> > No fun! :( I wish you the best of luck with finding a new place.
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> I can say the same thing. I have been in the situation myself, where the landlord wanted to sell the apartment I was renting from him. I had one month to find a new apartment. Too bad, because the previous one was the best I have ever lived in so far.
> I also wish Rifty good luck in finding a new place.

In days of old we had a solution to problems like this. We called it "buy a house and stop throwing money away on rent," But that doesn't work anymore. You have to be rich to buy much of a house, or you have to have a time machine so you can go back and get one at 20th century prices. Time machines probably cost more than they used to.

One solution that requires only marginal richness is to buy a duplex or a big old house that has been cut up into apartments. If you can round up a down payment, the rent you collect will make the morgage payments. Such arrangements might even give you some dandy tax breaks.

I know some people who live in an apartment that is over a garage. It's about 20 X 20 feet, and being minimal in every way, it only costs $300 a month, or $3600 a year. If they had a tent they could save that money up for a downpayment. But who wants to live in a tent?

Or you could build one. The big catch here is land and materials, but I knew a family that did it. They lived in a trailer (Not a mobile home -- a travel trailer.) and built a kitchen, bathroom and a living room. They sold the trailer, moved into phase one and started phase two. After several building phases over a period of 10 years, they had a nice big house with no morgage. I guess it helps to know how to drive a nail.
Howard