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My rent (which is the cheapest possible in town) is $6,000 (not including heating oil, which is ~$75/mo in the winter) a year for a very small room of a duplex
by phlyingpenguin 15y ago
My rent (which is the cheapest possible in town) is $6,000 (not including heating oil, which is ~$75/mo in the winter) a year for a very small room of a duplex in which each half is shared by 4 people. In a very different real estate market I've been in within the last two years (KY houses are on the order of 1/2 the cost of houses in NH), it's still about the same price for rent. You won't make it on the $1-2k that's left over from that. How long ago were you living on <$7k?
- erejacob 15y agoSince 2001 and up to now. Are you positively sure you have the cheapest rent in town? We lived in the same city for two years before we found a place that was 30% cheaper. Go to craigslist and set up an RSS feed. The underpriced places don't stay on the market for more than a day before someone snatches them up.
- phlyingpenguin 15y agoYeah, it doesn't get a hair more than $500/yr cheaper and would exclude bus access. (note the shitty living situation) Part of the reason is that NH has a high property tax instead of having income tax. That's passed on to the renters.
- erejacob 15y agoHave you checked out Seabrook (dunno what your feelings are towards salt marches and nuclear plants). I hear they almost pay people to live there. We were talking about moving to the Free State for a while but the property taxes are scary. Now it looks like we'll be buying a house in Oregon.