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Mods: Can I please get permission to double-post this, and also put it in the NH state section as well as here?
Ok, this is going to be somewhat long and rambling, but I will try to make it as concise as possible. For those of you not in NH, most of this long post will probably be uninteresting to you, so you can save yourself some time and effort by only reading this paragraph and the final 2 paragraphs. I'll start with a quick overview of the back story of my situation. As posted elsewhere here on RPF a while back, no doc home equity loans don't seem to exist anymore, and because of that, the city that I live in pulled ED on my "blighted" house, and I have gone from having 100% equity to starting completely over with nothing. The last 6 months have found me packing everything and getting it all into storage, and crashing at a friend's place until I could find a place to rent month to month that didn't want socialist security numbers and allowed me to keep my dog. I have been in the process of trying to sort out what I am keeping and what I'm selling, trying to reduce my existence from a 2600 sf house full of stuff to what will fit into my vehicle plus a uhaul trailer and preparing to move to NH before the weather turns and there is still plenty of time to campaign for Ron Paul up there. Today I got the word that the house I now rent a room in has been sold, and everyone is thus being evicted at the beginning of the next month (beginning of Oct) so it can be torn down and replaced by a gas station. Therefore my timetable now has a much tighter deadline which will arrive all too quickly, and the next few weeks will find me frantically listing most of my stuff on ebay and craigslist in an attempt to both pare my existence down to what I am able to practically move, and be able to afford to do so. Since I am roughly 10-12 hours away from NH at the present time, the most practical and realistic means of pulling off this move is to make an appeal here to anyone who can possibly help in finding and arranging a place to live. Here's what I need:
The biggest thing that will help is to have a place to live already set up in advance. My first requirement is that it be in Manchester. My reasoning here is that since it is the biggest city in NH, it has the most extensive public transportation system, and would also offer the greatest number of employment opportunities. My girl dosen't drive, my vehicle registration is only good until April, and there is no way in hell my vehicle would pass the required inspection so I will be forced to sell it by then (for what it would cost to make it pass an inspection, I'd be money ahead buying something else that would already pass). I doubt that I'll be able to afford to buy another vehicle before April, and depending on how quickly I can find work there, I might have to end up selling it just to pay rent through the winter if circumstances become dire. From what I can tell online, Manchester's bus system seems to cover pretty much the entire city but does not go outside of the city limits. So the first requirement is that it needs to be in Manchester and accessible to at least one bus route (walking distance to a grocery store would be a great bonus, but not necessary).
The next requirement is that I'm able to deal directly with a property owner, not some management agency. I refuse to give out socialist security numbers to rent a place. I would much prefer to rent by the month or even by the week but would sign a longer lease if necessary, I would prefer to have the option to move to a better place / cheaper place / more desirable location etc and not be hindered by a long term lease. This is simply because I'm flying blind here, and won't know much about what conditions on the ground are like until I get there. If I can find a place where I can keep my dog, that would be ideal, but I don't expect to be able to do so, as it seems just as hard these days to find rentals where dogs are allowed as it does to find places that respect privacy enough not to demand socialist security numbers.
The last requirement is that I can actually afford to live there. I'm not a yuppie by any means, and want to be able to buy another house with cash as quickly as I can, so I need to find the cheapest place possible. From looking around on craigslist, rooms seem to be available for around $500 and efficiency apartments seem to start around $600. I would consider either, depending on the situation, location, laid-backness of landlord / room mates (what I am and am not allowed to do in the space that I'm paying for, the fewer rules I am subjected to, the better), cost / desirability of the living space, etc - yes, this is subjective, but this is exactly where I need the help of someone who is already there and can check things out for me and make a judgement call. And oh yes, I almost forgot: unless the place is available on a monthly or weekly basis, there can't be any silly rules about number of occupants vs bedrooms, or anything like that - right now it is just myself and my girl, but we are poly, and sooner or later my relationship will expand again beyond the two of us (hopefully sooner - heh). I would much prefer to only have one name on a lease, if possible - this is also something that is much easier to negotiate when dealing directly with a property owner rather than some management agency. Having utilities included would be a major plus (but is not necessary), since not having to shell out for utility company deposits upfront would make the move much easier. Of course desirable things like off-street parking and free laundry would be nice to have, but little perks like that are completely trivial compared to the concerns expressed above.
The ideal situation would be to find a RPF member here who either has a place available, or knows someone who does and is willing to cut a deal and help me get started. Even on a temporary basis until I can find a place myself once I'm actually up there, a spare room and some storage space, a basement, whatever. Next best thing would be someone who could scout a suitable place out for me (probably on short notice, as I'm sure that cheap places that don't demand socialist security numbers get snapped up very quickly), who is trustworthy and vetted here on RPF enough to handle me sending them cash (in advance, so that they can check a place out and put a security deposit in someone's hand immediately on the spot before someone else rents the place) for a security deposit and faxing a lease back and forth if necessary. Last resort would be to first move everything into storage and pitch a tent in someone's backyard, all I would need is to be able to cook and shower until I could find a place myself, but that could potentially take some time (it actually took several months to find a room around here that I could have my dog, didn't demand socialist security numbers, and didn't have a year long lease) and my worry here would be the weather turning cold before I found a place.
Although I (and my girl) will be setting myself up to make money on my own, if anyone could possibly offer employment in Manchester that is accessible from the bus lines, either on a temporary or long term basis, I would certainly love to hear from you as well. I don't want to post any sort of personal info here in public as far as various skills and positions held, but if anyone has or knows of something (anything! lots of varied experience and skills) available, having employment (or even some solid leads) already waiting for one or both of us would be absolutely fantastic and make things much easier. I'm already having to sell off most of my collection of antique radios to finance moving, and I'd really hate to have to sell it all off, and I really don't want to be forced to part with my musical instruments, antique hi-fi gear, and vehicle just to pay rent through the winter if I can help it.
Doing this will all be a huge risk for me. I've already lost a house that was completely paid for, now I'm about to sell off a bunch of my antiques that I've treasured and cherished for the majority of my life, in order to gamble that I won't lose the remainder of everything else I've worked for in my life and literally end up in the streets. This is because I want to be able to move to NH in time to campaign and vote for Ron Paul there (not to mention it's the state with the fewest amount of stupid and intrusive laws, by far - this is not a temporary move, I'm staying there). I've planned to do all of this anyways, ever since the rug got ripped out from underneath me by ED, and thought that I would have until at least the beginning of December to get there (haven't yet checked to see when the voter registration deadline is there, I'm assuming I'm still safe in that regard - I'd sure hate to be in NH, and be stuck voting by absentee ballot in a late primary state!). Now that my timetable has shortened considerably due to unforeseen circumstances, there is a huge sense of urgency, with an actual deadline coming up extremely quickly for what I have to do. With the economy in poor shape, I really don't know how well I'll do with regards to auctioning off my antiques. I'm planning to just pare things down to where I can get everything into my vehicle plus a uhaul trailer, hope that that will give me enough money to get there and rent a place, and hope that I can get an income going quickly enough to not have to sell anything else to pay the rent. Half of my challenge is to sell stuff off quickly enough that I have enough money to get there and rent a place, and not have to lose money by leaving anything behind. The other half of my challenge is to actually have a place to move into when I get there, and trying to arrange this in advance from 10-12 hours away. This is where you, the RPF members in the Manchester area, come in. All I need as a minimum is someone willing to take the time to help me out in arranging a place to live. I shouldn't need and am not asking for any sort of financial help, but given my extremely limited timetable for selling stuff off, if anyone out there wants to make a chipin on my behalf, or work out some sort of deal (make me an offer, I'll trade work for rent, or whatever), I certainly wouldn't refuse, and have been vetted here in that regard already.
I promise that anyone's efforts to help me line up a place in advance will more than pay off, in the sense that you will be helping to get an excellent activist to NH to campaign for Ron Paul in these last few crucial months before the primary. By chance and circumstance, I was in IA in 2007: I put up signs all over town. I talked to anyone and everyone who would listen. I was one of the most active members of the local meetup group. I was active in the county GOP. I made supporter speeches at county GOP meetings, public caucus training sessions, and at the caucus itself. I canvased businesses to find places to place campaign literature and voter registration forms. I canvassed residential neighborhoods and did lit drops. I passed out about 10,000 slimjims in public places. I got people to register to vote for the first time, and made sure they got to the caucus and voted for Ron Paul. Instead of sitting here in a late primary state that I want to get the hell out of asap anyways, I would much rather be doing this all over again in NH where these efforts will make a real difference. Virtually every moment that I will not be eating, sleeping, or attempting to make money, I will be campaigning for Ron Paul, just as I did in IA 4 years ago. Your efforts to help me get to NH will be more than worth the campaign's while. If anyone can help at all, that would be extremely appreciated! TIA!
Ok, this is going to be somewhat long and rambling, but I will try to make it as concise as possible. For those of you not in NH, most of this long post will probably be uninteresting to you, so you can save yourself some time and effort by only reading this paragraph and the final 2 paragraphs. I'll start with a quick overview of the back story of my situation. As posted elsewhere here on RPF a while back, no doc home equity loans don't seem to exist anymore, and because of that, the city that I live in pulled ED on my "blighted" house, and I have gone from having 100% equity to starting completely over with nothing. The last 6 months have found me packing everything and getting it all into storage, and crashing at a friend's place until I could find a place to rent month to month that didn't want socialist security numbers and allowed me to keep my dog. I have been in the process of trying to sort out what I am keeping and what I'm selling, trying to reduce my existence from a 2600 sf house full of stuff to what will fit into my vehicle plus a uhaul trailer and preparing to move to NH before the weather turns and there is still plenty of time to campaign for Ron Paul up there. Today I got the word that the house I now rent a room in has been sold, and everyone is thus being evicted at the beginning of the next month (beginning of Oct) so it can be torn down and replaced by a gas station. Therefore my timetable now has a much tighter deadline which will arrive all too quickly, and the next few weeks will find me frantically listing most of my stuff on ebay and craigslist in an attempt to both pare my existence down to what I am able to practically move, and be able to afford to do so. Since I am roughly 10-12 hours away from NH at the present time, the most practical and realistic means of pulling off this move is to make an appeal here to anyone who can possibly help in finding and arranging a place to live. Here's what I need:
The biggest thing that will help is to have a place to live already set up in advance. My first requirement is that it be in Manchester. My reasoning here is that since it is the biggest city in NH, it has the most extensive public transportation system, and would also offer the greatest number of employment opportunities. My girl dosen't drive, my vehicle registration is only good until April, and there is no way in hell my vehicle would pass the required inspection so I will be forced to sell it by then (for what it would cost to make it pass an inspection, I'd be money ahead buying something else that would already pass). I doubt that I'll be able to afford to buy another vehicle before April, and depending on how quickly I can find work there, I might have to end up selling it just to pay rent through the winter if circumstances become dire. From what I can tell online, Manchester's bus system seems to cover pretty much the entire city but does not go outside of the city limits. So the first requirement is that it needs to be in Manchester and accessible to at least one bus route (walking distance to a grocery store would be a great bonus, but not necessary).
The next requirement is that I'm able to deal directly with a property owner, not some management agency. I refuse to give out socialist security numbers to rent a place. I would much prefer to rent by the month or even by the week but would sign a longer lease if necessary, I would prefer to have the option to move to a better place / cheaper place / more desirable location etc and not be hindered by a long term lease. This is simply because I'm flying blind here, and won't know much about what conditions on the ground are like until I get there. If I can find a place where I can keep my dog, that would be ideal, but I don't expect to be able to do so, as it seems just as hard these days to find rentals where dogs are allowed as it does to find places that respect privacy enough not to demand socialist security numbers.
The last requirement is that I can actually afford to live there. I'm not a yuppie by any means, and want to be able to buy another house with cash as quickly as I can, so I need to find the cheapest place possible. From looking around on craigslist, rooms seem to be available for around $500 and efficiency apartments seem to start around $600. I would consider either, depending on the situation, location, laid-backness of landlord / room mates (what I am and am not allowed to do in the space that I'm paying for, the fewer rules I am subjected to, the better), cost / desirability of the living space, etc - yes, this is subjective, but this is exactly where I need the help of someone who is already there and can check things out for me and make a judgement call. And oh yes, I almost forgot: unless the place is available on a monthly or weekly basis, there can't be any silly rules about number of occupants vs bedrooms, or anything like that - right now it is just myself and my girl, but we are poly, and sooner or later my relationship will expand again beyond the two of us (hopefully sooner - heh). I would much prefer to only have one name on a lease, if possible - this is also something that is much easier to negotiate when dealing directly with a property owner rather than some management agency. Having utilities included would be a major plus (but is not necessary), since not having to shell out for utility company deposits upfront would make the move much easier. Of course desirable things like off-street parking and free laundry would be nice to have, but little perks like that are completely trivial compared to the concerns expressed above.
The ideal situation would be to find a RPF member here who either has a place available, or knows someone who does and is willing to cut a deal and help me get started. Even on a temporary basis until I can find a place myself once I'm actually up there, a spare room and some storage space, a basement, whatever. Next best thing would be someone who could scout a suitable place out for me (probably on short notice, as I'm sure that cheap places that don't demand socialist security numbers get snapped up very quickly), who is trustworthy and vetted here on RPF enough to handle me sending them cash (in advance, so that they can check a place out and put a security deposit in someone's hand immediately on the spot before someone else rents the place) for a security deposit and faxing a lease back and forth if necessary. Last resort would be to first move everything into storage and pitch a tent in someone's backyard, all I would need is to be able to cook and shower until I could find a place myself, but that could potentially take some time (it actually took several months to find a room around here that I could have my dog, didn't demand socialist security numbers, and didn't have a year long lease) and my worry here would be the weather turning cold before I found a place.
Although I (and my girl) will be setting myself up to make money on my own, if anyone could possibly offer employment in Manchester that is accessible from the bus lines, either on a temporary or long term basis, I would certainly love to hear from you as well. I don't want to post any sort of personal info here in public as far as various skills and positions held, but if anyone has or knows of something (anything! lots of varied experience and skills) available, having employment (or even some solid leads) already waiting for one or both of us would be absolutely fantastic and make things much easier. I'm already having to sell off most of my collection of antique radios to finance moving, and I'd really hate to have to sell it all off, and I really don't want to be forced to part with my musical instruments, antique hi-fi gear, and vehicle just to pay rent through the winter if I can help it.
Doing this will all be a huge risk for me. I've already lost a house that was completely paid for, now I'm about to sell off a bunch of my antiques that I've treasured and cherished for the majority of my life, in order to gamble that I won't lose the remainder of everything else I've worked for in my life and literally end up in the streets. This is because I want to be able to move to NH in time to campaign and vote for Ron Paul there (not to mention it's the state with the fewest amount of stupid and intrusive laws, by far - this is not a temporary move, I'm staying there). I've planned to do all of this anyways, ever since the rug got ripped out from underneath me by ED, and thought that I would have until at least the beginning of December to get there (haven't yet checked to see when the voter registration deadline is there, I'm assuming I'm still safe in that regard - I'd sure hate to be in NH, and be stuck voting by absentee ballot in a late primary state!). Now that my timetable has shortened considerably due to unforeseen circumstances, there is a huge sense of urgency, with an actual deadline coming up extremely quickly for what I have to do. With the economy in poor shape, I really don't know how well I'll do with regards to auctioning off my antiques. I'm planning to just pare things down to where I can get everything into my vehicle plus a uhaul trailer, hope that that will give me enough money to get there and rent a place, and hope that I can get an income going quickly enough to not have to sell anything else to pay the rent. Half of my challenge is to sell stuff off quickly enough that I have enough money to get there and rent a place, and not have to lose money by leaving anything behind. The other half of my challenge is to actually have a place to move into when I get there, and trying to arrange this in advance from 10-12 hours away. This is where you, the RPF members in the Manchester area, come in. All I need as a minimum is someone willing to take the time to help me out in arranging a place to live. I shouldn't need and am not asking for any sort of financial help, but given my extremely limited timetable for selling stuff off, if anyone out there wants to make a chipin on my behalf, or work out some sort of deal (make me an offer, I'll trade work for rent, or whatever), I certainly wouldn't refuse, and have been vetted here in that regard already.
I promise that anyone's efforts to help me line up a place in advance will more than pay off, in the sense that you will be helping to get an excellent activist to NH to campaign for Ron Paul in these last few crucial months before the primary. By chance and circumstance, I was in IA in 2007: I put up signs all over town. I talked to anyone and everyone who would listen. I was one of the most active members of the local meetup group. I was active in the county GOP. I made supporter speeches at county GOP meetings, public caucus training sessions, and at the caucus itself. I canvased businesses to find places to place campaign literature and voter registration forms. I canvassed residential neighborhoods and did lit drops. I passed out about 10,000 slimjims in public places. I got people to register to vote for the first time, and made sure they got to the caucus and voted for Ron Paul. Instead of sitting here in a late primary state that I want to get the hell out of asap anyways, I would much rather be doing this all over again in NH where these efforts will make a real difference. Virtually every moment that I will not be eating, sleeping, or attempting to make money, I will be campaigning for Ron Paul, just as I did in IA 4 years ago. Your efforts to help me get to NH will be more than worth the campaign's while. If anyone can help at all, that would be extremely appreciated! TIA!
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But that only happens if you are in the right area - Like Texarkana, AR/TX - All loads over 12' are escorted around the city. . Texarkana has the MAIN interstate running into Texas from the Northeast, I-30. In New Hampshire the only place like that would be the small stretch of I-95. But not many loads are moving through there like in Texarkana.
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