Probably not. Something I'm going to really miss from Ireland are these chips that are bigger than my fingers. Giant chips. Oh, yeah. I need to try at least one of those navigate to this website.
Soup. Sopa. Mmmmm. That's nice and savory with lots of spices. And a little drizzle of olive oil on top. It's top notch. Alright, so we've finished lunch. We've made it back in the car. That means our road trip continues. We're on the way to Giant's Causeway. Yeah, I keep calling it the wrong thing. What did I call it before? Like Causeway of Giants. Giant's Causeway that's where we are off to and hopefully on the way back to Belfast we'll have time to hit up a whisky distillery. So it's going to be a pretty epic day. So we have just arrived at Giant's Causeway, one of the wonders of Northern Ireland, and we're just going to be following the trail all around until we reach these massive pillars that look out of this world. Let's go. Giant's Causeway is a region of roughly 40,000 interlocking basalt columns as a result of an Ancient volcanic eruption. Located along the Northeast coast of Northern Ireland this National Nature Reserve has been named the 4th greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom and is easily one of the most popular attractions int he country. Legend has it the columns are the remains of a Causeway built by an Irish Giant challenged to a scrap by a Scottish Giant. How are you enjoying it so far? It's been fantastic. We're going the extra distance to get a really nice vantage point. And you know what it's never crowded along the extra mile. Lead us that extra mile. Across the sea you'll find identical basalt columns at Fingal's Cave on the Scottish Isle of Staffa. Many of the structures having been subject to several million years of weathering resemble objects such as Camel's Hump, Giant's Boot Structures, Shepherd's' Steps and the Organ to name just a few. And this is where the path officially ends. Unfortunately, they've had to put up a barrier because of erosion. And if you look off in the distance there is a massive rock slide and you wouldn't want to be walking there. Probably not. The big day has arrived. It's Kerry versus Dublin. I've got my ticket. Now it is time to check out the game.
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I'm probably less than five hundred meters away from the castle. I can't see it right now but here is the dilemma. How do I get there? That appears about as far as I can go unless of course I can magically find a pair of rain-boots or a canoe. My second effort is about to be rewarded. I'm not making it all of the way to the castle but it appears that I'll be able to get a view from it from across this lake slash pond. Where there is a will there is a way. It appears this third time may be the charm. And I have a feeling that I'm getting close to the castle because I've just got into town. I've taken the third path over.
And if I'm right I'll actually be able to visit it. Open to the public Ross Castle built in the 15th Century is situated on the edge of Killarney's lower lake. Visiting its grounds is the perfect ending to a walk in Killarney National Park. In terms of nearby attractions it was definitely my favorite. I often find when traveling you have these unexpected days. You have these days where you lose your sweater and you try to reach somewhere and it doesn't work the first time or the second time and maybe not even the third time. Luckily it did for me the third time. But anyway this is the kind of adventure that really make traveling interesting for me. I like that days are varied and that you never know what is going to happen. So I'm going to finish off this adventure with a river-walk back to the hotel. Well good morning from Northern Ireland and today is a road-trip day. We're actually leaving Belfast behind and we're going to be driving the Causeway Coastal route and exploring the coast visiting some of the major attractions along there. One of them is Giant's Causeway and from there we'll see what else we find. I know there is a distillery, maybe visit some parks. Yeah, sounds awesome. And we've been waiting to do this for a really long time. For us, this is what the real road trip in Ireland looks like. So let's hit the road. Yeah! So the weather has been quite unpredictable. We had blue skies when we left Belfast less than an hour ago and up ahead we are seeing some grey storm clouds. So we'll see what happens when we actually reach the coast. Hopefully we won't be needing umbrellas or rain ponchos. This is Ireland, you've got to dress for all occasions. Oh, yeah. So it's almost lunchtime and we've been taking a lot of detours. We still haven't reached Giant's Causeway but we've reached a little town called Ballycastle. So we're going to stop here and have some lunch. Cozy by the fireplace are we. Yeah, just warming up by the fire with a pint of Guinness. I couldn't be anymore relaxed. So our food has arrived. I have a tomato basil soup. And Sam. I have a feeling someone is going to have food envy. I think I am. Look at. That giant fish and chips. Are you going to share? No. What? You're not going to share with wifey? One of the best bargains you can get is a day pass for the bus. It's really cheap and it allows you to travel anywhere in the city unlimited usage. Secondly, this is a very friendly city. Almost anytime we brought out a map we had a local coming up to offer help. And we just found that whenever we took taxi rides or were in restaurants locals really went the extra distance to make us feel welcome here. And lastly this is a very walk-able city. Most of the attractions are clustered in the downtown area and you can reach most of them by foot. And that's it for our quick trip to Belfast! As you can probably see, our visit was fairly short so we didn't get to do it all. If you have any suggestions of other sights and attractions worth checking out around Belfast, feel free to share those in the comments below.
Good morning everyone. It's bright and early here in Dublin and I'm about to board a train bound for Killarney - a city I've never visited before. Audrey is off on a friends and family road trip so unfortunately you'll have to be putting up with me the whole time. Anyways, let's get going. It's nice, only one transfer today. The journey has been really pleasant so far. It's been really scenic and I should be in Killarney in about an hour. After arriving at Cill Arine station minus my sweater, I dropped off my bags at the hotel and set off on foot to explore the downtown core. I quickly found myself impressed by how passionate the city is about its Gaelic Football with Green and Gold displayed everywhere. With no shortage of restaurants and pubs at my disposal it wasn't long before I sat down for lunch. For lunch I'm going with Fish and Chips and a pint of Guinness. It never gets old. Well, that really hit the spot. Now it is time to go out and check out the town. Well, well, it didn't take me long to escape the bustle of the downtown city core. And so far my first impressions of this place have been really positive. It's a nice change of pace from Dublin where you know it is a really big city and it is really hectic. So over here it is much much smaller and literally it took me 2 minutes to walk out into the woods here and now I'm down a path. Just what I want. It appears I've made it to the entrance of Killarney National Park. But before I go there, there is a cathedral right in front of me that looks absolutely amazing, so I'm going to go check that out first. And then onward to the park. An interesting fact is that Saint Mary's Cathedral served as a shelter and hospital for the sick and dying during the great famine before it was even fully completed in 1855. It appears I have options galore in terms of where to go. Well, Ross Castle it is. And after that gigantic lunch I've got a lot of calories to burn off. Something you really appreciate in Ireland is when you have a gorgeous day like this. When it is sunny outside, when there is hardly a cloud in the sky. Because it does rain a lot here and so any excuse to put away your umbrella and get outside and go for a walk is definitely worth taking advantage of. You know how sometimes in life you hit a fork in the road. Well, apparently sometimes you also hit a flood in the road. So this road is flooded here. Dear Nintendo, hi, it's me, Austin And I'm here once again to take your cute, beloved franchise adored by millions, And twist it until it's barely Recognizable for both my own amusement and for the amusement of other cynical jerks out there like me Recently, MatPat deduced that being a Pokemon trainer Was the worst career move you could possibly make, and you know what? He's totally right. The boring old workaday trainer job is not only grueling It's just not freakin worth it Amazingly though, in my own journey into the Pokemon universe I discovered something that Mat missed.
Something that honestly I think we all missed. I didn't see a single comment in that video about this. There is a secret loophole, that if you're willing to forego the normal path of wearing holes in the bottom of your shoes walking miles Down routes 1 through 17 in your quest to become the literal best Pokemon trainer in the universe, only to be rewarded with enough Change to buy yourself a victory dinner and a cheap hotel room for the night *Deep Breaths* You can become the richest person in the entire world in practically no time at all, and destroy entire Nations in the process, and in order to do that, you're gonna have to do one Simple thing. get yourself a Pokemon that knows the move payday Mat gets a pass from missing this move because, well for one thing it kind of misses the spirit of the Pokemon games and the anime, which is to go on an adventure and enslave sentient creatures and force them to fight each other to the death for your amusement and profit, but I actually discovered this completely by accident. You see my original goal, the original video I was going to do was to figure out of all 728 Pokemon moves, which was the most dangerous and damaging of them. And I got all the way down the list to move to the six. Move six entropay New Zealand! Six entries in, and I'm already distracted! I'm trying to figure things out, give the people the blood, gore and horror that they want out of the game meant for children, and here I am distracted by the jingling car keys of "Boy! I just gotta know how much money you can make from payday!" For the purposes of this video We're gonna use the figure MatPat uses Where a hundred pokedollars is thirty nine cents in US currency Which I did double check and seems to be on the level. Anyway, on with the show. How much money can you make using the move payday? For those of you who don't know, payday is a move learned almost exclusively by the Pokemon Meowth or their evolutionary forms. It's a physical normal type move where your Pokemon attacks your opponents by literally throwing money at them. As a nice bonus at the end of the battle, you get to pick up all the money from the ground and keep it! Providing you wipe the blood and fur of the murder victim off of it first. The way the amount is calculated is pretty simple It's the level of your Pokemon times five per use. If you use it, three times the level five Meowth That's 75 smackers use it once with the level 100 Meowth the boom five hundo right in the pocket all for the low low price of a little bit of Pokemon PTSD So basically on that little bit of information right there you can see that the goal to making a buck would be to simply have the highest level Pokemon use payday the most in a short amount of time right and for the sake of simplicity and to save room for later because I have a lot of info to Get through today. Let's run through it like this You take a level 100 Meowth through a high level like Poni Gauntlet and start running in circles Let's say that you have the ability Illuminate active, which doubles your encounter rate and let's say you were even smarter and equipped an amulet coin to double the money you earn At the end of the battle, taking into account that each step takes exactly a fifth of a second That means it'll be approximately one point zero seven seven (1.077) seconds on average until you encounter a wild Pokemon Which will be around level 15-55 Boom! You two-shot it using payday the Pokemon dies without getting a chance to write home to his family. Since you're level 100 you use Payday twice, that's two thousand big ones right there or $7.80, and then you rinse and repeat this over and over and over again. Given that the average battle would last approximately forty two point eight three seconds plus the average of one point zero seven seven seconds in between battles, this means that you're earning a cool forty five point five four (45.54) Pokedollars or eighteen cents per second That is a whopping ten dollars and sixty six cents per minutes or six hundred and thirty nine Dollars and forty nine cents per hour. That is over twenty eight times the average hourly wage in the United States according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics That means if you work 8 hours a day Nine-to-five murder-genociding helpless Pokemon five days a week for a whole year., you'll make a salary of--get this--over 1.3 million dollars a year. Boom! Suck on that, Elite Four! Instead of being the very best that no one ever was I'm just gonna sit around in luxurious capitalist fashion and reap the fruits of my cute little cat's labor every day before going home to my glorious McMansion. Like between being a nomad with aching feet and being a millionaire entrepreneur I know which I would pick, but it doesn't stop there--oh, no--because A business is not a business if it cannot be scaled up. So how do we scale this up? well for that we're gonna have to turn to youtuber verily--verily...Verlisify? Verlisify. Verlisifaius the third...? I don't know how to say it. anyway, he figured out a way to twist and exploit the world of Pokemon for his own personal gain in a Truly magnificent fashion using a combination of the Pokemon Smeargle, who can learn a move called sketch which allows him to copy any move he wants in the SOS mechanic from ultra Sun and ultra moon allows you to build a pokemon with the moveset Roost, Payday, Happy Hour, and False Swipe. Happy hour doubles the amount of reward money that you receive from a battle which combined with the amulet coin Leads to a four times money payout, NOW WE'RE COOKIN' WITH GAS! Whereas these combined skills allow you to maximize your payouts, Roost and False Swipe allow you to essentially prolong a battle for an eternity Forcing your opponent to call for help every turn while you mercilessly pelt them with money, turning the game from a cute visualization of cartoonish dogfighting into a sort of meat grinder simulator where you drop Pokemon in one end and pick blood-soaked money out the other. Eventually you reach a maximum payout of a hundred thousand Pokedollars or three hundred ninety bucks and the battle collector winnings and start the process all over again Now we know that these battles happen in real time because time in the Pokemon world progresses at the exact same rate as our world, and amazingly this Streamlined process bumps your salary from a still pretty impressive six hundred and thirty nine dollars and forty nine cents per hour to one thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and 64 cents per hour or 2.4 million dollars a year. That is quite the freaking stack of cash a suspiciously high stack of cash. Which brings us back to what I mentioned earlier: "-and destroy entire nations in the process!" Those of you who know a thing or two about Economics know that money doesn't come from nowhere. And as far as I see it the move payday a move that remember involves throwing a literal, valid, spendable currency at your opponent acquires its money in one of two ways. Either A). It's a glorified printing press where whoever uses it is essentially pooping out fresh money on the fly which means you're really gonna have to invest in some.. money laundering..? Or B). It's teleporting valid currency from somewhere in the world into your pokemons hands. Essentially glorified theft, which 'yikes.' Now, I'm gonna be honest: according to my calculations one person doing this would not negatively impact the economy one way or the other by all that much. Although, I'm sure you would definitely raise some eyebrows over at the IRS. But if the chaotic windfall of bitcoins has taught us anything Where there's easy money to be made short-sighted people will come rushing from all corners of the globe There's a 100% chance if this money-making scheme were discovered, it would not remain a secret and in order to figure out the economic impact of this move, we're gonna have to figure out how many people are using it across the entire world of Pokemon. Now it's hard to tell exactly how many people would catch wise But we can build an approximation from the very video that outlines this method as of this moment the money making guide by Verlisify has 19 hundred likes on it, which is probably the closest estimate we'll get for folk who are playing Ultra Sun and Moon that are using this method. Now hold on to your butts because we're gonna use this one number: One thousand, nine hundred... and use it to blow your electrode. So considering that at least 1900 people are presumably using this method to get rich in ultra Sun and Moon, we need to figure out a few things; the population of the various Pokemon regions their gross domestic product or GDP, which is economic shorthand for how much money this country is worth. Although that's a bit reductive and it's incredibly difficult to know for certain how much money is in the world. This is the closest thing to a real number we can use to estimate how big the giant pool of Pokedollars is. The Pokemon canon is comprised of seven major regions- Kanto, Johto Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. All of which are based off of real world locations almost to the exact layout Kanto is the Kanto region of Japan, Johto is the Kansai region, Hoenn is the Kyushu and Sinnoh is the Hokkaido region while Unova is New York and New Jersey and Kalos is France and Alola, of course, is Iceland. I mean - Hawaii. Using the maps we have available, I overlaid them with the various regions our real world they're based on the get estimates of their area, which we can use in conjunction with population densities to get an estimated population Unova was the most difficult since the Hudson hack and saw and the East aren't perfectly aligned with a Unova while Alola was the easiest since I could just copy and paste everything. Given the approximate population densities of each region the Pokemon ones are based on and their square miles and kilometers I determined that Kanto has a population of seven hundred and thirty eight thousand, Johto eight hundred ninety four thousand Hoenn nine hundred and eighty seven thousand Sinnoh 1.3 million, Innova 8.7 million Kalos five hundred forty-seven thousand and Aloha eight hundred ninety seven thousand or a total population of fourteen point one seven million in all the mainstay Pokemon games. Since nineteen hundred people is exactly 0.21% of the population of Alola -and I'm presuming for the sake of simplicity that this percentage of users remains consistent across region- means that in total, there's approximately twenty nine thousand nine hundred ninety, three people using the payday and happy hour amulet Pokemon genocide method of money-making. Smart players start with booksOctober, 5th - Gambling addiction is the most popular topic nowadays. People spend a lot of money in order to be rich without any efforts. It’s not a secret that gambling is prohibited in many countries so people try to find online games or play while traveling.
In October, 1st, one of the most popular gaming website - Casinoslots.co.nz announces an extended guide for gambling addicted people and releases it on Amazon. It provides a full range of travel destinations where they can satisfy their dreams: Europe, Australia, Asia, South Africa and North America. “The collaborative efforts of all the six authors of the book, gives us the best destination for gambling from all over the globe. They all are experts at the art of gambling hence you will get an in-depth knowledge of all the tricks, etiquette, tipping etc. that is involved in the game. The writers of the book have also received critical acclamation. A very good and interesting bit of gambling life has been shared by them.” About AuthorsThis book is a collaborative project that included the work of six different writers: Aisyah Llewellyn, Aurelija Brazenaite, Charmaine Kedmenec, Dara Denney, Jessica Walrack and Marea Harris. All of whom used their own personal travel experiences coupled with extensive research to find the absolute best gambling destinations in the world. A Short ReviewWhat can you find in this book (https://www.amazon.com/World-Travel-Guide-Gamblers-countries-ebook/dp/B01GQL0DVC/):
Each of these steps will help you to build a bigger picture of the places they have covered, and will make the process of choosing the perfect holiday for you easier. If you read the section for each country, you should have a clear idea of which gambling destination is the one for you. What’s next?In January, 3rd, Casinoslots plans to release a 3D Map of all Gambling Spots inside covered in the book above Don’t miss the opportunity to download it until the price increases! Eleventy Traveller Blog is the first online magazine about gambling around the world. It provides information about different travel destinations, gaming spot reviews and news in this industry. How to manage a location independent business while you are travelling all over the place? As you may know, this needs a bit of planning and organization. You are not at home to fix everything easily when something goes amiss. When I started out to go location independent, initially all went smooth, but then 3 months in a foreign ATM ate my credit card and my laptop broke down at same time, causing some travel mayhem. Basically these were little problems, but when you are constantly travelling, these can be quite annoying and even disruptive to your work flow.
Fortunately there are travel hacks with makes life on the road so much easier and comfortable. In this post I hope to give valuable tips about financial, security and logistical issues to come in handy for when you are on the road. Financial One of the most important things is to be able to manage your finances wherever you are in the world, and to do so in a safe way. For instance: > Notify your bank that you will be travelling. This is easy to do and can save you a lot of trouble. When your bank is not aware of your exotic trips, often they will block your debit/credit card when your try to get money from ATM’s in suspicious countries known for skimming. > Automate the payment for all your bills. And if this is not possible, ask the company to email you the bills. For most of them this will not be an issue. > Get an online banking account. I find Skrill (used to be Moneybookers) very convenient, as they are convenient and reliable, and they issue their own credit cards These work more like debit cards, limiting your risk while you can access your spending from anywhere. The credit card works just like a normal Mastercard, so you can use it everywhere. Keep it Safe Security is another issue when you are on the road. When you lose important documents or your wallet gets stolen, it is much more disruptive than in case you are at home. Some tips: > Put your important documents in a safe whenever you can, or at a hidden place when a safe is not available. > Make copies of your passport and put these copies in different places. Keep one copy in your wallet. > Email to yourself scans of all important documents and a list of important phone numbers ( this is an “old school” method I like to use) or get an online drop box for this. If anything happens you can access all you important documents online. > Keep your credit cards separated. I.e. one in your wallet, another one in a hidden place at your casa. So in the unfortunate case your wallet gets missing or stolen, you still have a way to get money via your other credit card. Online Security Online security is especially important when you working online and/or have a business online. Some things I make sure are: > Use VPN. The reason to use a VPN is that although most internet connections over the world are quite secure these days, once you hit a rotten apple you are in big trouble. It easy for hackers to get your financial details through an open WiFi connection. With VPN you connect with a safe computer first, and use this computer to use the internet. So it is extremely safe, while you can use internet everywhere. Another benefit of VPN is that you can bypass firewalls in certain countries. I.e. some countries limit the accessibility of YouTube or Facebook When you connect via VPN to a safe computer that is located in say, the US, you can access the internet as if you are located in the US. I use StrongVPN, which I find to be very reliable and cost-efficient. They also have a good choice of locations. Other VPN networks which I used and found working very well are HideMyAss and VPNworld. Setting up a VPN is quite easy, so do not bail on VPN because of this, as you will experience that it has a lot of benefits. > Get a good laptop. And try not to use public computers and internet cafes for conduction business or financial transactions. Logistics & Internet > Choose places that have a good internet connection. One of my pet peeves is the speed of an internet connection. If it is lagging, the speed with you are working with online slows down considerably. In fact this is almost the only reason that constrains my travel choices out from a business perspective (of course, personal security is also one). > After you arrived, scout for cafes/coffee shops that have a good internet connection and a good working atmosphere (i.e. good table with chairs). Going out of the house, changing environment, and working in coffee shops will give you inspiration. If you approach it the smart way you can save quite a lot of money on travel costs. In this post I want to give some practical tips that you can use immediately.
Before You Go One (obvious) thing to note is that the your travel costs are directly connected to the ways you travel. For example going to a place by bus is much cheaper than travelling by air 99% of the time. However, personally however I find it difficult to get work done on a bus. As a workaholic “digital nomad” my time is dear to me, and allthough sitting in a bus to get from one country to another can be a wonderful experience, it takes too much time which I rather spend on other things. On the other hand it depends on the person and how you plan your lifestyle. That said, there are efficient ways to travel and many inefficient ways. Before I book trips I often use Wikitravel for reconnaissance, as the “get in” section is always very informative about the ways a place is connected to other places. I like to have a “base” from which I visit other places in the region, which has different requirement than if you do a string of visits through a loop or route. Either way you will book differently. How to Find the Cheapest Air Tickets Often the only option to get to a place in a reasonable time period is to go by plane. Personally I find this a convenient way to travel as the market is quite transparent. There are many ways to find the best way to fly from one place to another. There are good comparison websites for this, as Momondo or Skyscanner. Try them out. You can see which dates are the cheapest to fly on and which airline. A good doublecheck is to use Google. For instance in google search type “flights from London to Rio de Janeiro” which gives you all the airlines which fly on this route (replace the city names as you may please). You can compare these airlines with the comparison websites from the last paragraph. Ultimately you should check on their airlines websites themselves before you book. Compare Hotels and Apartments the Easy Way If you are in a place for a short moment, it makes more sense to get an serviced apartment or hotel than a private apartment, which often is more time consuming to arrange and hard to come by for periods shorter than a month. A well-known source for private short term apartment in a lot of cities is Airbnb (or its copycat, Wimdu). However, in general I find their prices not lower than serviced apartments or hotels, which provide better service on average. The positive aspect about Airbnb though is that the location of the apartments can be very good, and you often have a much more “local” experience. That said, I only consider using Airbnb when I will stay in places for at least a month. In that case prices are relatively lower and easier to negotiate. If you like to find a good private apartment, you can also do a google search on it and triangulate experience and reviews from different websites. To plan my stay for short trips I use the excellent Hotelscombined website, which compares all hotels and serviced apartments from the biggest booking sites (Hotels.com, Agoda.com and Booking.com amongst others) on price and availability in one overview. Thus, you never miss out on the best offer as is often the case when you go to one or two booking site separately. I really advice you to check it out, as it never failed me. Negotiate This is more for long trips, but can also be applicable for short trips when you deal with the owner of the property directly. Always negotiate about the price and/or secondaries (i.e. cleaning). I found this really applicable to Airbnb when I book at the last moment. The owner of the apartment does not have any offers for the month and still wants to salvage some money. You just want a good price. So this is an excellent opportunity to negotiate. In Airbnb you can send a private message to the owner to inquire. What I do most of the cases (to save time) I just put my budget in the message (which is lower than the monthly price) and see if the owner agrees or not. It never hurts to ask. Of course, this not only works for Airbnb, Wimdu or other similar sites, but also any other private owners you are dealing with. If you are advanced at negotiating you can even try this at hotels or serviced apartments. Book the first night, and then after arrival negotiate for the nights after. The only risk in this regard is that the hotel is fully booked. Plan Smart – Quick List for Cheap Travel Planning smart is an obvious tip but its details are often overlooked. If you plan really smart – both for your travel as your lodging – it can save you a lot of money when you put in a little time. For instance: > Figure out when the low-season is and go then. > For discounts book either far ahead or at the last moment (more risky though it works very well in low-season). > Roundtrip tickets for faraway destinations are much cheaper than oneway tickets, so it makes sense to fly to one point, and plan your big trip from there. So book trips for groups of countries at once (ie South America). > If possible travel slow. This gives you more time for everything, a better negotiation position and cheaper options (as you stay long-term). > Travel in off-hours, so you will get to your destination much quicker. Transport will be often cheaper, including taxis. I take this quite far, for instance I plan my arrival time + luggage collection so as not the end up in rush hour from the airport to my apartment/hotel. For me time = money. > Plan your lodging to be close to public transportation. When your location is far from public transport this can be a hidden cost, as you may have to walk far or you will have to take (more expensive) private options as taxis. This list does not cover all options of course. And it really depends on your requirements for comfort and your overall budget. When you are more the adventurous type, there are also extremely cheap options as Couchsurfing or staying in Hostels. These can be real fun, but personally I find it hard to manage my business in these places. Apartment hunting can be a time-consuming tasks that is usually re-done at least once a year throughout college list. If you don’t know what you’re doing, what you’re looking for, or what you’re finding, apartment hunting can be comparable to a root canal.
Location, Location, Location: Location really is ideal when looking for a college apartment. Because moving is part of the deal and college students usually do not come with a U-Haul full of furnishings and clutter, location always trumps space. The ideal college apartment should be within walking distance of the college, this makes it much easier to be actively involved in the college community, more importantly, this eliminates the need for a vehicle, which is an additional expense. If you choose to go further from the college campus, at least be sure that the complex is near public transportation that has frequent buses to take students to the campus. Prioritize Safety: Young college students are often a prime target for crime so safety is an priority when apartment hunting. Find an apartment that is full of other college students. Students tend to group together, watch each other’s back and walk or take public transportation with each another. Be sure the parking lot and doorsteps are well-lit, in a respectable neighborhood, and provides easy and safe access to the campus. An added benefit would be an area that is regularly patrolled by campus or city police officers. Where to look: One of the best places to start is by talking to the housing office or student government offices on campus, other students can provide valuable insight and advice that you can’t find from sites like Craigslist. It’s a good idea to get an inside scoop on a few places before you start looking. What to look for in an apartment: Generally, budget trumps everything else in apartment hunting, but there are a few things to keep in mind. First, decide if you can share a room, or if you need your own. Second, keep in mind the your location, not only in a good neighborhood, but your placement in the building. First floor apartments are generally more prone to crimes, but are you prepared to walk up and down three flights of stairs every day? Ask about parking, if you get an assigned stall and if it costs extra? Ask about the necessities such as air conditioning? Heating? Do the windows open? Are there screens on the windows? Is there laundry in the building? How much does it cost? Are utilities included? Is Internet and cable already hooked-up? Is there an on-site maintenance service? Understand Your Contract: There are generally two types of contracts when looking into an apartment that involves roommates: an apartment lease, or a tenant lease. If you sign a tenant lease, you are basically agreeing to pay your portion of the rent and you have the right to occupy your room. This means that it is up to the landlord to fill the apartments, and if someone moves out, someone else can move in with or without your approval. Generally, tenant leases can run anywhere from $300+/room. The benefit of this type of lease is that you are only responsible for your portion of the rent; you’ll never be responsible to cover rent for someone who moves out or doesn’t have the money on time. If you sign an apartment lease, you are renting the apartment as a whole and you’re responsible to sublet the other rooms. The benefits of apartment leases is you have control over who lives with you, but you’re also responsible to pay the full rent amount, regardless of whether your roommates move in or not. So, you might get stuck paying $600+ if your roommates don’t cough up their portion of the rent on time. The best advice is to decide ahead of time what is the most important to you. Perhaps you prefer a tenant lease with a private bedroom and laundry facilities. Or maybe you’d really like to live in a specific block area or have a swimming pool. Make a list of priorities, check with the local students or campus staff and start searching. You’ll be moving in before you know it! |
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