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I'm not trying to be negative here, but I've been scouring the internet, and also making calls trying to find out more information. I've been searching for an apartment, and literally the cheapest single bedroom apartment seems to be around $1200 (I don't remember exactly, but that's about it). And again, that's for your sort of standard, bare-minimum apartment. Most of them are at least $1500.
I guess this is more of a comment than a question, but there's no way someone with a minimum wage job who works 5 days/week (like me), can afford to live from that perspective. I even asked someone on the phone from HUD what people in my situation do and she basically said that they stay with their parents or they rent a room in someone's house. I had a prospective roommate and we eventually kind of decided together that even having a roommate wouldn't make the rent feasible. I thought maybe apartments.com was sort of exaggerating the prices, but no. Also another weird thing is that every other apartment complex seems to be owned by Heatherwood estates.
Nimbys hate renters. Especially when they make more money than they do and supposedly "don't pay no taxes." Nimby 'logic' on development and growth.
I'm not trying to be negative here, but I've been scouring the internet, and also making calls trying to find out more information. I've been searching for an apartment, and literally the cheapest single bedroom apartment seems to be around $1200 (I don't remember exactly, but that's about it). And again, that's for your sort of standard, bare-minimum apartment. Most of them are at least $1500.
I guess this is more of a comment than a question, but there's no way someone with a minimum wage job who works 5 days/week (like me), can afford to live from that perspective. I even asked someone on the phone from HUD what people in my situation do and she basically said that they stay with their parents or they rent a room in someone's house. I had a prospective roommate and we eventually kind of decided together that even having a roommate wouldn't make the rent feasible. I thought maybe apartments.com was sort of exaggerating the prices, but no. Also another weird thing is that every other apartment complex seems to be owned by Heatherwood estates.
I doubt anyone making minimum wage in the last 30 years could have afforded a 1-bedroom apartment on Long Island or lots of places.
First of all, you should be looking for studios, not 1-bedrooms. And what about taking a second job? People have done this forever. Not fun, but if you want to live alone...
I'm not trying to be negative here, but I've been scouring the internet, and also making calls trying to find out more information. I've been searching for an apartment, and literally the cheapest single bedroom apartment seems to be around $1200 (I don't remember exactly, but that's about it). And again, that's for your sort of standard, bare-minimum apartment. Most of them are at least $1500.
I guess this is more of a comment than a question, but there's no way someone with a minimum wage job who works 5 days/week (like me), can afford to live from that perspective. I even asked someone on the phone from HUD what people in my situation do and she basically said that they stay with their parents or they rent a room in someone's house. I had a prospective roommate and we eventually kind of decided together that even having a roommate wouldn't make the rent feasible. I thought maybe apartments.com was sort of exaggerating the prices, but no. Also another weird thing is that every other apartment complex seems to be owned by Heatherwood estates.
If we had a free marketplace in America, you wouldn't hear these stories, but one wing of the government, trying to "fix" these inequities, actually make things worse. Just look at California. Some people have good, full time jobs, and are homeless
I don't know how old the OP is, but usually people earning minimum wage for a full-time job are young and just starting out. Most people, myself included, start at the bottom and work themselves up to bigger and better jobs, homes, lifestyles. That means either living with parents while you climb and save, living with a roommate or two, or taking on a second job. Low-wage jobs and low-rent apartments are both meant to be a step towards a goal, not the goal itself. Be patient. Do what you need to do until you can afford to do what you want to do.
Illegal rentals or min $2k month rent for anything legal. So yeah, they live with someone's parents.
At this point ppl will think it's not even worth it to take jobs like that
Whats the point if you can't afford to be on your own, I'm not even mad if ppl just go straight to the welfare office now instead of taking a cashier job
20 years ago in NYC it was possible to be 18 and have a low-paying job and and a crappy apartment
Thats bad when you cant even afford to rent a crappy apartment
And I don't mean to describe it as crappy, I'm by no means putting on the Ritz myself - but there's simply no other way I can put it best
Our first apartment we rented before we bought - it was a shoebox, but dammit it was our shoebox. We lived there 6 months & 3 shootings occured in those months on my block - but it was still our shoebox.
This simply is wrong, whats going on.
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All please bear in mind that high Long Island rents are mainly a product of property owners passing on the high property taxes, insurance, maintenance costs (L.I. tradesmen, at least the good one's, ain't cheap). And of course acquisition cost (purchase price).
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