<p>I'm searching for next year and trying to figure out what is reasonable. I think I am going to be spending 400-500(half of 2 bedroom) ?</p>
<p>they are decent looking apartments close to campus...some include parking and some charge like 30 or 45 a month...</p>
<p>Is this too much or reasonable?..I am lacking in perspective here..</p>
<p>What is everyone else paying? (Please give rough price including utilities and relative proximity to campus) :)</p>
<p>$530 for shared room
right across the street from campus (this is what hurts)
Utilities run ~$30-40 or so extra for a person
Basically 2br/2ba shared amongst four people.</p>
<p>It honestly doesn't matter though, it's more what people around you are paying near your school due to differences in standard of livnig and whatnot.</p>
<p>Where I go to school, the norm is a ~$550 for a room in a 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom, all utilities/parking/etc. included. Those are about a 20 minute bus ride from campus. There are a couple of options nearby, within walking distance, but the rent is about $600 a month there.</p>
<p>I pay $4000 (9 months) for the master bedroom in a three-bedroom apartment with street (not assigned) parking a couple of blocks from campus. Place is in **** poor shape.</p>
<p>Rent is going to vary drastically based on location. </p>
<p>Two years ago, my 4 roommates and I were paying $4000 per month for a 3br/convertible to 4 plus utilities which amounted to approximately $100 per month. This is in NYC with a 10-15 minute walk. 1 bath with no parking, 3rd floor walkup.</p>
<p>$3,500 per month. But I live in a one bedroom in Manhattan.
No parking (as if there's anywhere to park), only utility included is gas.
There's a doorman, on-site laundry, elevator, 11th floor, and my neighbors have sex very loudly which sounds like Scooby-Doo raping a cow.
Had to throw that in there.</p>
<p>It's about eight blocks from my campus. Not near any subway locations either, have to walk to Times Square to catch the train.
But I'm planning on moving to a single-family town house in a few weeks due to all the problems I've had with my lovely neighbors. the rent for that one is $9,000 though (got a HUGE bargain) and it's much further from the campus.</p>
<p>Next year -- $2800 for a semester, in a private student-only complex. It's similar to a one-person dorm: 9x12 room with shared bathroom, guys and girls on separate floors. All utils included. It's also in a more trendy part of town than where I go to school.</p>
<p>€258(around $350) a month, for a 18m² bedroom, shared kitchen/bathroom. Price includes internet television electricity gass water service etc. I live about 1km, 0.6mile from the centre of the town (it's rather small though, about 150,000 inhabitants) and 6km from the campus.</p>
<p>Marije -- is the single room/shared bathroom and kitchen thing common for where you live? In Philadelphia I had to search far and wide for that setup (I hate roommates) and, coincidentally, it's only offered at a place that mainly houses international students.</p>
<p>I getting a house for ~475 a month including utilities, a couple (~4) blocks away from campus</p>
<p>damnnnnnn plattsburghloser you are getting raped rent-wise. </p>
<p>i'm still in a dorm and am also paying way too much ($12,260/yr, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen, four girls including myself). utilities and such included because, well, it's a dorm. no parking because it's new york. about a 45 minute walk or ten minute train ride from my campus. i have most of the major train lines right outside my door. </p>
<p>this summer i'm moving to washington heights, which is a 30-40 minute train ride from campus depending on how lucky i am. rent will be ~$650-$700 for a one-bedroom (shared, so total rent will be $1300-$1400, hopefully more like $1300). utilities will probably not be included.</p>
<p>I live in an apartment about two blocks from my campus. My rent is $335/month, plus internet and power (internet is about $45/mo, power varies from $35-50/mo). Water is incl., parking free. I don't have cable. But I live in Alabama where everything is really cheap. Last year I paid $263/mo for a 2bd/2ba plus gas, water, power, and internet (split with a roommate so not that much; cable was incl. with the rent) for an apartment that was about a 20 min walk from campus, and on the bus route. Some of my friends only pay $180/mo in rent for a 3bd/1ba apt the same distance away (I know they pay for cable, internet, and power; not sure if water is incl.).</p>
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<p>i'm living at a (super nice) complex like that next year. it'll be convenient to have an all-inclusive bill, but there are definitely cheaper places nearby that aren't as swanky haha. my boyfriend is pretty much gonna live in a s***hole next year, but the rent will only be like $325/month.</p>
<p>The Northampton/Amherst area can be pretty high-rent, so mine is $900/month plus heat and electricity; parking, cable, wireless, and water are included. My apartment is nicer and larger than the average student's, though; I have friends who pay $650-$750 a little farther out from the main Five Colleges area.</p>
<p>Edit: I also have to pay for my phone bill. My monthly expenses, not including food, average around $1,000.</p>
<p>I pay $625 a month in rent (2 bedroom, 2 bath), around $150 in utilities which is water & electric, sewage; $45 internet, $47 for tv, and $80 for the cell phone bill. I live with my fiance and his friend (thankfully, only for a few more months...he's so immature) about a 5 minute drive away from campus with plentiful parking. (This is in SC, outside of Charlotte, NC)</p>