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Originally Posted by shermanator
I had about $5000 in the bank when I moved out. At 22 I discovered my grandparents set up a trust fund purely for room and board while enrolled. So I moved into a dump place in Cambrian Heights for my last year of university in 2006-07. Rent was paid for until I graduated 8 months later, but I had to foot the bill for everything else. It was a good setup and it was pretty easy to cover the bills split 4 ways working 20 hours a week. The $5000 stayed pretty steady until I bought a place, I just got used to living el-cheapo, and I think it's made me better in managing my money now that I have adult bills to pay.
It was great to have a place where the only amount you can lose is your share of the damage deposit. But man, the place was a dump. The ceiling in the kitchen was collapsing and the landlord trying to play it off as chipping paint. The dishwasher stopped working a week after we moved in. At one point in the winter the furnace broke down and the landlord took two weeks to fix it. By the time it got fixed it was 8 degrees in the house. We responded in kind by throwing big parties every 2 weeks. You wanna be a slumlord? We can trash your house then.
Good times, good times.
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Look at Mr monopoly over here with his dishwasher and furnace.