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It's expensive to be poor
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This account is 100% rage bait. Look up the account. It's all posts like this, same formatting, tone, similar themes.
It's all bullshit, he contradicts himself constantly.
There's also a community note that the account is based in Africa.
Edit to address replies:
First of all, first months rent and security deposit shouldn't factor in. You get your security deposit back from your current place if you haven't trashed it, and you're already paying rent, so the new apartments rent isn't an additional cost. In fact, if you're moving somewhere cheaper, you'll save money that first month.
Yes, you might have to pay those way before you move in, and there might be a delay getting the old deposit back, so you need more money up front to cover it. But if you don't have two months' rent in savings, credit, investments, etc? You are absolutely living beyond your means. I know I'll get shit on for this, but that's really not a lot to save.
Application fees include credit checks everywhere I've ever lived. Here they are capped at like $25 I think? It sucks but it's not the end of the world. Never had to pay a deposit on utilities and my credit is shit.
Okay, you're right, but also they aren't wrong (in this case).
Yeah, it's bullshit. A real American would have said "First month's rent. Last month's rent. Security deposit."
Everywhere I've lived, "last months rent" = security deposit. Never heard of anyone paying both.
If that's true, though, it still just means you don't have to save extra for a new lease if the last month at your old place is already paid for.
It doesn't mean that the scenario he described isn't authentic. I've experienced it myself several times in my life.
He may have framed his story as an actual thing that happened to him, but that isn't important. What's important is that he laid out the parameters for a discussion on the problems with switching rental properties, and a substantive discussion followed. The discussion is the point, not how the premise was presented.
There are lots of awful things that happen in America. Bringing them up for discussion is not automatically rage bait just because it makes you angry. Rage Bait is when you give it a misleading, anger-inducing headline, just to get someone to click on it, and then see advertising. That's Rage BAIT. What is this BAITING us into? A discussion about the economics of moving?
Doesn't change the fact that this is how it is.
That monster, we can't just let him post content and get away with it.
I had a neighbor in my old apartment complex who was looking to buy a house the same time I was. I was lucky enough to get approved for a mortgage at a good rate for a good amount, where as he was not approved for a loan which would have cost him $900 a month in loan payments. He didn't have a choice and continued to rent at $1300 a month. Just in case you didn't catch that, he pays $1300 a month in rent, but the bank wouldn't approve him for a loan for $900/month. How is that fair in any way?
Leaving aside the issue of credit rating and focusing just on the cost of home ownership, a house costs a lot more than just the mortgage payment. I bought my house for $142K and it had previously been renting for $1300 a month. My property taxes plus homeowner's insurance alone come to $400 a month, so if I had a $900 per month mortgage I'd be at $1300 a month minimum, before considering the cost of maintenance and repairs and upgrades and whatnot.
That's true. Home ownership has been the biggest money sink I've experienced
I just got a quote to re-point my chimney and replace the cap. Fucking $8K.
So you're saying people in Africa have a better idea of how fucked Americans are, more so than Americans do? I mean, that honestly checks out.