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"I should be happy my boyfriend makes more than $19,380 annually. I should be happy my boyfriend makes more than $19,380 annually."
This is what I've been chanting to myself all day as I get turned down for apartment after apartment after townhome. Because this is a military town, the town caters to military families. Unfortunately, unless you're high ranking in the military, you make sh*t for income. And if your family makes more than $19,380 annually , then you are unable to live in certain complexes. The apartments and townhomes are tailored to meet military income. But $19,380 a year is boardering on poverty level, sadly enough. I think it's awesome that the community does this, so military families can have really decent apartments at a really decent price.
What I don't think is awesome, however, is the sheer amount of housing communities that implement this policy, and the number of housing communities that don't tell me they enforce this rule until I'm at the leasing office, all excited that I've found "The One." Or "The Two." In fact, all of my top 10 apartment/townhomes are unavailable to us because Dustin makes much more than the maximum allowed income. *head desk* When I tell the apartment/townhome people that we want to save money this year for our wedding and to buy a house next year, and Dustin's still paying a pretty hefty truck payment each month, they shrug and say "sorry", and point me in the direction of complexes in Dustin's price range. According to Dustin's income, he should be paying about $750/month for an apartment, excluding utilities.
Perhaps I'm more spoiled than I originally thought, having snagged an apartment in Atlanta for $550/month. Houses in Atlanta are well over $200,000. Houses here are less than half of that, for a comparable style and size. Then why are the apartments so much more expensive here?
Oh yeah. Because my boyfriend makes too much money. *head desk*
"I should be happy my boyfriend makes more than $19,380 annually," indeed.
This is what I've been chanting to myself all day as I get turned down for apartment after apartment after townhome. Because this is a military town, the town caters to military families. Unfortunately, unless you're high ranking in the military, you make sh*t for income. And if your family makes more than $19,380 annually , then you are unable to live in certain complexes. The apartments and townhomes are tailored to meet military income. But $19,380 a year is boardering on poverty level, sadly enough. I think it's awesome that the community does this, so military families can have really decent apartments at a really decent price.
What I don't think is awesome, however, is the sheer amount of housing communities that implement this policy, and the number of housing communities that don't tell me they enforce this rule until I'm at the leasing office, all excited that I've found "The One." Or "The Two." In fact, all of my top 10 apartment/townhomes are unavailable to us because Dustin makes much more than the maximum allowed income. *head desk* When I tell the apartment/townhome people that we want to save money this year for our wedding and to buy a house next year, and Dustin's still paying a pretty hefty truck payment each month, they shrug and say "sorry", and point me in the direction of complexes in Dustin's price range. According to Dustin's income, he should be paying about $750/month for an apartment, excluding utilities.
Perhaps I'm more spoiled than I originally thought, having snagged an apartment in Atlanta for $550/month. Houses in Atlanta are well over $200,000. Houses here are less than half of that, for a comparable style and size. Then why are the apartments so much more expensive here?
Oh yeah. Because my boyfriend makes too much money. *head desk*
"I should be happy my boyfriend makes more than $19,380 annually," indeed.
