Renting Your First Apartment 🏡

Essential financial tips and lessons for students looking to rent their first apartment! Finding the perfect cozy one bedroom online is exciting, but you might need to save up more money than you think to rent it. It's not just the monthly rental fee that you should budget for. Consider things like deposits, groceries, parking, laundry, furniture and decor, and so much more. We explain it all in this cute skit 🥰

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[ScaredyCat]

They should have taught us all this in school 😭. The CALM (Career and Life Management) highschool class in Alberta never covered this stuff.

[sanityssakearts]

You probably could swing that rent with a part-time job, just as long as you never took a sick day and were also working a full-time job.

[KarizzleJ]

1650 w/ no washer and dryer is criminal

[dlo]

This hurts my heart for my kids. I had a hard time in Edmonton at at $300/mo when I graduated HS. My kids could never afford what rent is now, and there is NO cap for landlords to raise the rent in AB. 😢

[teknosbeka]

In Denmark and Hungary the deposit ir more likely to be 2-3 months of rent + you also might have to pay 2-3 months of rent in advance.

In Denmark you also loose most of your deposit - this is the main reason why I can’t afford to move😅

[ralphman]

The ending is so me after scraping my idea

[RandySoWavvy]

Lmao the rent is never just the rent it starts at 1650 then the apartment adds another 100-200 in fees like trash valet, parking, parcel locker, amenities, etc 🙄 then you get to add all the fun stuff on top of it like utilities, renter’s insurance, wifi, etc

[H.P.Blavatsky]

Here’s a tip
If you’re one person, living alone, wash your clothes in a plastic tub in the bathtub

It actually goes by a lot faster and easier than you think and saves you a ton of money
You only need to go to the laundromat for your bedsheets

[ErickAnderson]

I was told I needed $3, 5 00 to move in. Only paying $1, 175 per month

[L.Y.N.X.]

Im wearing the same exact green sweatshirt rn!!

[CinSins]

I have no place to live so I’m in a big rush to find a place unfortunately my credit isn’t the best but not because I missed payments but bc I have a high usage rate and I recently received two collections for something that was supposedly paid off already, I have no money rn and welp ya

[bluesky]

I miss when my apartment was in the $600s in 2016. Now it's in the $1100s in 2024.

[rubychen]

lol, i got an apartment for 1525 in downtown Edmonton. 2 beds and 2 bathroom with laundry attached. It’s totally doable with a roommate.

[Puppysnack]

Landlords cannot legally require a security deposit in Ontario. But you need first and last months rent.

[Gallalad]

1650?!?! I’m heading to Edmonton apparently.

[Abbylovesrunning]

guess im just gonna be sleeping on the floor, no food, no nun to pay rent and that security deposit

[justkimoraaa]

Thanks for this im trying to move out at 19 and i am not prepared

[jessiec]

Are you seriously saying you can afford that rent price on a part time job?

[odhobbz]

thank you I’m saving for my first apartment now, I didn’t know renters insurance was a thing

[astridicarus]

The best financial advice i've ever gotten is to give up on canada and move to America. The bar is so much fcking lower. I have my own house & car. If i was still trying to make it in Canada i'd be in my parents spare bedroom :(