's true, I omitted a vital piece of the puzzle. Without it, my comment's advice does really come down to "have luck".
"That's more of a banal aphorism then a piece of concrete actionable advice ..."
Are you kidding ?
It's the best piece of advice you'll read all year.
Go and do likewise!
Re:I need to find an apartment
by jthrowsitaway on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:24PM
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It's great that worked out for you. It'd be great if people didn't have to get creative to find basic housing.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by mdavis6890 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:50PM
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It would also be nice if we would stop voting for politicians that promise policies that limit supply - either directly and explicitly such as zoning laws, or as a consequence like rent control.
That happens because most people are property owners so the politicians want to keep them happy first.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by dimitrios1 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:30PM
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> It'd be great if people didn't have to get creative to find basic housing where they want to live
FTFY.
There is plenty of basic housing. It just happens not to be where people are looking most of the time.
Since when did housing become a right?
Re:I need to find an apartment
by NullPrefix on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:33PM
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You mind if I crash on your couch for a while?
Yes I do. But I also pay council tax and my local authority provides social housing.
Since society decided it’s better to create housing than to allow an army of homeless people to burn the world to the ground.
Since the UN was founded, and human rights were stated.
To which court are you going to appeal for redress when those rights are not upheld? The UN declaration of human rights is nothing but an aspirational fiction.
Better an "an aspirational fiction" than nothing, or less than nothing under Putin.
Re:I need to find an apartment
by MikePlacid on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:53PM
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A bit earlier than that, actually:
[In 1917] the government spearheaded great changes in people’s lives, starting with housing. The Soviets nationalized private property and started the so-called “уплотнение” (housing compaction), giving rooms to working-class families in large central apartments that used to belong to [previous owners]. Note that renters were “compacted” too. This project officially laid the groundwork for the often bizarre kommunalka housing - a resilient symbol of the Soviet past. https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/331621-lenin-putin-soviet-rus...
So you are having problems looking for a 2bd apartment for a family of 3? What about one room in an apartment with a bath shared by 4 other families?
Re:I need to find an apartment
by throwawayboise on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:28PM
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In the past I've done something like this: pick the neighborhood you're interested in. Go there and walk or drive around looking for "For Rent" signs. Look at public bulletin boards in markets and laundromats. Start making calls.
That worked in the 1990s. Not sure it's viable today.