I am totally surprised that no one has pointed out the severe love humans have for hanging out in in floating objects (balloons/zepplins/blimps/etc..). Celine wrote a great book about his coming of age and dealing with a crazed balloonist inventor for a mentor. try "death on the installment plan" and begin to realize how nice you have it.
xoxo,
virgil
www.rawk.org
photos of, um, rock bands.
I have bad news. There are few to no living spaces in the city and bay aarea in general. What ones there are are expensive and pretty hard to
come by overall.
I spent almost two months surfing couches of very good friends until I made a combination of decisions. I knew that I could not afford my own
place (nor had the proper rental history to do so - not that mine is bad, but just compromised of mostly shared living situations that never show up
on your credit history...). I looked into roommate referral services and followed craigslist religiously (www.craigslist.org).
I had good credit (thought sparse), a great demeanor, a real job and (after the first couple weeks of looking) the willingness to break my rent
ceiling of under 600 bucks.
Finally after what seemed like forever I got a place. Not my own, but a room in a flat. I pay 650, plus utils, cable and everything else. I also
paid a security deposit and first and last moths rent. Just to get a room was almost 2000 bucks.
My suggestion?
1) Have really close friends that know and love you already living in the City.
2) Be ready to get your own place (and pay at least 1000 for a studio in the heart of the ghetto aka; the beeyootiful Tenderloin).
3)check these places out
http://www.metrorent.com/
http://www.renttech.com/
http://www.RoommateLink.com/
http://www.therentalsource.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/
the last being where i got my place.
Sorry if this letter is so cynical, you might have a lot better luck than me.
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I am totally surprised that no one has pointed out the severe love humans have for hanging out in in floating objects (balloons/zepplins/blimps/etc..). Celine wrote a great book about his coming of age and dealing with a crazed balloonist inventor for a mentor. try "death on the installment plan" and begin to realize how nice you have it. xoxo, virgil www.rawk.org photos of, um, rock bands.
I have bad news. There are few to no living spaces in the city and bay aarea in general. What ones there are are expensive and pretty hard to
come by overall.
I spent almost two months surfing couches of very good friends until I made a combination of decisions. I knew that I could not afford my own
place (nor had the proper rental history to do so - not that mine is bad, but just compromised of mostly shared living situations that never show up
on your credit history...). I looked into roommate referral services and followed craigslist religiously (www.craigslist.org).
I had good credit (thought sparse), a great demeanor, a real job and (after the first couple weeks of looking) the willingness to break my rent
ceiling of under 600 bucks.
Finally after what seemed like forever I got a place. Not my own, but a room in a flat. I pay 650, plus utils, cable and everything else. I also
paid a security deposit and first and last moths rent. Just to get a room was almost 2000 bucks.
My suggestion?
1) Have really close friends that know and love you already living in the City.
2) Be ready to get your own place (and pay at least 1000 for a studio in the heart of the ghetto aka; the beeyootiful Tenderloin).
3)check these places out
http://www.metrorent.com/
http://www.renttech.com/
http://www.RoommateLink.com/
http://www.therentalsource.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/
the last being where i got my place.
Sorry if this letter is so cynical, you might have a lot better luck than me.
I hope so.
Virgil