[nabs-l] apartment resources

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Hello all:
I'm looking to get into an apartment for next semester. I found a studio 
for $1900 (which is about as cheap as they get without being in a pretty 
bad area). It turns out it ends up to be around $3200 extra than I'd pay 
for staying in a dorm, which is nice but it affords me a lot more room. 
Here are the thoughts; perhaps someone has some thoughts.
I'm trying to avoid the dorm for a few reasons:
1) Last two roomates were pretty rough. Spring semester my roommate (who 
was the RA and supposedly more responsible) would frequently drop food 
on the ground and let O'Mally grab it. He should have the freedom to 
move around the room, so it was pretty hard and he ended up sick a lot. 
This last roommate was polled ahead of time--he was supposed to be 
comfortable with dogs. Turned out he wasn't and he developed "hives" 
around the middle of the semester but didn't want to move. He would 
physically push O'Mally away from him when he got to close.

Our beds are lofted above the desks and you can reach out and almost 
touch the bed across from you. This ment that O'Mally didn't have to 
much room to move around, it's a tight space for two people to begin with.

This next semester, I'm going to be in the same setup room, but it will 
be with one extra room. This means that I'm splitting the kitchen in 
five and not in three. The hardest part about that is I would order my 
entire months worth of groceries from peapod (so it'd take like $110) 
and I'd get $5 delivery, which was cheaper than getting a cab up to the 
store and back again. The next solution would be for me to get a cart 
and trek a mile to and from the store, which is doable. I'm mainly 
worried about winters--winters in Boston can be pretty rough and getting 
to the store will be hard. How have people tackled this, especially in 
snowy weather?

My second solution which I would greatly prefer to a tiny rectangular 
cell is an apartment. I do not have a cosigner that has the credit for a 
loan, but I'm trying to pull at least $4500 or so extra from what I 
usually get. Are there good resources for something like this?

Thanks a lot for your suggestions,

-- 
Take care,
Ty
http://tds-solutions.net
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