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May. 5th, 2008 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshine_queenI've almost posted a million times in the past couple of days, but I've just been so totally stressed out with moving and apartment hunting that I certainly didn't want to talk about all the horror cause I'm hoping I'll forget about it. Anyway, in apartment hunting, I was lured in by one complex in particular called Melrose. It's the farthest from campus but oh! It is so nice and pretty.
And then that night in Orlando, something made me check on the internet to see if there were apartment rating sites for Gainesville. And there was, of course. On two different sites, that complex got under 40/100 in stuff. Everything was negative and horrible sounding. Bugs and horrible management and lying contracts and drugs everywhere and oh man, I'm so glad I didn't sign. So now I'm thinking about this other place called the Landings, but there the bedrooms aren't furnished. I can rent bedroom furniture for $30 a month, but for that I might as well buy some damn furniture myself, and of course that's a horrifying thing. And, goddammit, it's all stupid 12 month leases and how the hell am I going to pay for summer, since I want to go abroad so I will just be hemorrhaging money and it's all horrible and stressful and FUCK YOU UF HOUSING LOTTERY.
Arg, anyway, in good news, I am home (even though the whole summer classes thing is giving me a horrible time) and I got to see almost all of my relatives and their offspring today and it was really nice and fun. And it's pretty nice being home.
And then that night in Orlando, something made me check on the internet to see if there were apartment rating sites for Gainesville. And there was, of course. On two different sites, that complex got under 40/100 in stuff. Everything was negative and horrible sounding. Bugs and horrible management and lying contracts and drugs everywhere and oh man, I'm so glad I didn't sign. So now I'm thinking about this other place called the Landings, but there the bedrooms aren't furnished. I can rent bedroom furniture for $30 a month, but for that I might as well buy some damn furniture myself, and of course that's a horrifying thing. And, goddammit, it's all stupid 12 month leases and how the hell am I going to pay for summer, since I want to go abroad so I will just be hemorrhaging money and it's all horrible and stressful and FUCK YOU UF HOUSING LOTTERY.
Arg, anyway, in good news, I am home (even though the whole summer classes thing is giving me a horrible time) and I got to see almost all of my relatives and their offspring today and it was really nice and fun. And it's pretty nice being home.
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Date: 2008-05-05 05:28 pm (UTC)One word of caution: in my experience, sites that rate apartments tend to have disproportionately negative feedback. People who feel like they got screwed over by the apartment company like to vent their spleen online, whereas the silent majority who probably found the place okay might not think to go online and say so. I'm not saying you should ignore other warning bells... but take those sites with a pinch of salt.
In a college town, there will always be someone around to sublease to over the summer.
If it's any consolation, I currently want to kill my roommate for being a completely unreasonable bitch about me subleasing my place.
Yay for you being home!