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Originally Posted by Aviza
I really wonder about this, as I have a daughter who needs space if I get a place, and I really cannot afford to move out of my mother's house right now and I really want to. Though I do fear being too alone as I don't have a broad social network.
2 bedroom apartments or even 1 with den apartments are a minimum of $800/mo., plus utilities. That is 50% of my take home (just about) at my current job, and will all my debts is simply unaffordable. I can barely afford the $500 I pay a month to live with my mother, but she's more flexible than a landlord would be.
I just don't know how people afford to live out in the world, working a regular paying 9 to 5 job. This is why I'm so career focused, I just want to be able to afford to live a descent life.
I need advice, renting a room doesn't allow for me to ever see my daughter. So I need to figure out affordable housing somehow. Any advice?
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one time when I could not afford a place on my ow, instead of looking for what I needed (a one bedroom with room to spare for all my alternate personalities things too) I looked for places where people were looking for roommates. it was like living on my own but sharing the costs of food, rent, and other utilities.
house sharing by being roommates with people gave me the opportunity to save up money to afford a place on my own.
you might also check with places like domestic violence. they are always needing places for their women and children to move into. one time I rented a three bedroom house because it ran the same cost of an apartment. I rented out the two spare bedrooms to women from the domestic violence agency.