(August 25, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Yeah, you're right, Morgan - they're cheap assholes, and adding on W/S/G lets em advertise a slightly lower price. Bastards.
When I was house hunting my biggest peeve was HOA prices. I was pretty much confined to condos rather than single family homes so there would ALWAYS be an HOA fee and the kinds of prices they put out there were appalling.
$400 for one HOA that didn't include w/s/g/e or anything, and there wasn't a pool, gym, a club house or other shared amenities. WTF did they need $400/mo for?!? It does not cost $20k a month to light the entrance sign, water the lawns and pay for someone to come mow.
Quote:So I'm going to suck it up and give up the short commute in favor of a nicer/larger place (unless I get lucky). Maybe get a place for six months or a year and see what I can find then. It occurred to me that what's *really* important is to have my own place and my privacy back.
I'd still recommend trying to find somewhere relatively close to a MAX line since you seem to enjoy going into the city a lot. If you're going to suck it up and deal with a commute, you may as well try and make it as painless as possible to deal with.
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