Saturday, May 10, 2008

Apartments: what we like

This is our checklist. It's not a hard-and-fast list, places we'll consider will have 80% of this. But mass transit, office, access to downtown is pretty essential.

Location (near transit, 0.5mi strict max, <0.2 ideal)
Location (near bike-to-work route, <6 miles from downtown)
Location (walkscore.com 80+)
Location (warm-fuzzy-safe-friendly)
Location (near JW's list of gyms)

Space (nice to live in, closets, hardwood, light)
Space (office - 1+ bedroom, 2 bedroom, den, nook, etc)
Space (kitchen – eat in, post-1990 appliances, dishwasher)
Space (bike friendly - garage space, elevator, ground floor, etc)
Space (parking for 1 available, street or garage ok)

Also:
Price (rent + parking) hard cap at 1200, target 1000.
Price (utilities estimate)

Move in date? (June 1)
Any management issues?

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