Saturday, December 15, 2012

Apartment Hunting

I'm going to diverge a bit from trying to figure out health care and talk about my life.  It's time for me to find my own place.  A real place where I'm going to live by myself for an extended period of time.  YIKES!  I've never lived by myself before but I'm actually really excited about the prospect.  Scared but excited.  

There are a lot of things for me to consider.  1) traveling for work 2) safety 3) price 4) location and 5) longevity.

What I know for certain is that I need a new place by August of 2013 and that I don't know where I'll be working full time until after December 2013. 4 months in a temporary location sounds really exhausting. I've done it before...but do I really want to do it again?

So after some thought, I decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to start looking for my dream apartment and of course I turned to the internet for help.

I came across this great article on lifehacker!

Five Best Apartment Search Tools  

I'm going to try out the search tools and see if I can find my next home!

The top rated on the blog is MyApartmentMap (don't mind the inaccurate bar chart in the article, just look at the numbers) so I'll start there.

*** Edit***
Just saw another great article on life hacker!

Hack Attack: Apartment Hunting 101

Set up RSS feed on craig's list!!  Great tip!!