/diy/ - Do It Yourself

maybe you should try bing.com if google is too much for you

>>617692
Ask friends in the area if they know of any places. Check out listing online, Craig's List, etc. Make calls. Talk to apartment complexes, rental agencies, the works. Make sure you have plenty of money saved up for expenses. Minimum first months rent, lasts months rent and the deposit (which is often times is 1-2x a months rent). They may require all three of them from you at once before you move in. If you guys have any rental history that is good, see if your old landlords will write you a recommendation and be willing to vouch for you over the phone. Couldn't hurt. Have a deposit for things like power ready. Sometimes they ask for a deposit if you have not history in the area for paying utilities. Don't give anyone SHIT until you have a contract in hand and are ready to sign it. Some places like to charge an application fee. They want 5-20 bucks just to look over you shit, no guaranty that they will accept you. I generally avoid these places because they aren't very reputable.

If you can, its best to rent directly from a landlord. I lived in the rear unit of a place with an on-site landlord (not a manager, the real owner of the place) and it was awesome. Dude was pretty handy so anytime shit broke he was generally over there that day after work to square it away. He also kept in line the party fuckers in the 3rd unit that kept throwing wild parties till 3 in the morning. 3rd time it happened and he kicked their asses out. I've also rented from rental agencies and there is always a disconnect between what you say needs to get done and the people that eventually show up to do the work. Sucks when your toilet bowl is cracked and leaking and the guy that shows up three days later at 4:30 PM on a Friday wasn't authorized to replace anything that cost more than $50 and can't come back till Monday.

what exactly is your question son?

because you didn't really say anything other than you're moving out

>>617704

Just general life advice really.

>>617709

Don't lend money, especially to friends

Don't borrow money, especially from friends

If you move in somewhere with mice lay gel traps in open places. There's a small chance that the mouse will get hurt either way but generally they just get stuck down, you can pour a little vegetable oil onto the gel around the mouse and tease them loose to release them elsewhere. It's not their fault they don't know better than to live in your house.

Get a credit card and a debit card. Use the debit card for everyday stuff, the credit card for more significant purchases. I have a separate bank account for each, that way I can make sure I always have enough in the credit card account to pay it off and I don;t have to worry about spending too much on the debit and habing a shortfall at the end of the month. People always say "Don't get a credit card", but if you get one and never spend more than you can afford you'll have a history of making payments on time and that's worth more than diamonds in this credit society.

Never replace what you can repair.

Replace all the bulbs with LEDs ASAP. Initial costs are a pain but the savings you'll make are hella significant.

Before you look at places find out what mold looks like and where it lives and if you find it don't live there.

>>617714
Fuck that. Young people are too impulsive. No credit cards, period.

You do not need to build "credit". You need to stay out of debt. Debt will handcuff you for years. Just make do with less.

Stop saying streamline the process over and over again. Show the world how grow up you are by not using buzz phrases.

My advice to you in general would be to not do any of this stuff. Don't move so far away from your parents when you have no experience living on your own. Living with roomies is miserable unless you enjoy living in other people's filth, hearing other people's noise and being in smelling range of when they go to the bathroom. If you can't afford to live on your own, don't. Do better for yourself. Work and save up money until you can at least rent a room somewhere.

>>617741
What is that image from?

>>617753
See the little "G" near the file name " 009.jpg"? Click on it and it reverse image search on google for you:

http://fulovers.com/manga/ore-to-nanoha-to-one-room/

>>617714
>but the savings


What? LED's have terrible heatsinks and the capacitors tend to blow up inside of them . They are made with the cheapest parts as possible and you are risking a lot using them

>>617879
I can't spot the G

>>617692
If you move in with your friends without a job or the means to pay your portion of the rent, you won't remain friends for very long.

>>617899

They use less energy and in my experience are less inclined to explode than CFL.

>>617714
>There's a small chance that the mouse will get hurt either way but generally they just get stuck down, you can pour a little vegetable oil onto the gel around the mouse and tease them loose to release them elsewhere

Sensitive white kid/general.

>>617905
you need to enable google image lookup it's in the 4chan settings

or you know you can always just copy the url and paste into google to search for the image manually

>>618001

If you kill something when you can very easily do otherwise then you, my friend, are one fucked up little bunny.

>>618053
faggot