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[apocalypsos]

I may need to find a new place to live soon.

Um, help?

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[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I live too far away to really help find you a new place....

You gonna be okay?

[jitterbugparfum.livejournal.com]

Aren't you lucky? I am the queen of finding places to live, and I'm in the DC area, too. Parameters, give me parameters!

Shoulda gone into real estate,
K

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't know. This kind of came out of left field.

I want to cry and I have to board a bus in ten minutes.

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

Do you have a city we could help you look in?

Are you looking for somewhere general? A new start?

Have you checked the online newspapers?

[cyprinella]

I know my place is way too far out in nowhere to help, but it's there.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Cheap, really cheap. Like painfully so. Near enough to the Metro system so that I can get to work. *hugs you*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really need to stay in DC. I can't afford to move, especially back to PA like I'd like to, considering I have no car and no money to buy one, even a cheap one.

I haven't gotten to do anything yet. I just found out a few minutes ago, so ... yeah. *is still a little stunned*

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

>.< that sucks! God I hate apartment hunting, it's so stressful.

I've heard lots of good things about Rent.com. Maybe something there could be helpful.

Good luck!

[jitterbugparfum.livejournal.com]

*hugs you back* I hope you're okay. I will keep an eye out for you--my friends are always looking for roommates (and I usually am, too, but we just filled the room.) I feel you on the painfully cheap thing. :(

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I think there's some reasonably-priced stuff in the Greenbelt area. Don't go for the place behind Greenbelt Plaza - it's close to Metro but unsafe. But there is a lot of stuff priced for students around the college, with busses to Greenbelt and College Park metro stations.

[cyprinella]

Pssst. If you know anyone that's looking for somethng in the Chantilly area, send them my way. We've got a room we're trying to fill too.

[cyprinella]

And Craigslist can be pretty useful, even if it's a bit of a slog.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

where are you?

[casapazzo.livejournal.com]

Hey - just sent you a few listings I knew of. Hope one of them works for you!

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

You could come live with me! I have an extra shoebox...

...that isn't helping, is it?

[jitterbugparfum.livejournal.com]

I will! :) Also, I am charmed by your journal, and have added you to my flist.

[rani23.livejournal.com]

The Washington City Paper is usually a good place to look for roommates.
*hugs*

I hope you're OK sweetie. How soon do you have to move?

I'm sorry.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Is there a neighborhood you want to stay in?

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

http://www.offcampusnetwork.com/washington_dc_apartments.asp

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

Do you mind staying with students?

http://www.studentads.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how you feel, as this happened to us recently. It's awful, but you will find a new place and you will be okay!

Look in local community and neighborhood papers for rent-by-owner apartments in the ads in the back. We found that apartments offered there were a lot cheaper than if we'd gone to a rental agency, plus: no fee, which in Boston is 10 percent of a year's rent. We're happier here than where we were, and you will be too! Good luck! You have a lot of friends, and they'll help you.

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

Maybe sharing a room?

http://www.roommateclick.com/?rid=404search#

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

I've actually had luck with roommate services online. Last year I ended up in a situation where I had to move fast and cheap and found my current roommates that I love. I used either Roommateclick.com or Roommateservice.com.

Good luck.

[cyprinella]

Danke!

Hee! I never thought of it as charming - more like ranty. :)

[theliel.livejournal.com]

*blink*
no lease? that sucks.

hope you land on your feet. your'e a bit far off to offer usfull help to though, so sorry

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Sudden moves happened twice with my family when I was a kid, we lived in part of a two-family house and the house got sold.

The nice thing about apartment hunting, though, is that you can get all excited about having a place to reararnge things and decorate and maybe *this* one will stay neat when you put things away (hahahaha). Moving's kind of a bonus do-over. For me, anyway.

Good luck.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh no!

Where are you looking? What's your budget like?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Alexandria, VA, right now.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

There's a lease, but yeah, everybody's moving, I guess. I don't think it's anytime soon, though, so at least I'll be able to save some money before then.

What I really wish I could do is move back to Scranton, but without a vehicle, I'm kind of screwed on that option.

[theliel.livejournal.com]

that totally sucks.
I've seen people in that situation before.

'rents/faimly/freinds of faimly with the c@$h may be able to work out a 'personal loan' to help finance a vehicle if you can't find decent financing...

we usually pay a pt over savings accounts in my faimly. ensures that both sides win.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Oh God, that's awful. I wish I could help you out on this one, but I know nothing about real estate. Did they just drop the bombshell on you?

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh!

The places I searched for apartments are all larger named sites like apartments.com and forrent.com, which are useful only to find out what the "listed" complexes and such are. I wish I could help more, and good luck to you!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this morning. I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen for at least a little while, thank God, but ... I'm still a wee bit stunned, I guess.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Gimme a weekend that's at least a month in advance, and I can come down with my car to help you move back to PA. This offer is good for whenever you need it.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

apartmentguide.com ?

Good luck.

[boozinjoebubala.livejournal.com]

you ever consider Alabama... I got... I got the satellite t.v.
and just because there's a fish hook in the bill of my gimme hat
doesn't mean I'm going fishing any time soon.

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

I'd offer to help, but I'm not even in the same time zone. Plus, this house is pretty much a slum... I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to live here. I sure as hell don't...

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I know someone who is looking for a roommate in Dupont Circle - lechatbleu (she was at the DC meetup)

Failing that - I have a (tiny) guest room and would gladly put you up temporarily.

[azurelunatic]

Alas! I am not local.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think this may be my sign to move back to PA. I've been talking it over with my mom today and it's looking like that's what I'm going to do. *sigh* I only need a car, an apartment, and a job. But other than that ... *shrug*

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Dude, did you really expect anything other than a chorus of "MY HOUSE IS GOOD! AND CLEAN! LIVE HERE!"s? *grins*