Thanks to the hard work of Argenti Aertheri and the suggestions of various other Boobzers, the Man Boobz survey is now up and ready to be taken. It will give me — and all of you — a better picture of just what sort of people read Man Boobz on a regular basis. It’s completely anonymous. Go take it! It will only take a few minutes.
I will probably leave it up for a couple of days, and will report the results here as soon as the numbers are crunched.
I think pretty much any other question you might have about it will probably be answered on the survey itself, so hop to it!
Thanks Argenti!
Apparently the realtor has decided that the platform counts as a bedroom.
I’ve never forgotten the first time I picked up the real estate section of the San Francisco Chronicle and saw a cottage for sale for $1 million. They described it as “quaint”, which I believe is realtor-speak for “tiny and with ancient fittings”.
Search parameters: 2+ bedroom w/pictures. Top result — http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/apa/3892642441.html
Bit far from Pitt, but can’t argue with the price.
All right, Cassandra, you’d consider West Hollywood to be the height of economy. But where I am, a 1-bedroom is about $1000.
To be fair, Oakland, Berkeley, and so on are a bit more reasonable. It’s the city proper where the rents have gone from “high” to “you’re fucking joking”.
Oo, and our city is all spread out and expensive to get around too. 😛 Also, I came from the South Island, which is much cheaper… I came from somewhere where my friends were paying $70/week for a bedroom in a nice place in town and I was looking at $100/week for a place with 8 other people in a really scummy flat. :/
The South Island has since gone up a lot in price… though that was Christchurch, where the huge earthquakes were (still going on actually) so don’t know what it’s like now! Wellington is the capital and only Auckland (financial center of NZ) is more expensive… and not always.
Hahaha, I didn’t even notice that. O_o
Yuuup. My partner bought his house for $150K about 20 years ago. It’s now worth ~$500K. His parents bought their house for about $100K 30-40 years ago. Was worth ~$700K+ when they sold it but a nasty real estate agent pressured his mother into selling way too cheap to some arseholes that did it up a bit and probably sold for $8-900K. Her husband had been hospitalised and she couldn’t look after him and the big family house any more and the bastard took advantage of her stress. >:(
Nice garden! Having dogs, sections are a big deal for us. 😛 Some areas of the US you get such epic back yards, I’m jealous. Given our city is a collection of hills, it’s not really realistic for us though.
Well actually, just had a search, there are some cheaper places than last time I looked! These two are *near* our suburb: ours is a bit more expensive but they’re still pretty nice.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/property/residential-property-to-rent/auction-607103085.htm
http://www.trademe.co.nz/property/residential-property-to-rent/auction-606383569.htm
That’s a nice yard? Wow, you guys must really lack them! I was seeing that as a tiny thing, just big enough for a small party (South Oakland is a bit notorious for the drunken college parties!)
And now that the weather’s gotten cool enough to think, back to the surveys! Somebody else want to tell Orion that he’s an asshole?
Oh, and this is the cheapest place I got in our surrounding suburbs – also shows our cool view, not that our old house has windows in the right places to really appreciate that. 😛 Now 900 lurkers know where I live, oh well.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/property/residential-property-to-rent/auction-606163112.htm
Really hard to find rentals that accept *any* pets, btw. 🙁
I saw the term “pet rent” in some of those listings and wondered a. why a cat would need to pay rent and b. who’s going to volunteer to explain this to the cat.
Our city does. Drive-on access and a non-tiered, decent back yard is difficult to find unless you’re rich. When I was working full time and we were looking at buying another house maybe, there were so many *beautiful* houses in our price range, but no section whatsoever, just decks. Nice if you just had cats.
Go go Argenti! Oh and Orion: you’re an arsehole. Surprise? lol
lol Someone wearing leather? One of the new (vet) nurses has bought herself fancy leather gloves that go right up your arm. Might be a good choice.
All this talk of rent should make it overwhelmingly clear to people why I was homeless till this month and will be so again come September. My old room was $430 a month, living with two men and a cat, and it was hands-down the cheapest place in the Boston area I found that wasn’t in a crack den.
(The place was also quite nice–everything was old, but mostly worked, the land people lived next door and were very prompt about fixing everything… I have no idea how it was so cheap!)
I still sometimes fantasize, in a pie-in-the-sky way, of living alone. (You know, as ‘alone’ as a system can be.) But let’s face it, if I want to stay in my state of health insurance, ain’t no way it’s happening.
Oh no, why will you be homeless again? :/ I too thought of renting a place of my own when I first left home, but that was just ridiculous. Ha.
Minimum wage = about $495/week. You don’t want to be a low-income parent. :/ We do have much better social systems in place than the US, but we have all the same problems in being treated like shit, having to jump through hoops, and being often inadequate.
RE: hrovitnir
Oh no, why will you be homeless again?
Too batshit to work, have nowhere to go, and the emergency aid is $300 a month. (For understanding, my food stamps are $200 for a month of food, and I’ve never paid rent lower than $400 a month.)
Ah, the fun of being mentally ill and afraid of your family in the USA.
8( Do you have somewhere to go? I hate how many cool people I’ve met in horrible situations in the US – and I can’t do anything.
Nowhere to go. What do you do? :/
The concept of pet rent fills me with rage. One of the places we first looked at when we came to Austin had a 40 dollar per month PER PET rent. I told the lady they were unemployed and cut the tour short.
Fucking pet rent. Greedy motherfuckers.
Oh! I didn’t actually get that that was an actual thing. I’m pretty down with big deposits, but a higher actual rent seems like some massive bullshit.
Lots of people won’t allow pets even *with* a big deposit… higher rent is just extortion though: it doesn’t give them any safety net if it goes awry anyway.
If you charge a pet rent instead of a deposit, your tenants also have no incentive not to let the pet ruin the apartment.
As well they might because you’re being an asshole.
Argenti – “It’s too hot to think. Kitteh switch weather with me! 80~ here, so 27~ there.”
Nooooooooo you can keep your heat! I’m enjoying a cold winter for the first time in years. Been down to freezing the last few nights, first crackly frost underfoot in a long time!
This was on top of a pretty hefty per deposit. It’s pure greed.
Yuuuuuuup. I can understand the urge not to have pets because it can be a pain in the arse, but as someone who can’t imagine ever not having animals I get very grumpy about it. It’s not like young humans aren’t just as likely to destroy your house (my mother’s kitchen got burnt out by a teenager when she was renting it out).
^pet deposit. I R gud typer.
1461, and Jordan to the country list, and still no troll influx.
I was paying $625/mo for a 2BR 1BA with crappy pipes and a pretty big living room.
I’m currently paying $604/mo for a 3BR 1BA with a finished basement and a nice back yard. Not as nice as the house that got bought out from under us, but we had no chance with that and I suspect it had some problems we couldn’t afford to fix.