By a profound coincidence, I’m trying to rent out an apartment here in the 'Ville that is a “large 1 BR, $1250 includes gas, heat & water (and live-in super who is awesome)” – the super being me, and my awesomeness being debatable.
No, I’m not trolling for renters – I was just struck by the coincidence.
We have a 1700 square foot colonial house dating from the 1920’s on a 110 x 60 foot lot in Northern NJ about twenty miles from midtown Manhattan. It has a decorative wrap around front porch, three medium sized bedrooms upstairs and one tiny bedroom downstairs, two full and one half baths, a dining room, living room, a kitchen that needs updating and a home office with a separate door to the outside deck. The basement is unfinished and there’s an attic as well.
Including utilities and taxes ($4k a year) we pay about $1800 a month. We bought the house about seven years ago for $284k. The town just did a reassement for tax purposes and it was appraised at $305k. I’m trying to be grateful that it didn’t come in below the purchase price.
Near Cincinnati ohio, a one bedroom with heat included for 400.
I pay $390 a month for a larger one bedroom apt. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. My son has the bedroom and I have the couch. There’s $12.50 monthly for the water heater. It was a bargain with a$99 security deposit. We’re down the street from Wal-mart, Menards, the Post Office, and a gas/convenience store. Although I have a Harley to ride, but during the winter I take the bus which is just across the street. Also, the VA clinic is walking distance for me.
$1872 for 720 sq ft. We live in a high-rise, but the utilities are on us. That’s the price for living next to the mall and the metro stop.
1br in Notting Hill overlooking Portobello Road. Probably about 700 sq ft. No balcony or dishwasher. It has a washing machine, but inexplicably, no dryer.
At today’s exchange rate, I pay $1911.71.
Quite the leap from my digs in the States.
810/mo is my total monthly payment (taxes, PMI, P&I and homeowners ins) for a ~1400sf - 3 bd/2ba slump block ranch home built in 1968 but well maintained and with a ~5 yr old pebbletec pool.
The home is in a very middle-class neighborhood with a seemingly high percentage of older couples or widow(er)s in the northwest area of Phoenix, AZ.
I think it’s a pretty good deal. 
Anyplace you can hang your wash? My dorm suite in Japan had a washer and a “dryer,” the latter of which didn’t *dry *things so much as it made them hot and damp. Everyone in the whole complex just hung our wash outside to dry.
The rents are high in Southern New Hampshire. Around 900 w/o utilities for a large 2 bedroom in a nice neighborhood. It is a converted house so there are only 4 units. I have all new appliances dishwasher and washer and dryer. It’s all gas so it is very reasonable. new windows and a nice porch to sit and read. It is such a great place to live. I can walk to church or the store or around town with my dog and it is very scenic and safe.
I don’t do laundrymats. For the man whose dryer just gets the clothes hot, call your landlord. The exhaust is blocked. Pull out the dryer and detach the hose and vacuum it out. There is just no way for the steam to escape. For the man with just a washer look on craigslsit for a stackable unit. The new ones do a full load of clothes. I’m looking for one myself to free up some space for a folding table.
We just drape them over the heaters and pray for the best. We don’t have any way of hanging things outside though even if we did, I don’t think it would do much good. Seems London made some sort of deal with the sun where it is allowed to come and go as it darn well pleases, and I guess we just don’t please it much. I seriously think there’s been one sunny day in the month and a week that I’ve been here. Maybe I should start leaving out offerings. What would you even offer a sun? A cold beer perhaps?
I love these two sentences together. I’d kill for the apartment you describe for that price.
a.) Woman.
b.) Yup, either the exhaust was blocked or it was just a crappy dryer (it was tiny).
c.) This was when I lived in Japan, about six years ago. As the dryer is now 6,000 miles away, I don’t care anymore. 
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A Spoonful of Awesome, that’s really weird that you’d have no dryer but also no place to try clothes.
$1000/month, water included, I pay for electricity. This is in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, VA, and I’m in a medium-sized one-bedroom. No frills in the building (doorman, gym, etc) - but I don’t need or want them, and I really like my place. For my neighborhood, it probably costs a little below average.
Southeast Missouri. Smallish one-bedroom, with heat, trash, and basic cable included = $400/ month. That may even be high for this area, I’m not really sure. Oh, and the neighborhood is great, my friend got something stolen out of his car before while he was here, but he always leaves his car unlocked. I’ve never had any problems like that.
Yeah, “weird” was the term I used when I first moved in. It’s since graduated to “downright annoying”, with a hearty dose of “impossibly frustrating” thrown in for that home-style, neuron-cooking taste.
Have you picked up some kind of drying rack? That would probably have better results (and take up less space) than just draping clothes over furniture, heaters, etc.
And a third entry from Southern Maine from me alone.
I just signed a lease yesterday in South Portland (a suburb of Portland, not an area of Portland) on a 2 bedroom condo (rental) fully applianced, but no utilities included for $795/mo. And I can’t friggin’ wait to move in.
Have you ever been to Kezar Falls? I used to have a place there.
Yes, I was in Kezar Falls once, but the guy playing banjo on the porch kind of freaked me out, so I didn’t go on the canoe trip afterall.
But seriously … I don’t get out to the sticks too often. I think I have been through Kezar Falls on the way to NH; it’s pretty remote.
you aren’t just whistling dixie, my friend. When I took my ex up to the place, we made a wrong turn and cujo came out of the tarpaper shack (with shiny oversized satellite dish) and licked our window so hard it rocked. which made cujo growl and my ex throw the omni quickly in to reverse . . .
We pay $824/month for a 2bd/2ba apartment in Raleigh, about 10 minutes from downtown. I guess that’s what that extra dollar gets you!
We have about 950 sq feet, water and washer/dryer included. When we moved here, we planned to stay 6 months while we looked for a house to buy. The credit market exploded and we are happy here, so we’re going to wait until next year (when my youngest goes to school and I go back to work) to buy. We’ve been here over three years now. We like the area so much, we’ll probably buy a house in the neighborhood across the street.