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05-04-2009, 05:15 PM
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05-04-2009, 05:16 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | Waste of money, IMHO. |
05-04-2009, 05:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Looks good. Reminds me of an old apartment my brother had... he loved it.
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05-04-2009, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | If you can get a house for that much, i would find a dumpy house, that way you dont have to worry about trashing it when you have parties. |
05-04-2009, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cedar Falls, IA | | | Who gets the bedroom with the balcony? That would be awesome. You could put a babe magnet out there.
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05-04-2009, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by theory028  Who gets the bedroom with the balcony? That would be awesome. You could put a babe magnet out there. | We'll figure that out when we move in  |
05-04-2009, 05:40 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Linas If you can get a house for that much, i would find a dumpy house, that way you dont have to worry about trashing it when you have parties. | +1
Even better was having a dumpy house with a huge backyard.
But nice apartment or dumpy house, I'd still never have wanted to live anywhere but the dorms my first year. They were cramped, the food sucked and my roommate Wes and I hated our other roommate, but I met so many friends. |
05-04-2009, 05:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO +1
Even better was having a dumpy house with a huge backyard.
But nice apartment or dumpy house, I'd still never have wanted to live anywhere but the dorms my first year. They were cramped, the food sucked and my roommate Wes and I hated our other roommate, but I met so many friends. | I agree, I met three of my best friends in the dorms. Three years later, we're still best friends, living together and everything.
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05-04-2009, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Madison, WI | | | How long does the $2000 get you? A month? |
05-04-2009, 05:57 PM
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05-04-2009, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ErebusBass How long does the $2000 get you? A month? | Looks like it. I pay that much a semester.
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05-04-2009, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa | | | $2,000/mo. for a really nice place (not knowing his location) is a good deal relative to what many colleges charge for dorm rooms which are FAR, far worse accommodations.
If you want to say he's dumb for getting this apartment, he may be even dumber for dorming. I never dormed, but at my college the current rate is just a little less expensive than that apartment, is much more crowded (one bathroom for four people even in the senior dorm), and you have to live under the ever watchful scrutiny of campus security. If you ask me, off-campus wins.
As for house vs. apartment, that depends on how much effort you want to put into it. A house is great for some people, and not for others. In some ways I could see myself preferring a swank apartment to a dumpy house. |
05-04-2009, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric618 Fixed it for you. | +1....and bragging for the loss.
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05-04-2009, 06:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Pfft, that's got nothing on where i'm staying now.
I bet you don't even have fancy concrete block textured walls 
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05-04-2009, 07:17 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | I think that if the parents are good for the money, then why not go for it. What matters most is how you handle it. If you throw a party every weekend and let your "friends" trash the place, then you're the dupe. If you take advantage of the comfort and lack of distractions to hit the books as hard as you can, then you win. Reality will probably be somewhere in between. |
05-04-2009, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | huge waste, i'm living with 4 people now in college (granted I'm the only one in the house actually in college), paying like 350 a month for EVERYTHING. Try and save some money, you may need it.
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05-04-2009, 07:24 PM
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05-04-2009, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Austin, Texas | | | Pretty much everyone who lives at that place is a jerk. Well that is to say, every last person I've met that lived there, was a jerk. And they also managed to mention that they are rich, or that daddy is rich, or something along those lines. I could see it being an option for the young who happen to be upwardly mobile, but they usually know better than to spend rediculous money on an apartment thats not even in that great a location. Sorry...
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05-04-2009, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chriss62 Pretty much everyone who lives at that place is a jerk. Well that is to say, every last person I've met that lived there, was a jerk. And they also managed to mention that they are rich, or that daddy is rich, or something along those lines. I could see it being an option for the young who happen to be upwardly mobile, but they usually know better than to spend rediculous money on an apartment thats not even in that great a location. Sorry... | what did guy said, minus meeting people there, i have no idea where its to.
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05-04-2009, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Austin, Texas | | | P.S. Austin has nice houses for that price. Get a house. GET A HOUSE! Try the new Mueller area. Very nice...
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