December 26th, 2010
Admin
It used to be that if you had poor credit, you only had a rough time applying for and getting approved for a loan to buy a home with. You could always easily get by if you rented instead. These days, what with the economic situation squeezing so many people out of a job, it’s getting so that you even need a reasonably good credit history to get approved for an apartment for rent. Is there something you can do to help your case if you find yourself in such a situation? Let’s see shall we?
In the TV show Friends, one of the characters, Ross, really wants an apartment and a plum spot in Manhattan; he believes that if only he could find something to get the landlord think of him as more special than the other applicants for the apartment, he could possibly come out on top. Finding some way of recommending your case over that of the other applicants really works if you can find something to work for you. Money does solve a number of problems. If you are able to put down a larger deposit then you are even asked for and if you’re able to pay for more months in advance, that could be a real positive. The very fact that you put in the work to make tempting offer holds you up as a serious candidate. Before you even hand in your application, you need to talk to the landlord or management committee to see what can be done. As a general rule, the higher up the scale you go with the luxury, the stricter the requirements. A letter of recommendation can be great too. If the complex with the apartment for rent seems to have requirements in a credit score that’s too high, a recommendation could work very well. It doesn’t matter that you have been late with your car payments or your credit card payments. If your word is as good as gold as far as your previous landlord is concerned, you should have no problem.
There is one simple rule to keep in mind if you are having a hard time applying for anything at all with bad credit – get a cosigner if you can. The moment you get a cosigner with a good credit to share responsibility for a credit card you are applying for or getting an apartment for rent, it’s like a magic boost to your own credit score. As long as you are sure that you’re not about to land that cosigner of yours in hot water, this could be a great way to go forward.
December 24th, 2010
Admin
There is something about a tiny 1 bedroom apartment that captures the essence of homeyness like no other kind of apartment can. When I moved into a little apartment I had rented that had just been created of spare space in a larger apartment in the middle of town, I thought at first that it was a step down – a sacrifice I had to make to be closer to my work. The bedroom was 8 feet long and wide, and the living room was not much bigger. The whole apartment was a grand 275 square feet. Still, the overwhelming cuteness of what was possible here sold me on it. The kitchen was pocket handkerchief-sized, big enough for a refrigerator and for two people to stand in, and the bathroom was the size of a shower cabinet (a shower cabinet large enough to fit two people, which to my mind, was an essential). I kind of fancy myself an amateur designer, and I felt I needed to finally show what I was capable of here.
The philosophy you need to go by decorating a 1 bedroom apartment is to let the beauty of the walls and floors bring in all the beauty. Everything else needs to be mercilessly cut down on. Everything needs to be perfectly organized around the house, because there is no worse a space stealer than clutter or poor organizing. Every room in the house when I moved in into the apartment was just a spare white box. I started by taking out the industrial looking windows and replacing them with beautiful antique ones. I put in window niches, antique doors and moldings around every door and window. The overall theme was to go for a prewar ambience.
The problem with leaving a spare white box as it is, is, that no matter how much stuff you go and take out, somehow, everything still looks quite cluttered. I know that most people will tell you that you need to pick light colors verging on white to make a small space appear larger: I find that it doesn’t really do that. Warmer colors, a mild purple, a beautiful maroon – these colors tend to actually, transport you to a state of mind where you feel that you are in a much better place than you actually are. Over one end of my bedroom, I used wallpaper with a beautiful Eastern design. It really expands the space I have. That’s the only indulgence in the whole place. In a small 1 bedroom apartment, you always had to move about in the same small space a lot. Having rugs and carpets means you’ll have to keep in mind all the time that you don’t want to trip, and it can be really bothersome. I painted the floors with real finesse to bring out the effect of the richly inlaid floor, and got the most comments for this.
And then there was the storage space – plenty of storage space in shelves hung on the walls kept all my stuff where it belonged. The effect was to bring a lot more space into my little apartment.
November 14th, 2010
Admin
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