Take This Rent And Shove It!

• Posted on August 6, 2009 at 10:49 pm

I’m at a financial crossroads and must choose which path to take. Wow, that sounded very serious and deep. Here’s the situation: I moved two years ago into a new apartment which I really like. It is very much an upgrade from my last place. It has two bedrooms, a dining room, my own laundry room, a fireplace, balcony and a carport. It’s even a secured building. I LOVE the location ( I live 5 minutes from where I work) and it’s in a nice, quiet neighborhood. The only problem is, they raised my rent after the first year by $50 a month, which doesn’t sound too bad until I realized that’s an extra $600 a year I hadn’t budgeted for. If ANY of my friends that lived here weren’t already married, I could have one of them be my roomate. But since they all are, and I REFUSE to live with a stranger, the roomate route is out of the question.

After a year of paying this higher rent ($735!), I’m starting to get sick of it. I will NEVER be able to save up for a house at this rate. Soooo what do I do? I could move into a large studio way across town and only pay $420 a month, which would leave me with plenty of extra cash to save up for a house. But, after living here, I’m going to feel like a kid staying in a dorm room. AUGHHHHH! Where the hell is my rich husband?! I HATE moving. I DO NOT want to move again, but obviously I have to put on my big girl panties and make a mature decision about my financial future. Crap. Crap, shit, crap, shit, crap.

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