Houses Houses Everywhere, Yet none to rent that are good!
I’m so completely over looking for a new flat that it’s not funny! Sometimes I think it would be easier just to buy but i’m not going down that road until I get a decent deposit.
We unfortunately need to move out of the place we are in now as our flatmates are moving out and we don’t really want to try and find someone else in there, for a start we would need a couple and I wouldn’t get an exercise/office room like I want so blegh to that idea.
So we have found a few in our price range but they suck, i’m ready to move into a nice place and there is a really nice one for rent, but it’s on the market for sale – we’ve been in a house that was on the market and it was just annoying so we’d rather not do that again. And it has 4 rooms, but it is reasonably expensive so we would need a flatmate, but we could handle just one person, did I mention its really nice? Pretty much brand new!
We are also looking at another place that’s in our price range but it’s really old and tired, the kitchen isn’t very nice but the rest is ok, just ok – I hate feeling ok about a house.
Photo’s are just for the sake of this post not being so boring, not the actual houses.
Both of the houses are in ok areas, the nice one is in a better area though. I think we’re going to end up in the older cheaper house, maybe i’ll make a compromise, we go to the cheaper house for a year then look for something nicer and newish? Oh I don’t know, buy heaps of shoes so I can afford the nice new house please 😛
Have you said enough is enough and moved into a nice house? Would you rather be in a cheaper not so nice house to save the pennies, or go for the more luxurous living?
I’m attempting to look for houses to move out to aswell. It’s so hard deciding where though. We have several options. The Hutt (I love the Hutt), stay in Pram, move to Wellington, or somewhere in the middle like Johnsonville. None of the options are particularly ideal. It’s doing my head in trying to decide. Also, I hate having to ring up and inquire about viewing houses and them viewing them alone! I always feel like I’m looked down upon since I’m just a youngin. Who wants to rent a house to a student?!
I would always look at houses in my work clothes so that people didn’t look down on me as much, it is hard being young and looking for somewhere, but provided you can give them references and pay the rent they won’t care! Looking by yourself does suck, I’m attempting to take the boy to look at the cheaper place tomorrow so at least someone else can say if it sucks or not.
Try and go somewhere in the middle I reckon, unless you will spend a bomb travelling backwards and forwards during the week/weekend, I imagine outside of welly would be quiet a bit cheaper?
flat hunting sucks!! thankfully, I have always done pretty well on flats, and not had to compromise too much on quality, actually who I am kidding, my places have always been pretty awesome! I did end up *splurging* for a while at my last place after a couple broke up and we had to decide whether we could all bear the rent increase or move out.. we decided to stay and I ended up paying $190, but that was for a super awesome place, big room, 30 seconds from courtenay place that I loved to bits!
How long have you been looking for? I guess there’s not as much to choose from up there, but I generally find if you look at enough you find something just perfect? When I was a student we looked at up to 200 places every year before we found something liveable.
Just think though, as long as it is ‘tidy’ and not damp etc you can always spruce it up a bit yourself with art and pretty things, while putting the savings towards your house deposit (sooner than if you picked the fancy place). Good luck 🙂
That house sounds awesome and that price doesn’t sound that bad for welly! I even looked at Auckland house prices just to make myself feel better about this, lol.
We’ve been actively looking for about 3 weeks but I have been keeping an eye out over the past few months to see what is out there.
One of the houses I looked at last week would have been perfect except for the fact that it felt damp and there was already mould on the ceilings, yeah no thanks, not compromising our health!
I think the main thing I don’t like is the kitchen, perhaps I should just get over it and do it, even if for only 6 months or so until we see something better come up, and your right we can make it look nicer with pretty things, that and the rent difference is $140 a week if we couldn’t get a flatmate for the nice place, so $7k a year, that would be a nice chunk of change for a house deposit.