Before I went on vacation, I received a letter from my apartment office informing me of how much my rent would be raised when I renewed my lease. The damage? $72. Of course, my rent hasn't been raised in two years, which was nice. At the same time, the increase was something of a sticker shock.<\/p>\n
My first reaction was to jump onto Craigslist and find new digs. I was brought back down to earth when I discovered my rent raise was actually reasonable.<\/p>\n
Well, if I'm going to be paying more, why not go for broke? And that's exactly what I'm going to be for the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
I went to the leasing office today to see how much it would cost to move into a larger one-bedroom apartment. The two which would be available when my lease expires easily broke the $700 threshold. Then the leasing manager looked up two-bedroom apartments. She found one going for less than $700. In essence, my rent raise would be $93. But I would increase my square footage by 273 feet.<\/p>\n
So yes, I'm going to be broke, but now I'm going to have an entire room<\/em> dedicated to my studio. For the next 12 months, I won't have to play spatial relations games just to squeeze one more piece of furniture (or equipment) into my 10×10 bedroom.<\/p>\n Of course, that means I have to pack. The weather is now getting hotter, and I am moving. Somethings are timed quite nicely. Other things are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I went on vacation, I received a letter from my apartment office informing me of how much my rent would be raised when I renewed my lease. The damage? $72. Of course, my rent hasn't been raised in two years, which was nice. At the same time, the increase was something of a sticker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}