best to wait til november when uni students finish.

I was looking, but got so demoralised by the experience I begged my landlord to extend the lease for another year. Yep, shitty shoeboxes for insanely inflated prices. Melbourne might as well be a suburb of Sydney.

I can outbid a uni student anyday.

Don't need no College degree
To get the best rental properteeee
I can afford much more rent
So go back to your fucking tent
Take your lecture notes with you
Buy a mansion when yer forty two

Why can't I seperate my sentences?! Oh well, it was a shitty poem anyway.

~nipplezahoy~ is looking for a place around november. not much out there at the moment though!

looking for rental proeperties sucks, i agree.

No it wasn't, it was pretty good Hatts.

fitzroy!

well when i moved last year, i did some research and found the perfect place. it was the only one i applied for and i got it. then recently, decided to move again. did some research, found the perfect place and applied for it. got it again! so , 2 out of 2. a perfect record.

not that this helps you at all, i just felt like gloating.

bye!

Just move outside the coolsie sphere and you will get a good house at a great price

Yeah, the inner city is grossly inflated price wise, because the land is so valuable, property owners aren't getting good enough returns from renting to people, so they occupy the houses themselves.

It's pretty ridiculous that students can't afford to live in the same suburb as their uni, though.

Agreed modi, but what can ana apathetic bunch of indi music obsessed coolsies expect. Make it cool then you are the fool

i live in the coolsie sphere but only pay $55 a week rent.

i win at life.

you live in a shit hole where no girl will fuck you, that or you live with your parents

my parents won't let me live at home because they hate me.

but yeah. if i were a girl i wouldn't fuck me at my house.

I'm doing okay at $87.50 a week for my patch of prime coolsie real estate.

the prices are high ... the cheapest bedsitter would be about $120-140 and this would be 4 to 5 stations from the city ... there was not enough high-rise/density development in the city, this has lead to a shortage ... i blame the in city councils for stopping the developers from building larger apartment blocks in the 80's 90's which would be aging and affordable now ... but instead they built a heap shitty little three story units and houses that people now fight over .. they are starting to build more highrise apartments in around southbank etc but i agree it is fucked when you cant find a decent one bedroom apartment for a decent price ... you feel like you are being ripped off ...

I'm only really interested in north/west. From Kensington to Preston West and everything in between.

I could afford a cardboard box in Fitzroy.

It's just completely fucked, hatts.

I'm just a lucky cunt, I guess, never stressed about finding a house, never applied for one I didn't get.

And lived in inner city for seven years or so.

But the high price should be supposedly reducing demand, and it just isn't.

We need a recession. I'd be rich in a recession. Or maybe I'd just lose my job.

I'm looking at a place around your way, Modi, but it's pricier than I'd like.

Just throwing it up for comparitive purposes horse.

you'd have to be puffin' muffins to compare canberra to syd/mel

> views of WHAT though tripto?

Haha...what do you reckon Ohyeah? Canberra. Now...say what you will (& I'm sure you all will) about Canberra...but it is quite pretty. We get Parliament House, Captian Cook fountain, the War Memorial, the GG's house & a couple of other "landmark" things in our views...the best thing though is the mountains & the sky.

> you'd have to be puffin' muffins to compare canberra to syd/mel

Yes, quite different of course. I do find it interesting that rent here is so expensive when we're just a big country town though.

supply and demand supply and demand is all it is tripto

Wouldn't Canberra's rent prices just be in repsonse to the stupid wages of public servents?

Public Servants? They earn jack shit.

Really.. most I know are in the 60k and above bracket which for me is unfathomable.

I guess they earn "decent" money....which is why the average wage per worker is a lot higher in Canberra.

You don't get the massive wages you see in big private companies though. There's lots of middle class in Canberra, not much extreme wealth or poverty.

It's all the pollies with their Scrooge McDuck style vaults

> It's all the pollies with their Scrooge McDuck style vaults

Haha...name ONE pollie that lives here. I think you'll find they're mostly in Sydney with this government.

passions and i are set to start looking soon and it is scary.

Hmm.

I think I'd better keep a look out for a Vault for rent...

Yeah - this is some fucked up shit. Was just looking at Realestate.com.au to see what the rental prices are like at the moment and they are buggered. There's nothing good and anything that is reasonable looking is bound to have a billion people waiting to apply and then you have to deal with the fucked up snobby rental real estate people that make you feel like shit because their inspection time is at 9am on Saturday morning and you're still wearing the clothes from the night before!

I reckon the way to go is bugger the estate agents and go for private landlords everytime. My friend just moved into a new 2 bed apart near where I live and it's HUGE, no shit, FUCKING HUGE and beautiful AND is only paying about $300 extra a month. That sounds like a lot but if you saw this place it's way worth it.

My sentence construction is fucked today.

Advice re: private landlords above OTM. A friend recently found a great place in Northcote privately. In addition, steer well clear of any dealings with RUN Property if you must deal with an agent.

agreed with the run call. my experience is that they are a pack of pedantic, useless cunts.

advice: if you're looking on the internet, some of the properties with no pictures listed are worth having a look at in person. we got ours through a small realestate agent that didn't bust our balls at all and were first in. when we went to look at the place, it had everything we wanted.

I look more for the language. I've learnt realestate-ese. If they say there's a kitchen/dining area (or "well appointed" kitchen), they really mean there's a bench and an electric stove from 1972 and 4 foot spare in front of it. If they say double bedrooms, they mean you can fit a double bed in there and if you're lucky, you can even shut the door. European laundry mean a sink in a cupboard and room for your washing machine. Neat and tidy means there isn't garbage strewn about the place and someone once vacuumed in there. If "freshly painted" is all they have to say about the place, don't even bother.

I looked at a place in Thonbury last weekend, LP - we were greeted by the previous owner's dead stuffed golden retriever and a bunch of freaky religious icons. We got the fuck out of there. Besides, it stank.

Best one I saw was "Just like a two bedroom flat...minus one bedroom".. thanks fucknuckles

we have a primo position and only pay $50 bucks each a week. It helps that we know the landlord though.

Best one I saw was "Just like a two bedroom flat...minus one bedroom".. thanks fucknuckles

hahhahhaha...

I'm looking at moving soon too and your rental stories are scaring me!