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the_ogre, I listed some off-the-top-of-my-head desires for our new place. I've refined the list, and I'm not friends-locking this one, because you never know who will read stuff and have some ideas of how to accomplish stuff.
I want to live in Berkeley, preferably within walking distance of the Ashby BART and Berkeley Bowl. However. I'm also looking for work (I'm a secretary-type creature) and if I get a job somewhere else (the current best possibility is on Market Street in SF), then I want to live walking distance from *there* if possible. So what we're doing is I'm looking for work (the Market Street place is supposed to call early this week, and I've put in tons of resumes and stuff) and if I don't have work by the time we go up on the 13th, I'll sign up with temp services in both the East Bay and Santa Rosa (wheresogwife lives), and look for apartments in both areas (Sebastopol is a possibility, but still, I have a feeling we'll end up in Berkeley unless I get work in the North Bay).
Our apartment requirements:
Our really-truly upper limit for rent is $1100, but cheaper is better (If I get some truly fly job between now and then, we might adjust that)
Our only non-negotiable requirement in a place is that it be in a neighborhood with lots of cool stuff in walking distance -- we walk a lot, and it's our main form of entertainment
Being within a short walk of the BART is a huge plus, and almost a requirement.
An accessible apartment would make a lot of other things secondary; I would greatly prefer it ifstonebender could come to my home. I will pout if he can't.
We prefer 2 bedrooms but do fine in 1 or even a very large studio; the bedroom has to fit a king-sized bed
We prefer washer/dryer hookups but do fine without them
Given a choice between a large bedroom and more living room space to have people over, we choose the latter
We don't really care if we have a dishwasher or microwave, but a garbage disposal is pretty important.
Cool neighbors would of course be wonderful, but unless one of y'all lives next door, we can hardly guarantee that, can we? :-)
the_ogre, I listed some off-the-top-of-my-head desires for our new place. I've refined the list, and I'm not friends-locking this one, because you never know who will read stuff and have some ideas of how to accomplish stuff.I want to live in Berkeley, preferably within walking distance of the Ashby BART and Berkeley Bowl. However. I'm also looking for work (I'm a secretary-type creature) and if I get a job somewhere else (the current best possibility is on Market Street in SF), then I want to live walking distance from *there* if possible. So what we're doing is I'm looking for work (the Market Street place is supposed to call early this week, and I've put in tons of resumes and stuff) and if I don't have work by the time we go up on the 13th, I'll sign up with temp services in both the East Bay and Santa Rosa (where
sogwife lives), and look for apartments in both areas (Sebastopol is a possibility, but still, I have a feeling we'll end up in Berkeley unless I get work in the North Bay). Our apartment requirements:
Our really-truly upper limit for rent is $1100, but cheaper is better (If I get some truly fly job between now and then, we might adjust that)
Our only non-negotiable requirement in a place is that it be in a neighborhood with lots of cool stuff in walking distance -- we walk a lot, and it's our main form of entertainment
Being within a short walk of the BART is a huge plus, and almost a requirement.
An accessible apartment would make a lot of other things secondary; I would greatly prefer it if
stonebender could come to my home. I will pout if he can't.We prefer 2 bedrooms but do fine in 1 or even a very large studio; the bedroom has to fit a king-sized bed
We prefer washer/dryer hookups but do fine without them
Given a choice between a large bedroom and more living room space to have people over, we choose the latter
We don't really care if we have a dishwasher or microwave, but a garbage disposal is pretty important.
Cool neighbors would of course be wonderful, but unless one of y'all lives next door, we can hardly guarantee that, can we? :-)