/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>84754
Bourgeois scum. You can save tons of money by moving yourself. Or are you of the manorexic/obeast variety who cannot imagine moving your several metric tons of animu and mango collection with your own two hands?

As you can see OP, having to haul your own shit counteracts the Magpie instinct to collect.

>>84779
Hope is not a strategy. If you have friends and relatives in your new town, make arrangements to couch surf or move in temporarily. Motels are actually expensive: The sign may say "$20 a night," and $20 looks like a low number, but multiply that by 30 and you have the cost of a 1 bedroom apartment. For 50% less ($400) you can rent a room or a studio.

And no, you don't need a job to get a lease. They'll just evict you when your money runs out. See: The crappy economy, ie the same reason you don't have a job. The rental company is just the operator, the manager, the go-between; they have to pay the actual owners of the properties. And if they're dumb enough to turn down someone with no job but with cash in-hand, that means their units are sitting empty.

Alternatively, and more in the DIY spirit, you could build your own damn house for $5000. In the outskirts of the city, not the downtown area, but you already posted that you have a car. It would also require living with Grandma for a few months while you talk to local officials to figure out easements, contact local construction companies who will give you free shit they were going to have to get hauled anyway, and of course build the thing.

But you may want to wait until spring for that. Construction requires enough warmth so your hands don't freeze, and the more light the better.