Adventures in Prospective Property Owning

[ink_n_imp]

So...I'm looking at buying an apartment in Queens.

This apartment's lease is up in May, and what with one roommate declaring her intentions to leave the country for a while, we've all started the apartment search dance. And beginning, I thought I'd look for a two bedroom affair so I could have a roommate. But...well, maybe I don't want a roommate. Maybe I just want something that I don't have to worry about NEEDING to find someone else to go doubles in. I mean, sure, what Watson wouldn't tolerate or get along spiffingly with the right Holmesian roommate (And I am VERY much one of nature's Watsons)?

But once again, the idea of having a place that I can afford on my lonesome, and not have to worry about renting out a room, or who I can have over when and for how long and how many times--

So, one-bedroom/studios it is then. But good God, how nerve-racking! Is it the right size, layout, enough sockets, is the kitchen serviceable (A REQUIREMENT), is there a balcony (...which is quickly becoming a HUGE desire, I mean, I COULD GROW THINGS THEN. Have a reading nook for nice weather. BARBEQUE! I COULD BARBEQUE AGAIN!), is the neighborhood nice, is it closer to the subway than I am now, CAN I EVEN AFFORD THIS FUCKERY etc etc etc etc...

D:

Also, there's a bit of a...lack of condos. Everything available is a co-op. ARGH! If I'm going to own something, it's going to be MINE, NOT a split in the shares of the entire building so then some board can tell me what's what. Nu-huh. NO THANKS.

ARGH I hope I find my Own True Apartment by April though. I'm going to be cultivating a nice ulcer until then.

Comments

[dangerprawn.livejournal.com]

:flies through the journal with her habits and her night-owl behavior and her undying obsession with scientific method and her messiness and her depression and her mania and her holier than thou attitude and her experiments:

I'LL BE YOUR HOLMES!!!

You'd be better off buying your own apartment. Congrads on moving up in the world.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

Oooooh good luck! Congrats ahead of time on OWNING WHERE YOU LIVE, it's going to be fantastic. Just keep that in mind. <33333

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Ulcers are a disease actually; a crazy pair of scientists in Australia taught us that. Just comforting thoughts, there.

I bet you'll find something. Also I didn't know one could buy apartments.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Omg so I found a Tamora Pierce book with you on it. Srsly. Will be scanning that later.

[wheres-walnut.livejournal.com]

guuuuuuuuuuuuurl if you need to move in the next few months I will keep you in mind.

I may need to move in the next few months, obvs.

[dangerprawn.livejournal.com]

I am a Holmes style horrible roommate. Honest to God.

I won't need to move until July and even then I don't know where I'll be going (Brooklyn or (sad face) North Jersey).

But, I will remembers you.

[wheres-walnut.livejournal.com]

JERSEY NOOOO D: D: D: D:

I haven't decided yet. I may be moving as late as July but I'm not sure yet.

Depends where in Brooklyn. As you know, I am not super Brooklyn savvy.

I don't even know what type of roommate I am. I lived with the same people all through college so................. IDK.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS NOT JERSEY! COME TO QUEENS BEFORE YOU EVER GO TO JERSEY! JERSEY IS SOCIAL SUICIDE!

Heh, I know I'm a slightly messy/lazy/accommodating one, who WILL clean up after the other person, so if you don't want your shit touched keep it the fuck out of the living room/kitchen.

And dishes always get washed after 2 days. ALWAYS. I will be grumbling a bit while I do it though.


Yea, I've got til beginning of May to find something. I'd LOVE to be able to afford a 2 bedroom, but it looks like it's a 1 bed/studio at best for me. However, EVERYONE CROSS YOUR FINGERS that it'll have a balcony. Even if it's a wee, wee one. If I'm going to buy it and live it in like, FOREVER, I think I really, really really really really need someplace to grow some plants. FOR REALZ.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

hehe, now just to find something that I'll fall in love with, can afford, and will be happy in! *FINGERS CROSSED!*

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I know. It's more the stress-related acid reflux I'd have to worry about. ^_^;;

Yes, one can! Tis what a condo is--an apartment you buy. And a condo is better than a co-op. In a co-op, you don't buy the apartment, you buy a SHARE of the building. And then you have to answer to the co-op board, and they have to deem you worthy to live in their building. I'm like FFFFFFUCK that! I want the deed, so I can do with it as I WISH.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

I LOVE TAMORA PIERCE!!!

...which book is it? I've read like, most of them.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

The Circle Opens No. 4: Shatterglass

Tris on the cover of the first Scholastic Trade Paperback printing looks like you. Trufax.

[wheres-walnut.livejournal.com]

I think you'd be happier in a 1 bedroom studio thing. It'll be a lot less stress and YOU CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT.

At this point? I'm like........ augh...... do I really want to clean up after roommates again? Not really. Do I really want to deal with their stuff EVERYWHERE AND THE JUICE ON THE FLOOR AND IDK EVERYTHING AUGH. It was LOVELY having someone to eat breakfast with and hang out with and go for adventures with but that was one roommate. Not freaking three. And we were practically married for four years anyway.

PLANTS. YOU NEED SPACE TO GROW PLANTS. AND BBQ. LIKE A BOSS.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

HA OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. It's the sort of thing you don't see until someone points it out. Does that me I get to play her if they EVER FINALLY make Tamora's AWESOME BOOKS into an AWESOME TV/MOVIE series? *grins hopefully*

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

Um. If you have trouble finding a studio or want to reconsider the roommate thing, I've been looking for one for the past year and a half, and I would have no problem with you having anyone over ever. EMAIL ME.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

1. Mini series produced by the BBC

2. Briar has to be cockney. It is required.

3. More boys, damn it. There are too many girls.