$800 for a 850 sq. ft. one-bedroom apt. in the Northern Chicago 'Burbs.
But I get free basic cable.
$975 for a sunny, spacious two-bedroom one block from the subway in glorious Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.
The rents in the area have really jumped with all the hipsters moving in. Shucks.
Blue Ridge Mountains of VA here. Right on the WV line.
$1600/month for a 135 year old farm house on 2 acres. Also has a guest house and a spring house that Mrs Chance has made me promise to turn into a pottery studio.
Maybe I should hold a mid-atlantic fest on my land. What does everyone think of that?
I was paying $725 for a two bedroom two bath 950 sq. ft. apartment in Grapevine, Texas (near DFW airport). Getting ready to move into a new three bedroom two bath with study and two-car garage 2100 sq. ft. house on the north side of Fort Worth at the end of September, when construction should be completed. Monthly payment will be around $1500, depending on what the interest rates do between now and the middle of September.
Well Necros, I’ve got you tied. $1700/month, not counting the payment on another $15K loan that was taken out to put a down payment on the house.
This is for a 4 bedroom/3 bath house an hour or so north of Denver, CO. It’s in a neighborhood of similiar houses. Had I decided I wanted to live in Boulder (about 15 miles west) it would have easily cost twice as much.
I pay $1100/mo. for a 2 bedroom.
My BF pays $3500/mo. for a 2 bedroom.
I usually stay at his place.
Brace yourselves…
My parents pay $4700/month for a nice 4 bedroom house that was built last April. Don’t bother telling me that my family is insane, because I know this already 
I pay $1365 a month for a 1300sq ft Townhouse in Seattle, It would be great to own a home but you cant buy 2 bdrm rambler in this city for less than 250K.
Oh well at least there are lots of jobs here…
See, Athena? They aren’t kiddin’ when they talk about the housing prices around here. I’m in Arvada, and have a 1700 sq ft house w/ 3br, 2ba. At least it’s in a nice neighborhood.
Two years ago I bought my 1000 sq. ft., 75-year-old (but renovated) bungalow in newly fashionable East Atlanta Village (in Atlanta, natch) for $94,500 minus a 10% downpayment.
My monthly mortgage payment is a highly affordable $611.
The great thing about mortgage as opposed to rent payments is that they are regressive against inflation, as opposed to progressive.
Maybe I got those terms backwards, but what I mean is five years from now my monthly payment won’t be more than $611, but $611 won’t be worth as much. In constant dollars, I pay less every year.
Whereas, in an apartment, my rent would keep going up to match my ability to pay it. Bummer, dude.
Amended answer: $761/month for a 1 br. terrace-level apartment with kitchen, living room, dining room and one bath. The apartment complex is about 2 miles from Mt. Vernon, in Virginia. No washer/dryer in the apartment, but the rent includes gas and water.
Illustrative difference: In Lakewood, Ohio we were paying $635 for half of a side-by-side duplex. We had 3 bedrooms, a full basement with washer/dryer, kitchen, dining, living, one bath and a finished attic.
$665 a month for two rooms. That’s actually good
for the area of New Jersey where I live.
We pay $395/month rent in a mid size city in Alabama for a three bedroom townhouse. On the down side, the carpet is easily ten years old and matted and stained beyond belief, I have three different layers of flooring visible in the kitchen, I can almost touch all four walls of the bathroom while standing in the center, there is no dish washer, garbage disposal, or washing machine/dryer, and the neighborhood is bad enough (or, if you are a cynic, black/hispanic enough) that we can’t get pizza after 9 or so.
On the upside, we have tons of glorious space. The kitchen/ dinning room combo is as big as the living room, and the living room isn’t small. And I sorta like stained carpet–I don’t hve to freak out if somebody spills a beer. We are less than a mile from school and work, and 3 miles from anywhere else we go, so rising gas prices haven’t really hit me yet. We have more spending money and more space than people in our income braket who have chosen slightly more posh surrondings; I find that a little finnacial wiggle room each month is important for my state of mind.
In the end, though, we are a couple of libral art majors with I think around 3000 books–I am willing to put up with almost anything to avoid moving them!
Roomie and I just signed a lease on a 2-bedroom coach home about 30 minutes west of Chicago. Nice 'hood, all appliances, 1-car garage. $975 a month.
$450/mo (plus utilities) for the top of a semi-old two-story house. High ceilings, hardwood floors, big kitchen, two big bedrooms, (both with big closets), remodeled bathroom, LOADS of storage space, basement with a washer and dryer and even more storage space, front yard with flowers, back yard with swingset, offstreet parking and a mere three blocks from school.
I love my new place.
I have managed to get pictures of my banker in a compromising position with a lady not his wife, and so I’m getting paid to live where I live! Heheheheheh.
OK, not really, but a man can dream.
So, what, JimmyNipples, you just wanted to brag?
When I lived in D.C. (Adams Morgan/Mt. Pleasant area), I paid $688/month for a large efficiency, including utilities. I looked out my windows and saw only trees.
I signed a lease last night for a place in Ukrainian Village, Chicago - My roommate and I will each pay $412.50/month (heated) for a sunny 2 bedroom in a renovated coach house with 2 porches. I know people live even cheaper in this city, but I’m a 5 minute walk from the eL. And did I mention the 2 porches?
I pay $350 a month in Columbia, SC. I don’t know how many square feet, but I have a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with full kitchen, washer and dryer, central heat and air, and a sizable yard with yard maintenance service.
I live in Military housing. It’s not that bad, we’ve got a medium sized 2 bedroom apartment, fairly nice. The downside is that it’s on the 4th floor, no elevator, and the laundry is in the basement. But hey, it’s free, and we have a nice view of the mountains.
(Yeah, I know that it’s not really free, since we get paid less for the “priviledge” of living on post, but I wanted to win.)
Yikes! I’m paying $1600 on my mortgage here in SF for 620 square feet in a “transitional” neighboorhood. No yard. No balcony. But I do have skylights and southern exposure. And I get to live in San Francisco.