Moving out- saving ideas? and help=)

[layla4dan]

Hi all!

so i've really felt recently that i wanna move out, after all i am 21 this year

but i don;t know where to start, or how long it takes for a place to become available.

Do i just put my name down, it's free?

I'm not sure, so any information would help. My local is crap, they just fobbed me off

thanks guys.

really, its so i can carry on my little mermaid collection, i'm not allowed anymore, there's no room ;D

[Angelic Amy]

I would look in the classifides in your local newspaper to start off with and if noting catches your eye then maybe try asking the local real estate agents? Generally if there are tenants in a place it'll take around a month for them to move out but it does vary from contract to contract and the law.

[pyro]

To save money:
a room/flat mate help a lot, but get someone you know really well if not there will be trouble (I lived with a roommate from hell for a year not a good thing).
Ikea for furniture, they may not last forever but they will last till you need to move again.
Learn how to cook!!! buy meats in family packet and store them in one person packer so you don't have to defrost all of them every time.
Finding a place:
Like Amy said just look in the classifies ads, check up on the ad before you look at the place, some time it might be a scam (my friend found a great ad online but when she call the complex it turn out to be a credit scam). In SoCal the tenant will let the mangier/owner know about three months before moving and they will place the ad a month before the tenant leaves.
When you found the right apartment ask the owner to clean the carpet and check the gas and electric lines before signing anything.
Safety first!!
Check out your soon to be neighborhood, ask around to see if there any problems(petty thief, major and minor crimes), take a drive around to see it for yourself.

[layla4dan]

Thanks.
i think i can get into student accommodation, its onyl £80 a week, so it's not that bad, but i need to apply pretty soon.
i think its free to book, so gives me time to get a job over the summer...

[layla4dan]

ok, i missed the student accommodation deadline, guess i'll start lookin round, my sisetr wants to move out too, but she's too young, she's 16, and mum won't sign for her. I have to beat her at something...

[pyro]

Aww, I'm sorry.
May I as what the student accommodation?? Is that for dorming on campus or off campus apartment?

[layla4dan]

i think its on campus, but i'm not too sure.

[allego]

Well, with student accomodaion, I don't know if it's like in France, but here, after the deadline, at the beggining of the year, there is always people who decide that university is not for them and there is a lot of free room. And the people who manage the student accomodations doesn't run after people who asked too late or didn't have a studio flat.
So maybe you should go in october, if you don't find anything else untill then, to see if there is room for you.

Anyway, if you live in a big city, or a place near a campus, during the summer, there will certainly be "parties" made to makes people who are looking for a coloc meet.

Or you can look on the website of a campus, they usually suggest places for the students who won't live on the campus but around. Or on students associations websites... Even if you're not a student, there is informations there that can help you to find something.

For furniture, I suggest you to check the garbage, it's stupid, but people throw tables, chairs, frame for you're bed. Personnally, I found the frame I use near the garbage, totally new, and I have a big beautiful wooden chest that I found at the same place.
There is also ecolo organisations that takes furnitures people doesn't want anymore and sell them for nothing.

Gosh, I love to live all alone ^^ I can't wait to go back there, my mom is driving me crazy