The problems of lawns and gardens can be stomped on if you use your heads, however. If one of those regular garden services is too expensive (at perhaps $50 a time), why not ask if there are any local garden-loving pensioners or kids who’d do the job (with their own equipment) for $25 or so. If there were, say, five of you, and you only had the job done every two weeks (maybe less in winter), it would only cost about $2.50 each a week.Not much money to offload a heap of hassles.
Apartments
The major disadvantages of apartments are that they are so much smaller than houses, and at times not that much cheaper. I’ve got a friend living at Bondi who pays $300 per week for a one-bedroom apartment.
It’s a great location, which is why the rent is so high. Because the rent was killing her, she decided to divide off part of the big living area and sublet that as a bedroom to help out. If you’re thinking about this, check your lease to make sure it doesn’t say you can’t have anyone else living there. James, another friend, rented a three-bedroom apartment in Cronulla for $500 per week.
Three bedrooms meant the rent was divided by three, so it ended up being quite a reasonable price. Apartments usually mean more security, but they also often mean parking problems—and sometimes apartment blocks are jammed up so close to each other that they become pretty dismal.
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