I need advice
I'm moving back to Portland! Hurrah!
My first rotation is internal. But the school has five clinics that we rotate through, and everyone's schedule is a little bit different. We just found out our specific schedules and I ended up working four day a week in Portland and only one day in Forest Grove. Now, I haven't wholey minded living out here in a small town. It's been nice to be close to school. But I sure am not attached enough to my basement apartment in this farmhouse to keep on living here and commuting an hour and back everyday to the city. And in my car that I still think is going to stop running at anytime again. (The check engine light comes on sometimes. The brake light warning comes on sometimes. Neither seem to actually mean anything though and if I turn off the car and restart, they will go off again.) Still, I just don't quite trust my car for that much commuting right now.
So even though it's a pain, I'm going to pack up and move just for three months. But I'll get to spend my last three months close to everything again. I can go to Farmer's Market again! And see movies at the theatre! And go to Trader Joes!
So I've been looking for apartments and have a couple appointments scheduled today. It costs twice as much to live in Portland, but oh well. I figure what I save on gas and stress, and make up in fun and time-saved will make it worth it.
The plan is that I can do a year lease. I will live there three months. Then 2nd term one of my classmates will move in. Then three months later another one. And a forth classmate will take it last term until the lease expires. We have an verbal understanding right now between four of us girls willing to share things like this. This is where I need advice. Should I be honest with the landlord/property mngt about how the situation will go? Would that make them less likely to rent to me/us? Or should I just act like it's just for me and then, oh! surprise, I'm going to have to sublet in 3 months. I think that would go over fine the first time. But then what do I say the next two times we need to switch rotations? And what are the laws about subleting. I imagine they need to know the name of the person in the apartment in case of worst-case scenarios like emergencies and next-of-kin and such. We can't just be switching people and hoping no one notices or cares, right? Because it would always be my name listed as the resident.
Am I being too trusting by putting my name on a lease? What if one of them backs out and I owe the money!? I think I'll try to get a six month lease so that way at worst, I'm only relying on the word of one of my classmates. The last two can resign a second 6 month lease if they need to.
Thing is, nobody rents for 3 month leases. And I don't know how my housing situations are going to work in the other locations either. I'm always going to just just need 3 months. I've seen a handful of month-to-month places, but they are seriously sketchy and you know it's because the people who rent at places like that are the transient unreliable drug/alcohol type. Not the type of building and neighbors I want at all.
Ack, stress. I need to leave in 45 minutes, so hopefully somebody with more renting experience than me will respond to this. I have two appointments scheduled today to view places. And hopefully a third message I left yesterday will be answered so I can see that one too while I'm in the city. Apartments go so fast, I pretty much have to decide immediately if I want it or not.
My first rotation is internal. But the school has five clinics that we rotate through, and everyone's schedule is a little bit different. We just found out our specific schedules and I ended up working four day a week in Portland and only one day in Forest Grove. Now, I haven't wholey minded living out here in a small town. It's been nice to be close to school. But I sure am not attached enough to my basement apartment in this farmhouse to keep on living here and commuting an hour and back everyday to the city. And in my car that I still think is going to stop running at anytime again. (The check engine light comes on sometimes. The brake light warning comes on sometimes. Neither seem to actually mean anything though and if I turn off the car and restart, they will go off again.) Still, I just don't quite trust my car for that much commuting right now.
So even though it's a pain, I'm going to pack up and move just for three months. But I'll get to spend my last three months close to everything again. I can go to Farmer's Market again! And see movies at the theatre! And go to Trader Joes!
So I've been looking for apartments and have a couple appointments scheduled today. It costs twice as much to live in Portland, but oh well. I figure what I save on gas and stress, and make up in fun and time-saved will make it worth it.
The plan is that I can do a year lease. I will live there three months. Then 2nd term one of my classmates will move in. Then three months later another one. And a forth classmate will take it last term until the lease expires. We have an verbal understanding right now between four of us girls willing to share things like this. This is where I need advice. Should I be honest with the landlord/property mngt about how the situation will go? Would that make them less likely to rent to me/us? Or should I just act like it's just for me and then, oh! surprise, I'm going to have to sublet in 3 months. I think that would go over fine the first time. But then what do I say the next two times we need to switch rotations? And what are the laws about subleting. I imagine they need to know the name of the person in the apartment in case of worst-case scenarios like emergencies and next-of-kin and such. We can't just be switching people and hoping no one notices or cares, right? Because it would always be my name listed as the resident.
Am I being too trusting by putting my name on a lease? What if one of them backs out and I owe the money!? I think I'll try to get a six month lease so that way at worst, I'm only relying on the word of one of my classmates. The last two can resign a second 6 month lease if they need to.
Thing is, nobody rents for 3 month leases. And I don't know how my housing situations are going to work in the other locations either. I'm always going to just just need 3 months. I've seen a handful of month-to-month places, but they are seriously sketchy and you know it's because the people who rent at places like that are the transient unreliable drug/alcohol type. Not the type of building and neighbors I want at all.
Ack, stress. I need to leave in 45 minutes, so hopefully somebody with more renting experience than me will respond to this. I have two appointments scheduled today to view places. And hopefully a third message I left yesterday will be answered so I can see that one too while I'm in the city. Apartments go so fast, I pretty much have to decide immediately if I want it or not.