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Best Friends!
my best friend and I are going to get an apartment together. we don't have very good-paying jobs though.
we want to know about how much it would cost to get a really inexpensive apartment and pay all the bills (cable, internet, cell phone, water, electric, gas, car insurance, rent)? we each have our own car.
another thing. if my best friend gets a boyfriend and gets married, what would i do if i had to move out?
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If you want cable, internet, and a cell phone get a second job or a better paying job. You don’t need em. That will save you a couple hundred a month right there. Talk to you friend about who would get the apartment if someone gets married seems to me the one who gets married should move out and get a new apartment with their wife. Also it would be the one who got married responsibility to sublet their 1/2 of the apartment. If you both are on the lease it is both your responsibilities to pay the rent every month for the entire lease. It doesn’t sound to me like you are ready for a place together. You will not be as comfortable as you are living at your parents house. The thing is you are not suppose to be as well off as your parents at the start. that is the price of independence.
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Well, apartments (in an apartment building) can be very expensive depending on where you live.
The cheapest way to go is to rent rooms in a house. I'm a student (in Canada), and my friends and I are renting a house together. It works out to 375$ a month per person, utilities included. Take public transit instead of driving (inconvenient, I know, but far less expensive than owning and maintaining a car).
If you live in a university town, this is a good way to save money while living on your own.
As for the getting married thing, I guess you'd have to go looking on your own for somewhere to live, unless you get a two bedroom apartment to start with.
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