Building in an Apt. ....no room....

If your just looking for storage at this point, you could start ***embling the parts for your car project and stash them in your apartment. Then, when you buy a house, it would be pretty much like a 1:1 model kit.

 

Glad I don't live where you guys do. My wife and I just bought a nice 3 bd/ 1ba house with a detatched 2 car garage for $75,000. My house payment is $500/mo and that includes taxes and insurance.

 

I feel you pain man. I live in an apartment too.......but Im married to the manager. I stored my 58 Apache in our car port. But my 26T is stored at a friends house, my hemi engine stored at another friends house. Find somebody that will let you mothball your **** at their place. Or you could try a storage place. I have known a few people who have done this.

Im too poor to even rent a storage unit. Any extra money I make is thrown into tuition or photo ****. Good luck in what ever the hell ya do.


Mike

 

good looking bike you got there.

is there enough room to build a small car where your other bikes are stored?

if there is you could move your bikes into your apartment with you and build the car in the garage..

or better yet find someone who already has a shop with room and share expenses there.

it would be cool to have a club garage, not only for shared space costs but tools and equipment too.

it would be inspiring to be surounded by other projects.

Paul

 

My rent for an older two bedroom modular home is $1200, and that is a STEAL! I'm sure other SoCal people can agree.

We don't really have townhouses here, but condos are $220,00+, and houses are double that to start. In the paper "starter houses" (which here are older two or three bedrooms/one bath houses in less desirable places) are around $300,000. But I guess you have to pay for this weather!

 

no typo on the $110,000. and i am not bragging by any means. i would love to share the wealth with all of you. i am just pissed that i had to blow out my l knee, tore my rotator cuff on my r shoulder, broke my neck, etc. working for someone else for twenty years, then i figured out if you want to make really good money, find someone else that is doing it and copy what they do. soon you will be there too.

 

same exact prices here!!!!!!! and we get ****py weather!! hey...no fair!!!

i pay 900 amonth for a SMALL 1 bedroom apt. SMALL

the townhome is 200k 2 bedroom no garage no ba*****t

 

Townhouse for 200k.....
RENT for 900/mo.


New suggestion, move the hell away from there.

900/mo. will buy a $100,000 house easy in the midwest. Key word BUY. Rent is half of what you are talking about.

I hate so say it though you better learn how to part with your bikes man. If you get too attached they'll be your undoing. Besides getting rid of something is a great excuse for starting something new...


P.S.
I appologize for jumping your *** - I am getting cranky in my old age...

 

Well then, you should move out here then! Same prices, better weather!!

 

the payment on a $200,000 loan at todays rate is $1000.00 there is also loans that start at$700.00 a month, pretty affordable.

 

look at this...something i know about...i;m in philly, my wife and i have a 1 bedroom palace..complete with a closet i call a garage..don't believe me..well...

What i do, is look for small stuff i need, kill swap meets for stuff, and try to check the cl***ifieds....ALOT...also, have a buddy keeping my exclusive valve cover ***ortment in his loft...he's nice like that.. but saving for a house, and looking to rent one is our objective.. i am not here to whine, i hear ya.. but it will take time...i go crazy sometimes trying to figure out how to get to work on my car..when that happens i take a cold shower...withdrawal ****s.

 

I built my '59 Caddy he**** in an outhouse.
Caffeine, all it takes is grim determination.

 

That reminds me of my dad building his Panhead bobber bak in the 50's (he was a teenager) in a 3rd story apt complex. Nobody even knew he had a bike until it was started one day....

His mother was pissed when she saw the oil stains on her hardwood.

 

How about talking your parents into letting you put up one of those temporary type "Costco" garages at their place to store the bikes. Then you could take over their whole garage with your car project. Get your old man involved in it too. Building a car could be a great family project. Then he could be working on it even when you're not there. Leave him a list of stuff you want done.

 

I can't believe what you guys pay for real estate! I guess that's why there are so many Californians up here. Here's what $75,000 bought me:

 

that 2 car garage is 7500 on long island. i know where he is coming from how about 8500 in taxs for 60x200

 

Move to the boonies of mi. i bought a 4 bedroom i bath house with 4.5 acres for 31k it was 8 years ago but the prices havent changed much problem is you have to drive 30 minutes to get gas or work and i drive 45 min to get good work. so pricing houses depends on what you want you pay for what you get my house is nice but i didnt get any convience

 

in sacramento 4.5 acres with no house is between $250,000 to $900,000 . that makes me want to sell and go to mi. but we went jet skiing yesterday and i think you guys are still snow skiing back there. it was 90 yesterday.

 

i would move somewhere in a heartbeat if there was work. (and i mean work in my field) I love my job.

it just happens that all the companies are based out of NJ/NYC metro area or LA area. i hate to move to the left coast and leave me family.

basically it seems like its high, but the pay is very good.

at least thats what i keep telling myself!!!!

i travel a lot for work, like once every 1-2 months so that cool.
and yeah..im think ing about just renting a garage for now.

ill keep you guys posted..ii need to go stripe a panel for the raffle thingie.

no hard feelings to whoever couldnt spell

its all good

-rob "caffeine"

 

you went jet sking yesterday and i was playing automotive icecapades(??spelling??) see what i mean you pay for what you get!

 

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What's that green stuff all over the ground?? Is that that plant they call "gr***"? Hahahaha! I'd kill for some gr***!

Good luck caffene. But my humble opinion is to save for a house, if that's what you really want. You've got plenty to keep you bust until then.

 

Hey Caffeine...welcome to the HAMB! As for housing and work spaces...you could always move here, to San Antonio. The cost of living is really low...so is the pay scale, though. It's all relative. Save for the house and/or rent a work space in the meantime. Start colleccting your parts, now, though.

Dan

 

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it just happens that all the companies are based out of NJ/NYC metro area or LA area. i hate to move to the left coast and leave me family.
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I thought you said you worked in Information Security. If you think it's confined to NYC/NJ or LA you need to get a grasp. I basically do IS as well as IT in Raleigh, NC. I work on a grant for one of the Tobacco Companies. We have this thing down here, maybe you've heard about it, it's calle Research Triangle Park. I hear they have something like it in Austin as well. And I have a friend who just got hired in Vegas to do, of all things, Information Security for one of the casinos. So don't think your stuck where you are. Plus the cost of living here is about half if your paying $900 for a 1 bedroom apt. I got a 1900 sq.ft. brick 50's ranch, a 2500 sq.ft. garage, and an acre of land for $135k. Get out while you can. The gr*** is definately greener down here....

 

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-rob "caffeine"



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We're cool now. I had a beer.

Could you go and spell chaeck the 700+ other posts I have made, could be some misspelled wurds.

 

quiet about Michigan boonies!!!!...we are being Californicated enough

 

This thread inspired me to add a link to Caffeine's site under a new category for pinstripers on my site's Automotive Artists page, at http://www.roadsters.com/art/

I have worked on lots of hot rod and Harley parts in the house or apartment. Back when I lived in Canada, often that was the only place that wasn't too cold. I can remember being 18 with a T-bucket in the ba*****t, with a bedroom filled up with a '39 knucklehead and a '54 panhead.

Good luck to you, Ron. It looks like you're off to a great start.

Dave
http://www.roadsters.com/

 

caffiene, why don't you move to PA and commute to Jersey? Welcome to the board too. later plmczy