# My life as the old fox/goose/grain conundrum **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 22, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-as-the-old-fox-goose-grain-conundrum/784988 "2017-04-22T15:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-as-the-old-fox-goose-grain-conundrum/784988/21 "2017-04-23T05:20:55Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Yeah, it’s amazing how much a pile of money can smooth over all sorts of problems. > > Trying to save money is liable to cost you even more money in the long run so you just have to resign yourself to papering over the cracks with lots and lots of pictures of Benjamin Franklin. **Lemur866** is totally correct. A lot of the issues that landlords are worried about can be traced to bouncing checks. I texted a picture of my bank statement (with account info blacked out) to the homeowner I rented from, and there were no more questions. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-as-the-old-fox-goose-grain-conundrum/784988/22 "2017-04-23T06:02:11Z")
Look at a sublet for a month or two–while you find a longer term place. Here is the Portland Craigslist section with dogs OK and house or duplex as search criteria: > **[portland sublets & temporary - craigslist](https://portland.craigslist.org/search/sub?availabilityMode=0&pets_dog=1&housing_type=4&housing_type=6)** > > portland sublets & temporary - craigslist Put most of your stuff in a storage place. Get quotes from [http://www.uship.com](http://www.uship.com) for transportation. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-as-the-old-fox-goose-grain-conundrum/784988/23 "2017-04-23T14:35:03Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > You could ask on the Portland forum on city-data, or just doing some reading there might help. Thanks for the pointer. I am just now ramping up my specific info-sources and this is one I only vaguely knew about (not having spent my rootless/student/starting years in the internet era…) > [@Lemur866](#): > > Trying to save money is liable to cost you even more money in the long run so you just have to resign yourself to papering over the cracks with lots and lots of pictures of Benjamin Franklin. Yeah, I need to preserve my capital as much as I can, but it’s worth some expense to buy a quiet, stable year while I grow roots. I could squeeze into an apartment 30 miles out and commute and have to walk the dogs three times a day and all that… but if I can get a house+yard a little closer in and avoid all the petty hassles, it will make all the other problems a lot easier to deal with. > [@PastTense](#): > > Look at a sublet for a month or two–while you find a longer term place. > […] > Put most of your stuff in a storage place. Exactly the plan. Unless I get a really capacious place, I will leave a lot of things in storage, possibly including the Mustang. Just so much easier. As it now looks like I won’t be in the best position to buy until I get my share of the house proceeds a year onwards, living small and quiet looks best. Been meaning to add: I don’t even want to begin to think about knowing how to add up the stress index for all this. No, thanks, I don’t need any help with that. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-as-the-old-fox-goose-grain-conundrum/784988.md?page=1)