Apartment
Yesterday I saw the most beautiful apartment, it's litterally across the street from where I work, it has a wall of windows, tons of natural light, easily 20 foot ceilings, a big brick wall, basically a classic loft style apartment. It's 550 a month plus electric, 1000 sqft (300 sqft more than Gavin's similarly priced place a few blocks away), I already have parking through work, so I wouldn't have to pay for that. It's just.. beautiful.
I think I'm not going to take it though. It's a hard decision, and I'm sure I'l second guess myself about it, but I'm saving so much money living at home. It's riddiculous, I'm saving money and paying down my student loans, and I have almost no cost of living. My dad travels almost constantly for work now, so I drive his car and just pay for gas. I'm basically doing what I planned on doing two years ago when I moved home, and if I keep it up I could have no loans and some money saved up for adventures (abroad, domestic, whatever)
I keep telling myself this, it seems like the right way to go. But the lure of living on my own is so powerful. I think I'm only able to resist it now because my parents have been out of town for the past 2 weeks and I've started to feel more comfortible at home. This weekend things will go back to elementery school and I'll be wishing I signed a lease.
A few months is realy a small sacrifice to make for financial freedom. But it would sure be fun to have a hip apartement, I can already see where all the furniture would go. Does anyone want to live on a couch in KC for cheap rent?
(another option, if I could find 2 brave souls, would be to live in the Vietnamese neighborhood a few more blocks from here. There's a three bed duplex for 650 with a month to month lease! It's a great neighborhood, but I don't think anyone I know in KC is interested in living someplace so urban.)
I think I'm not going to take it though. It's a hard decision, and I'm sure I'l second guess myself about it, but I'm saving so much money living at home. It's riddiculous, I'm saving money and paying down my student loans, and I have almost no cost of living. My dad travels almost constantly for work now, so I drive his car and just pay for gas. I'm basically doing what I planned on doing two years ago when I moved home, and if I keep it up I could have no loans and some money saved up for adventures (abroad, domestic, whatever)
I keep telling myself this, it seems like the right way to go. But the lure of living on my own is so powerful. I think I'm only able to resist it now because my parents have been out of town for the past 2 weeks and I've started to feel more comfortible at home. This weekend things will go back to elementery school and I'll be wishing I signed a lease.
A few months is realy a small sacrifice to make for financial freedom. But it would sure be fun to have a hip apartement, I can already see where all the furniture would go. Does anyone want to live on a couch in KC for cheap rent?
(another option, if I could find 2 brave souls, would be to live in the Vietnamese neighborhood a few more blocks from here. There's a three bed duplex for 650 with a month to month lease! It's a great neighborhood, but I don't think anyone I know in KC is interested in living someplace so urban.)