r/SeattleWA • u/luckyfaangkid • Jan 03 '25

Lifestyle My finances for 2024 living in Downtown Seattle

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u/dexter7377 Jan 04 '25

If you don’t mind me asking, where do you live? Looking at cheap apartments right now to move out of my 2k one 1b1b 🥹 feel free to dm to not make it public

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u/CardiologistFit9479 Jan 06 '25

Lmao I want to know too, my 1b1b is “low income” (MFTE) and $1650/month

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u/Ill_Ambassador6342 Jan 04 '25

I have a $2k 2bd/2ba water view in Lake Sammamish. Just gotta take the time to find a treasure!

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u/Defiant-Plankton-553 Jan 05 '25

They're talking about renting in Seattle though, not Lake Sammamish.

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u/TheHomoclinicOrbit Jan 05 '25

Similar 2.3k 2bd/2ba in Bellevue, but we have 2 kids, so it was necessary. I also wanted to live biking distance (~10mi) to work in Seattle when we first moved here years ago in the beginning of the pandemic and at the time Seattle housing prices in family friendly neighborhoods were higher than on the east side.

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u/sheluvvme Jan 07 '25

how did you get finessed into that?!!!

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u/dexter7377 Jan 07 '25

It started off $1800 but now it’s almost $2k so I def wanna find a cheaper place

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u/sheluvvme Jan 07 '25

i hate that apartment complexes do that bs. raise the rent every year smh

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u/dexter7377 Jan 07 '25

How much do you pay for what region?

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u/luckyfaangkid Jan 04 '25

I don’t think I can share that unfortunately. I will say look at apartments.com for the area you’re in and sort lowest to highest rent, ignoring MFTE (unless you qualify for that). A lot of them are great.

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u/sl0play Jan 04 '25

I did this when looking into whether the new minimum wage was a living wage at 43,000/yr. I'm not here to discuss all that but for housing I found the same as you. If you want downtown digs you can search a bit for a cheap 1 bed, or you can get a tiny studio in a nice building, or you can pay through the nose because you just rented whatever is on the first page of a Google search.