Nooooo.....
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nwhikerLinnea was supposed to room with another girl, A, from the rowing team next year. They've been looking for something off and on, not very energetically imo, but they contacted a few places etc.
Then this weekend, A got offered a deal too good to refuse: her bestie lives in a shared house and a room came unexpectedly free and it's really cheap.
A offered to share said (tiny) room with Linnea, but Linnea wisely declined. But now she's solo looking for a place, which is just fucking impossible.
UGH.
ETA. And I'm caught in the middle, with two inflexible people on either side:
-- Dh seems to think she can find something in the $800 range, which is ridiculous unless you have loads of roommates, and she can't find a roommate at all, or you get a room in the of the four room apartments, where they just go ahead and fill it up, you have no choice. She's -rightly imo- freaked out about this since they ALSO don't provide locking rooms, so your random roommates can get into your room at any point. WTF, ya know?
-- Linnea who refuses to consider anything with more than one roommate and right now doesn't have even one.
B'ham rentals are expensive, ugh. Studios go for 1100 and up, and those aren't the nice ones. Found one place, one bedroom for $700 but the neighborhood is a bit sketch, and it may -or may not- have a kitchen. LOL. I found one place for $1000 but the baseboards were chewed up, and there were wires hanging around the walls and roof. Didn't look right. Everything is complicated by the fact that Linnea doesn't drive.
Then this weekend, A got offered a deal too good to refuse: her bestie lives in a shared house and a room came unexpectedly free and it's really cheap.
A offered to share said (tiny) room with Linnea, but Linnea wisely declined. But now she's solo looking for a place, which is just fucking impossible.
UGH.
ETA. And I'm caught in the middle, with two inflexible people on either side:
-- Dh seems to think she can find something in the $800 range, which is ridiculous unless you have loads of roommates, and she can't find a roommate at all, or you get a room in the of the four room apartments, where they just go ahead and fill it up, you have no choice. She's -rightly imo- freaked out about this since they ALSO don't provide locking rooms, so your random roommates can get into your room at any point. WTF, ya know?
-- Linnea who refuses to consider anything with more than one roommate and right now doesn't have even one.
B'ham rentals are expensive, ugh. Studios go for 1100 and up, and those aren't the nice ones. Found one place, one bedroom for $700 but the neighborhood is a bit sketch, and it may -or may not- have a kitchen. LOL. I found one place for $1000 but the baseboards were chewed up, and there were wires hanging around the walls and roof. Didn't look right. Everything is complicated by the fact that Linnea doesn't drive.
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