The local property management company owns three rooming houses. Rent is only $400.00 per month including utilities. Yay or nay 
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yeeeeaaaah it’s an option. I considered it at one point. The people I know who’ve lived in rooming houses and since moved to public housing celebrated with a sigh of relief and considered this moving up in the world though…so I guess when moving into public housing is moving up in the world this might put the rooming house life in perspective.
But if it’s the only option or the best current option then well it certainly beats the streets…what are your other options? Are you on any sort of waiting list for public housing? or low income or whatever?
Of course I have no clue what public housing is like in your area 
here it’s not too bad.
I’ve lived in some pretty decrepit places - over run with cockroaches and what not. There was usually at least one person in those places who was totally crazy and causing problems.
have you gone to see any of them? Go check them out and see how they are…I mean there are nicer rooming houses than others…I know in my area there are some nice ones and then there’s the one known for housing sex offenders and being infested with bed bugs…
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I have seen pictures.
- Very clean tiled floors
- Oak table+chairs
- Fridge
- Wood dresser
- Bed
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I would say go and see it in person.
You never know about these places from pictures alone. There was this place in my last city we called the “Crackilac Motel” that looked decent online but was in reality a glorified crack house…“Clean rooms and loving owner” it always said and we always joked that the rooms might be clean but you gotta love the owner"…
Anyway…see if you can’t go down there and see it in person to get a better idea.
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Yeah, I would check it out in person to see if you physically like it. As with a lot of things, it’s the people there who might make it or break it. If you decide to move in you will be living in close quarters with strangers. You would be taking a chance on who your housemates are. I’ve never lived in one but from 1995-2009 I rented rooms in private houses. I wanted to live on my own but at the same time I wanted to be around other people so I wouldn’t get suicidal. Plus it was cheaper than sharing an apartment or a house. My experience with renting rooms is that you have built in friends. I lived in 4 different houses and in EVERY house the people were friendly and wanted to be friends. Seriously. So the people you live with may be very cool,nice, and friendly! I think most people who live in situations like rooming houses or renting rooms just want to get along. No one likes being uncomfortable and making enemies in your own home.but on the other hand, I would say that the more people there are the more conflicts there will be.
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I’m worried about the thin looking doors. What if someone knocks my door down and assaults me.
Have you ever heard of that happening? If you have heard of that, how many times have you heard of it? Have you known or seen someone who did this in your life experience? My guess is that it is not that common. If someone broke down your door, everybody would hear it and call the police probably or do SOMETHING to help a female. But everybody in the whole house has the same chance of that happening. I’ve never experienced it and I’ve lived with some really rough characters. Druggies, ex-cons, former homeless people, bad army veterans etc. I got along with all of them. But a lot of them didn’t like each other and the police were called several times. I’m not saying it’s impossible but I’ve only seen it happen ONCE, to people I didn’t know. But don’t piss people off so bad that they go crazy. Hey, I’ll tell you, I lived in a Board & Care home from 1990-95. I had to share a room and their were no doors in the bedrooms! There were 14 of us guys and a lot of those guys were tough characters too. But in 5 years no one laid a hand on me. I’m as paranoid as the next guy but if I don’t start trouble, everybody leaves me alone, even the people who don’t like me.
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the only time I’ve heard of a door getting kicked in and the person getting assaulted… It was not random.
It was a dispute about something nefarious. 
