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[unbibium]

If I renew my lease at my current apartment, it's $795 a month. My current complex has 75% occupancy, in a neighborhood that's improving but not fast enough.

I can get an apartment in a much better neighborhood for as little as $740 for a one-bedroom, $720 for a studio, in complexes with 92-97% occupancy, at the Lakes in Tempe.

Unfortunately, it means I'd have to move, and live a 20-minute bus ride away from my current office, and a 35-minute bus ride away from the new office.

Also, none of these places have the same huge amount of storage, therefore I'd have to either get a storage unit or give away lots of crap.

I should decide before I leave for New Orleans, because if I go month-to-month, my rent here goes up to nearly $900.

Comments

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I'd give stuff away, move to the Lakes, get a one-bedroom ($20/month is a cheap price to pay for the likely improvement in both space and kitchen, but judge for yourself).

All of that is assuming that the Lakes is roughly equivalent to the other resources, i.e. shopping, groceries, bus-lines to good places, late-night eats, decent pizza/chinese food delivery.

Also, you said the Lakes had better neighborhood; maybe that includes the above, but how is the development itself? How's laundry? Traffic? Noise? Can you get a decent hookup to the intertubes? cell coverage?

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

All are things I need to ask davetheinverted.

I know there's a Whole Foods right there, but if I do all my shopping there I'll go brok0rxz.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Naw, you'll just buy less food. That's why hippies are so thin.

[halfabee.livejournal.com]

First, with 75% occupancy, there's no way they should be increasing your rent.

Second, a "nice" neighbourhood for me is one which is close to places I go on a regular basis - shopping, transit, laundry, etc. And unless you have some obnoxious or dangerous neighbours, where you live is often less important than what's close and how well the apartment suits you.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Out of the three apartments adjacent to mine, one is unoccupied, and the other two are occupied by people who don't bother me.

Out of the eight apartments immediately visible from my windows, four are unoccupied. Two have had their renovations completed for a while now. One still has giant blue tape X's on the windows. And another still has half a sticker saying "this apartment has been sealed by the constable" from three months ago.

The other four are occupied. One has a neighbor that's been kinda OK but now his stereo is audible from my living room now that it's Open Window weather, and also NFL season and he yells at the TV. Another has a neighbor that used to also have stereo problems I could head. They could be a drug dealer, or a family with a buncha teenagers, probably the latter because now that school's back in session, I don't notice a lot of people coming and going there anymore.

A third has a rather nice elderly interracial couple that I've only started talking to recently. The man complains a whole lot because he remembers when all his neighbors were airline pilots.

[kirkjerk.livejournal.com]

It took me a second to realize what "Open Window" weather means in a place with a climate like that.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Same here-- for me it's getting to the time of year to consider closing the windows for once.

close stuff

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

OTOH, this place has a grocery store on the way home from my really-close workplace, and both a Blockbuster and a Hollywood Video, which no longer matters because of Netflix.

It's a bus hop from Arizona Mills in case I ever feel like getting assaulted by cell phone salesmen. It's also a bus hop from the ASU campus. And there's a QuikTrip on the corner, best convenience store ever. All things it shares in common with the new location.