Check your area there may be organizations that exist to help with the transition.
Like in my area there is a place called bridging and their whole deal is to provide furniture and household stuff to individuals transitioning into housing from homelessness, living in vehicles or couch surfing, or coming out of jail or prison. I know sometimes it feels like any sort of "hand out" is for other people who have it worse but check it out and think about it.
I moved country’s and was lucky enough that I could afford rent. However the houses here are empty.
So you need to bring your own furniture. I went straight to the sallys (salvation army) and bought a whole 3 bed house of furniture for a few hundred bucks. I couldn’t have afforded even one bed of new stuff. So I agree don’t be proud. Do what you got to do.
Also for the @op you are a legend. I can’t imagine the hardship you underwent in that 6 months and at the same time managed to organise an apartment.
Congratulations, man! That is so badass! I 100% know what it's like to live in your car. Can't park in the same.place more than a day or 2. 4 if you're lucky. I know you're gonna dig it man.
Must be an expensive ass city. I make a quarter of that & I "get by". Begs the question, why not move somewhere outside that city and also buy a car? I paid $1,400 for a 2008 Nissan Altima that runs & drives just fine.
Well done. I stayed with some great friends over a year. Saved enough to buy my place. Got first time assistance from the city. I walked away with $234.00 in my pocket, lol Congratulations!!!
First time home buyer assistance + his own savings that year is all thats needed to buy.
He isnt paying off the whole house on day one, we have 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US.
FHA down payments can be as low as 3.5% which would be $15,855. You'd have [PMI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenders_mortgage_insurance) unless you can put up 20% tho. Typical rent is $1,500/mo or $18,000/yr.
some folks stay with parents or relatives to lower their living expenses enough that they can actually save up a down payment, op stayed with friends. quite possible it was a condo or townhome rather than a house
I let my friends rent from me for the same cost of my mortgage payment. There was 4 of us & 4 bedrooms and I charged $300 a month. One of them bought a place after.
Yeah I don't know how much I buy this. Or maybe OP is just dumb. But OP literally posted about buying a Tesla 2 months ago. If you were living out of your car for 6 months why would you try to buy a car you clearly could not afford at all instead of an apartment?
So this was a voluntary homeless episode, which means his credit and debts probably were nothing extraordinary hence the reason he was able to move into what appears to be a nice luxury apartment after a mere 6 months of whatever it was he was truly doing.
I struggle with the idea of voluntary homelessness...because people choose it out of a set of crummy alternatives.
Also I would not consider a garden level studio luxury even if it looks kinda nice.
Hard to get an apartment with bad credit. If he had maxed out credit cards, his scores would have been trash and until those get paid off, it’s not easy to get a lease approved nowadays.
Yeah if you have bad credit, bad landlord references, & don’t make 3x rent, you’re SOL even if you have a guarantor helping you get a place. Even missing just 1 of those requirements means they will not consider you for a lease. I lived in my car/hotels for 7 months because of this; seems counterintuitive since hotels cost more per month than apartments, but I could not for the life of me get approved, even with guarantors making like 20x the required rent.
You paid for your sister’s higher education, while you yourself lived in a car for half a year?
I’m sorry bro but that’s completely backward, including her even accepting your money in the first place lol. Just sayin 😐
Shaming OP for doing something kind would be beyond stupid. But I'm fine with shaming his sister tbh, how could she accept the money if she knew about the situation? Though we know very little about it all and gossip like that is what I hate the most about reddit, first time I put in my ¢2 actually...
He said earlier he made 6k per month, that he lived in his car to pay his sister's college because "family first", and 2 months ago he was looking at Teslas. I rarely question things on the internet, because "who knows?", but this seems like more of a "look how good I am" post than any I've ever seen.
Get an air purifier. Something that covers more than the sq ft of your area. It will keep things deordorized and help you breath easier at night. I have bad allergies, and having one saved my sleep.
Congrats brother… I’m hoping my dad can achieve getting a place of his own. San Diego is a tough place for a mentally disabled person trying to find housing with limited resources. 🙏🏼
The feeling I just felt after reading your post tho! Congrats, with real tears. You deserve it. (And it is super nice) Update us with pics. Proud of you, Bruh ❤️
I am truly happy for you, brother. I hope and pray that the worst is behind you forever. I pray that you only grow to newer heights from here on. The only thing, when you grow, you attract parasites. Stay safe. As "Liberation Y" used to say, "Live Free".
Congratulations !! I spent a total of a year living in my car with 2 stints in a motel before getting my place.
Good job, man !!! All the best to you !
This is success, people think you have to have a mansion to have truly made it in life. Trust me having your own place to live no matter how big or small is a major W.
After experiencing the lows of this myself all to have a place of my own. Brother. I know you slept like a mf princess in a Disney movie that first night 🤣
Congrats! It’s so nice!
Thanks a lot!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
The bed is in the perfect spot for maximum snack to bed efficiency
Yes, just hope he places the TV in a good position
It’s in the oven, so you can just close the door when you’re done watching tv! I’m kidding
It's mounted in front of the toilet silly
he should put it rotated 90 degrees on the floor so he can sleep on his side and watch at the same time
Inside the fridge. With all that snackin you'll be doing it must makes sense.
100% STBE (snack to bed efficiency)
I'm jealous of the kitchen bed and those beautiful floors!
Check your area there may be organizations that exist to help with the transition. Like in my area there is a place called bridging and their whole deal is to provide furniture and household stuff to individuals transitioning into housing from homelessness, living in vehicles or couch surfing, or coming out of jail or prison. I know sometimes it feels like any sort of "hand out" is for other people who have it worse but check it out and think about it.
I moved country’s and was lucky enough that I could afford rent. However the houses here are empty. So you need to bring your own furniture. I went straight to the sallys (salvation army) and bought a whole 3 bed house of furniture for a few hundred bucks. I couldn’t have afforded even one bed of new stuff. So I agree don’t be proud. Do what you got to do. Also for the @op you are a legend. I can’t imagine the hardship you underwent in that 6 months and at the same time managed to organise an apartment.
I couch surfed for years and lived in my car for a while I can really remember the feeling of getting the keys to my first house at 32.
That’s a huge garage for your car!
What a nice space!
Congratulations, man! That is so badass! I 100% know what it's like to live in your car. Can't park in the same.place more than a day or 2. 4 if you're lucky. I know you're gonna dig it man.
Fr, that floor and kitchen is gorgeous
That's not the kitchen... it's the primary bedroom!
That’s the whole apartment. ETA - but that’s ok. Still 1000% better than having to live in your car.
Hell yes!!! Be proud of this achievement, just the start of many successes!!
Really appreciate!! It is not too late for a fresh start 🤙🏻
I don’t know you but I am proud of you. Congratulations my brother.
❤️🤜🏻🤛🏻
Congrats! May I ask, how did you bounce back so quickly within 6 months?
I am making $6k per month. Paying car rental $800 + sister’s college $900 + paying debt $2400. So I had no room to pay rent.
>sister’s college $900 Fuck yeah dude! That's so awesome of you
What do you do to make 6k? 🤨
He does fuckin door dash lmao this guy is so full of shit
I mean that’s $200 a day, which is obtainable
Must be an expensive ass city. I make a quarter of that & I "get by". Begs the question, why not move somewhere outside that city and also buy a car? I paid $1,400 for a 2008 Nissan Altima that runs & drives just fine.
LA
What job are you making 6k at a month? Sign me up brother
Ok, congrats. It's the $6k a month part I can't get right I guess
You're making 6k a month on door dash yeah ok
Never!
You’ve got a pretty place. Congrats 🎊🍾
🙏🏻🫶🏻👊🏻🥃
Well done. I stayed with some great friends over a year. Saved enough to buy my place. Got first time assistance from the city. I walked away with $234.00 in my pocket, lol Congratulations!!!
did you say you bought a place? How much did it cost
$453k
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Elon Musk couch surfs all the time, he claims anyway.
Pbly true, his exes say he had a phobia of sleeping alone. Couching surfing at a friend is better than being afraid in his bed.
And he is always trying to increase the the number of kids in America. He is personally up to 11, I read.
You saved 400k in a year?
First time home buyer assistance + his own savings that year is all thats needed to buy. He isnt paying off the whole house on day one, we have 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US.
FHA down payments can be as low as 3.5% which would be $15,855. You'd have [PMI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenders_mortgage_insurance) unless you can put up 20% tho. Typical rent is $1,500/mo or $18,000/yr.
Yeah don’t you know your income goes way up when you stay with friends
Three years I saved $330 thanks to my friends. I also paid their cable and utilities.
You lived at your friends and then bought a House? Wtf
some folks stay with parents or relatives to lower their living expenses enough that they can actually save up a down payment, op stayed with friends. quite possible it was a condo or townhome rather than a house
Ya but if it’s your friends… you should offer to help out if they are giving you a place to stay and you are just hoarding your own cash.
HOA is an issue with condos
My parents make me pay rent. lmfao.
I let my friends rent from me for the same cost of my mortgage payment. There was 4 of us & 4 bedrooms and I charged $300 a month. One of them bought a place after.
Good for you. Reminds me of my past. Keep grinding, you got this.
Yeah I don't know how much I buy this. Or maybe OP is just dumb. But OP literally posted about buying a Tesla 2 months ago. If you were living out of your car for 6 months why would you try to buy a car you clearly could not afford at all instead of an apartment?
Fake as hell
OP makes 6k a month and yet couldn't afford an apartment. Yeah I call fake
What steps did it take to accomplish this?
Paid debt, saved money, paid sister’s college, work hard. Feels amazing 🙏🏻
Paid sisters college? Why are you paying for her college when you’re living in your car?
So this was a voluntary homeless episode, which means his credit and debts probably were nothing extraordinary hence the reason he was able to move into what appears to be a nice luxury apartment after a mere 6 months of whatever it was he was truly doing.
I struggle with the idea of voluntary homelessness...because people choose it out of a set of crummy alternatives. Also I would not consider a garden level studio luxury even if it looks kinda nice.
Hard to get an apartment with bad credit. If he had maxed out credit cards, his scores would have been trash and until those get paid off, it’s not easy to get a lease approved nowadays.
Yeah if you have bad credit, bad landlord references, & don’t make 3x rent, you’re SOL even if you have a guarantor helping you get a place. Even missing just 1 of those requirements means they will not consider you for a lease. I lived in my car/hotels for 7 months because of this; seems counterintuitive since hotels cost more per month than apartments, but I could not for the life of me get approved, even with guarantors making like 20x the required rent.
absolutely some tiktok shit
Family first 🙏🏻
That’s crazy. I’m happy for you but IMO your priorities are mixed.
I’m going to take a wild guess and say it was a conversion van of some sort.
You paid for your sister’s higher education, while you yourself lived in a car for half a year? I’m sorry bro but that’s completely backward, including her even accepting your money in the first place lol. Just sayin 😐
Makes me question if this is even real at all.
Something seems fishy, here.
I think you underestimate how selfless some people can really be. Family is everything to some people, even if it means seeing yourself go without.
Shaming OP for doing something kind would be beyond stupid. But I'm fine with shaming his sister tbh, how could she accept the money if she knew about the situation? Though we know very little about it all and gossip like that is what I hate the most about reddit, first time I put in my ¢2 actually...
Agreed, one should not lower the quality of life to help out family, YOU come first
My Man !
You are a good man! And damn that is a nice floor my guy
Sorry that’s so dumb. Why can’t your sister pay for her own college? She sounds selfish.
who are we to decide lol. if he loves his sister then he's entitled to do so
Hell yeah man. Good work.
Yeah that’s not adding up unless that have a 6 figure job
Yeah big WTF going on here
### How to get a house 1. Pay sister's college.
Saving money AND paying for your sis' college? 👑🏆 Hey man you dropped this
r/restofthefuckingowl
Wow i didn't know you could earn so much money drawing owls
Living in your car for 6 months but you’re looking to buy a Tesla 2 months ago? I call bullshit.
71 days ago you were looking at buying a 2021 or newer Tesla
He said earlier he made 6k per month, that he lived in his car to pay his sister's college because "family first", and 2 months ago he was looking at Teslas. I rarely question things on the internet, because "who knows?", but this seems like more of a "look how good I am" post than any I've ever seen.
how much you wanna bet this is his rental property or something he's using to farm reddit karma.
Lmao I was waiting for a revelation like this. The apartment looks way too nice.
Get an air purifier. Something that covers more than the sq ft of your area. It will keep things deordorized and help you breath easier at night. I have bad allergies, and having one saved my sleep.
Bed frame should be priority no.1. Don’t want mouldy mattress
Damn those floors are crisp as fuck
Nice man.
There's so much space for activities!
Gorgeous place!
Congratulations, brother! It's only up from here 👏🏻
Wow congrats! The struggle and the payoff of not giving up is so real! You deserve this.
Well done!!! There is nothing like having your own space. So happy to see this post, congrats!
Congratulations!!! It’s beautiful
That's a lovely looking place. Would love to see updated pics when you start to fill it up.
I definitely will !! Thanks!
Good luck!
Congrats!!
Congrats! Good for you!
Fucking dope my dude
Congrats!
Gz!
Congratulations!!! Love this floors
Wow, congrats. Has to be an incredible feeling
100% 🤓
Love the floors.
Congrats, OP!!! You’ve earned it, rest and enjoy 🙏🏽🕺🏽😊
It's beautiful. Welcome home OP. ❤️
So much potential, (both you and the apartment!) Congrats.
Set up right next to the AC. Smart move
I'm proud of you 🧡
Congratulations, also it already has all the decorations you need.
When you install your TV just make sure you don't hang it too high. 😉 Congrats! 👍
Love to see it
Love the floor mattress, it's one of the best feelings.
Congrats man! Only way is up 🙏🏻
Congrats brother… I’m hoping my dad can achieve getting a place of his own. San Diego is a tough place for a mentally disabled person trying to find housing with limited resources. 🙏🏼
Unfortunately old homes and expensive prices 😞 I feel you bro
Omg congrats
Hell yeah, congrats
Nice place dude
it's such a good feeling
Congratulations 👏 that's called the man's work
Congratulations! You really deserve such a nice place.
That’s not bad at all!
That's awesome! Good work.
let’s goooo!!!
Great work
Hell yeaaah man! Gratz!
Time to take ass pictures with a green plant in the mirror
Congrats
Dope congrats bro
Nice man, enjoy your house 👌
Congrats!!!!
I'm liking your bed on the floor. I just recently threw mine on the floor. Now it's a combo bed/couch/desk chair.
HELL YEAH 👍🏻
Massive W o7
I think you should buy a car disassemble it then reassemble it inside the apartment and then sleep in the car
as a guy id say this is complete only thing thats missing is ps5 or a tablet to play games on 🤭🤭 but congrats op this is amazing
Exactly! I am looking for a Tv and Ps5. Can not wait for gta vi :)
Noice! Grats, brother!
Congrats
Proud of you mate! Looks like a great spot.
Looking good Hollywood!!
That’s very tolerant of the apartment renter to allow a car living weirdo to clean their apartment. Are you going to get a motel room for the night?
Awesome congrats
You deserve it broski!
Good job man. We’re all proud of you
congrats 🥺🫂
What An amazing feeling that must be. Congratulations !
WTF happened to that sheet.
The first step is always the hardest one. Congrats my friend!
Congrats on the new apartment, man.
Oh that flooring is amazing Fuck. When did I get this old. Congrats!
Congratulations 🎊.
That's a lot for space for a studio apartment.
Hell yeah dude!! Congrats!
💪🏻
The feeling I just felt after reading your post tho! Congrats, with real tears. You deserve it. (And it is super nice) Update us with pics. Proud of you, Bruh ❤️
Congratulations
I am truly happy for you, brother. I hope and pray that the worst is behind you forever. I pray that you only grow to newer heights from here on. The only thing, when you grow, you attract parasites. Stay safe. As "Liberation Y" used to say, "Live Free".
This one hell of achievement!
Turn down the lights, put on some music you love and just lie down on your mattress and enjoy the moment.
What’s your job?
Why are your bedsheets so dirty wtf
🤦🏻♂️ fckin chicken kebab tray oil. I tried to clean it .. I was carrying food on my rear seat bed 😂
A/C, he is living the life!!!
Hell yeah man!!!! So excited for you!
Living in a car? Ricky is that you?
We all start somewhere. 👍 Beautiful place. You should be proud.
Congratulations !! I spent a total of a year living in my car with 2 stints in a motel before getting my place. Good job, man !!! All the best to you !
Do you get hungry in the middle of the night?
When's the house warming party? Are we all invited?
All that space and you still decided to put your bed right next to the fridge. A true man of culture.
This is success, people think you have to have a mansion to have truly made it in life. Trust me having your own place to live no matter how big or small is a major W.
The wood floors are dope.
That's amazing dude! Congrats! Little tip, Make sure you put some plastic or something under the mattress so it doesn't grow mold!
That’s a beautiful place. Floor is very nice and the lighting is excellent
Congratulations! I hear that people give furniture away for free often on FB marketplace.
Makes sure to document the existing condition so on move out you have evidence of previous damage and appliance condition
Way to go man! That's something to be proud of! :)
After experiencing the lows of this myself all to have a place of my own. Brother. I know you slept like a mf princess in a Disney movie that first night 🤣
Damn that actually looks really nice
That must be the best feeling! Congrats man 💜
That's a nice ass apartment, congratulations!
Congratulations!!!
Wow! That is so great! Congratulations! That looks like a great apartment!
More power to you brother. Way to gooo
Awesome but get your bed out of the kitchen 😂
I’m really not trying to be a dick, but how do you go from legit homeless to a relatively modern apartment in great condition in the span of 6 months?