Renting - Feedback wanted please

[back2back]

I'd really like to hear people's experiences with moving out of home. In terms of rent, bills, work, lifestyle, finances, Uni? etc...
I realise this may not be the best place to ask but thought it'd be good to get some different insights. It's come to the point where I'll be moving out real soon and would like to hear how other people have gone about it.

Cheers

[Steady]

stay at home man, leech off your olds as long as you can.

[back2back]

I've been kicked out dude.
Dont ask :s

[Steady]

burn your parents house down, with them in it?
I dunno fck that, id be pissed if I got kicked out.

[Parfrey]

beg to move back in lol. or get a high paying job!
i moved out when i was 16 and i want to go back to my parents soonish... (i'm 20 now) it costs lots and its alot harder when you dont live with your olds.

[back2back]

At 16? Wow, thats a bit young...
I'm 20 and dont feel entirely ready lol

[wolf]

I left when i was young and i am paying for it now =( no money means unpaid bills means bad credit.

My advice is to try and stay home or try and share a house with people you can trust.

It ain't easy dude unless ya have a decent job but i suppose everyone has to make that step.

[Parfrey]

haha yeah was a bit young, thought it was a good idea at the time. not that i regret it or anything.

[naz0]

Some one has to ask it...... Why did you get kicked out? (if its not to personal)

[Steady]

Some one has to ask it...... Why did you get kicked out? (if its not to personal)

Cut his old mans grass? wink wink, you know what I'm saying.

[naz0]

Some one has to ask it...... Why did you get kicked out? (if its not to personal)

Cut his old mans grass? wink wink, you know what I'm saying.

Come on mate it sounds like a tough time right now for him. Give him a chance.

[Dezza]

As wolf said, try to move in with people you trust. I've lived in my current place for 2 and a half years now, and still get on well with my housemates. Generally, try to save a bit of money as the bills seem never-ending. Don't spend every cent you earn on the car, as you'll regret it when bills are due. I know it can be tempting, as I had to restrain myself a lot from going all out. I'm a uni student, and due to taking a year off to work, I'm now independent and also receive youth allowance. I saved up a fair bit of money last year. That's something for you to consider, if you struggle to make ends meet. The thing is, you have to do it one day. These days I enjoy living away from home, due to the added freedom, but it is still nice to go and visit the family.

[CaRtZ]

i moved out to study last yr at 18 (lived on the uni campus). wasnt too bad as bills were paid etc. this yr i am an apprentice earnig a wopping $6.80/h paying 130 a week bills paid. plus i have my own internet account, mobile phone which is all i use and the ever rising petrol. spend a bit of time and patience with Centrelink and u will be right.....

[stav50]

ive worked in real estate for nearly 3 months, done the course etc, not professing that i no everything bout it, but ill suggest a few things, try and save up as much as u can, as itll look a lot better on the application if u have some money behind u rather than a couple of hundred, get some friends, but dont expect to get the best house, be happy with a cheap poxy place, and keep the place u get neat, tidy and clean, as this will help towards getting u a good rental reference, which is what property managers really look for, also, show up to an open looking representable. hope ive helped

[Russ.]

If you're gonna be a student look at hostels & the like. I moved out when I was 17 (now 21) into a hostel, it was run by the church (no I'm not a churchie) so it was "non profit" which was good, and food, electricity, gas & internet was included in the $230ish per week. Other than that the only stuff I had to pay for was beer, mobile phone & petrol etc.
I copped a bit of shit form blokes at uni & footy because it was a church place & I had to share a room with another bloke (it was like having 50 students in a 25 bedroom house) but it was a good place to live, it made moving out not so bad, and the fact that it was church related actually kept a lot of dickheads away.

[Commando]

Simple.

1) Work out your income
2 Work out your expenditure
2a) Living on your own in a small unit
2b) Living with several other people in a sharehouse situation
3) Adjust your lifestyle so that you at least break even $ wise.

I know it sounds almost retardedly simple but so many people fail to do this. When I lived out of home 1st time around, while going to uni, and driving a V8, I had zero debts and managed to save a little $ each week. This is because I avoided pubs & clubs where drinks are bullshit prices, etc... If I wanted to drink & party I'd do it at my unit. Or a mate's place. With cheap stuff (beer, wine, or whatever spirits IN BOTTLE FORM were on special at the time).

You smoke? Roll your own.

You eat a lot of red meat? Buy budget packs (like 2kgs of beef) and portion it out for meals. Cook up fukloads of pasta & freeze servings. Prepare your own vegies instead of buying pre-packaged (although spuds vs fries is cheap enough to just go for fries). Buy cheap bread & freeze it. Hint: get a freezer.

That new PS3 game you want? Too bad. Play it at a mate's place.

Etc etc etc.

First time I moved out, I'd done my homework & everything would've worked, except I didn't consider the fact that my then-girlfriend was contemplating becoming chronically unemployable (she "coincidentally" quit her casual job when we moved in together, & then started skipping or intentionally stuffing up interviews), and decided to steadily increase her drug habit until she was spending more on threefors than I was on fuel. In hindsight I probably should've bitten the bullet & told her to buy quarters, it would've saved us money due to "bulk buying"... So one year later I moved back home with the folks & stayed with them til I'd finished uni.

If staying with your folks was an option, I'd say stay with them. Do you have any other family in the region? Try & stay with them and be a *very good boy*. Or, find some mates living in a share-house. Put up with their shit if they have habits that shit you, and don't try & shit them, like offering bad advice after repeatedly being told not to do so

[tezza bear]

find a rich old lwidow move in & ur set

[67rce]

good advice there Dave, back2back got a missus? Move in with her parents if ya can, thats what i did saves you so much money it isn't funny

[holmsy]

i moved out sometime earlier this year. mate had a room goin so thought why not.
iv since moved back home. only cause he pissed me off to much.
but if you find some people you actually like living with (loved livin with other mate there) then it is good.
i ate alot of pork, lamb, steak and frozen pizzas but that was cause i was to lazy to cook anythin else.

i still managed to go out multiple times a week. and buy a 2nd car (1st year apprentice wages)

as said tho. just work out how much money you have and how much you will allow for each thing.
i had a seperate account where i put money for bills. worked them out to be roughly $20 a week after split between us. so just put that away so when bills came i always had the money to pay them.

but in saying all this. i am glad i moved home beacause i got over goin out so much and now iv got way more free cash. and am eating better beacause dad cooks

[nothin suss]

Some good advice there from Commando...

I moved out a few times as a youngster but kept going home. Best idea is to get a missus with a place and live there 5 nights a week and go home monday-tuesday perhaps for some home cooked meals etc. if thats possible?

Soo many kids move out/get kicked out and think it will be easy splitting rent 2-3 ways. Good time are had for sure then bills come in, other people start hanging about, mates get gf's, people lose their jobs and break leases. All ends in tears.

I went home again eventually full time, sold my cool cars and had a deposit for a house. Never looked back.
Things get tight every now and then managing a morgage on one wage but its 'forced saving'.

Stay at home/family as long as you can, get a good job and save like crazy. Buy a unit/haose of your own within the next 2-3 years and you will be set.

[Dezza]

Another thing, make sure you clean up after yourself (as in dishes etc). If one of your housemates isn't pulling their weight, let them know. We had an incident where one of my housemates wasn't doing his dishes enough, and they were piling in the sink. It got to a point where his bitch of a girlfriend cleaned them all and blamed me. Funnily enough, I'm a bit of a clean freak. Only after going through them all, and showing that I hadn't used most of those dishes in my life, did she finally start to realise. We've sorted that issue out now.

[Frost]

If you move out move into a share house, make sure its with people you can trust. Im alot older iv moved out twice. Once into Ballarat so I didnt have to drive as much for work, we would share meals n what not even now and again, but I was always cleaning everything etc. I ended up getting my own fridge cause my coke would go missing heaps, and the powerbill kept going up and up. Only benifit of that house is when I got smashed always had somewhere to stay and the only chick in the house, although not the best looking chick never had a BF so it kept my wacking off to a minimum.


When I moved to wodonga i lived with grandparents for 5 months that was good, only thing is grandparents even know you 21 still like to make sure where u are etc. So I moved out in with some professional mature mates one had a GF one didnt, the one that didnt wasnt very clean and it wasnt enjoyable comming home and finding him passed out naked infront of the Fashion channel with his wang in his hand. And he seemed to always go through my room.


So as commando and others said. Find a house with people you can trust if not get your own, Budget quite well, also work weekends if you can extra money that way for the pocket and you wont spend as much if your not doing anything. And use public transport much cheaper than driving.

[back2back]

A lot of good pointers there. I've started looking around for share houses. I'm trying to keep things relatively local and with Camberwell being one of the more "exxy" suburbs, it probably wont be around here.
It should be ok. I have 2 jobs atm which are paying moderately. I should be able to have enough cash to pay bills and spend some money on me.
In which case, Uni will probably be online as my course isnt offered on an online basis

[Dansedgli]

Are you able to apologise to your parents and stay at home?

[back2back]

No they want me out. No big deal. I've been wanting to leave for a while now, this is just a chance to actually do it