Let’s think about the amount of changes that could occur to a young person like yourself in 12 months.
- You could get a haircut (although I hear the woolly mammoth look is in).
- You could change careers/jobs/positions.
- You could have a baby/get married/die/find $5 (let’s clump all those drastic life events together).
- You could win the lottery or lose your job.
- You could go back to school (gaining an ever-mounting loan debt).
- The world could end.
…Alot can happen in 12 months, so signing a year-long lease with a realtor can be a big step in a young fabulous and broke (thanks Suze Orman, for that title…) adult’s life.
Since I just signed my very own 12 month lease with my oh-so-adult hand today, I can’t really give you any advice of what to do when apartment searching (I never promised I knew anything about anything). But I can give you a few reassuring suggesting because I’m full of those:
- Above all, make sure you feel comfortable with the place you are renting. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t commit to it.
- Check for trails of rats or rat droppings leading toward your apartment door. Especially hairless rats. Nothing’s worse than a hairless rat in your bed. Except for a snake in your toilet.
- It’s important that you know you can pay your rent. Apartment realtors tend to frown on not having money.
Although you might not know what you’re going to be doing in 12 months, at least with a 12-month lease, you’ll know you’ll be doing whatever it is you’re doing in that apartment. With non-hairless rats. Otherwise called hairy rats.
-The Boxcar Children
