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Originally Posted by MPREZIV
You have to remember being 21 and broke as hell too dude... if you were broke as hell at 21. Not all of us were. I sure as hell was, and even $500 was a stretch sometimes!
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No doubt. I was living in San Luis Obispo at 21, where a 2 bedroom apartment required four people to be affordable at $1600/mo (and those are 1998 dollars), it was tough to make ends meet even getting financial help from the folks at the time.
But I don't know Em's situation. If she's got a $1000/mo budget, I think looking into renting a house is the way to go because you can get so much more for the money than an apartment, simply because there are a ton of people with "extra" houses they bought as investments that they're forced to rent because they're worth $100,000 less than they owe on 'em. You'd think you could hook up a nice place for relatively low money. For example, the place Lisa and I were renting before we bought our current house we were paying only $1350 for... and that was a 1400sqft 3 bedroom place, with pretty damn large bedrooms. $1350 is about what I was paying when I lived in a 3 bedroom unit on South Meadows 5 years earlier!