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Hotpads is great, but it won't help with the pricing. Housing is just getting expensive. A quick look shows Woonsocket prices range from $1200/month to over $2000/month for 2-bedrooms, with most of them being around the 1500-1700 range.

Hotpads was great to use. The email notifications for searches were so useful.

I haven't really done any events so I'm not sure about pricing. I usually just stop by to casually browse games

Question about that.

I've always wanted to be part of the untapped community but it seems so pricey. I fully understand they need money to run but am I missing something? Are there specials or cheap/free casual events?

Thank you for mentioning hot pads. I've been scouring craigslist and fb for an apartment and it's been a shit show of obscenely over priced places. Example, everything i was seeing in Woonsocket was 850 a bedroom. That's more than my 2 bedroom costed 4 years ago!

I should have been more specific. There isn’t a fee to look at listings on a realtor website, but if you want a realtor to spend time looking for a place for you then it will cost you.

Don’t use the cheap foam stuff—use the rigid fiberglass type

Get it fixed, then find a big mud puddle over which to park the car

Check out Rivendell books and games in Rehoboth on 44.

El Charro in north providence is great

It's all luck and then jumping on a good one as soon as you find it, just found mine on Craigslist and I came to the tour with cash in hand ready to sign cuz he already had 3 other people lined up to check it out. Good luck!

That's how I found mine (although that was back in 1997). Lived there for 8 years. Awesome place.

I’m sorry this is happening and I wish you all the best. It’s really tough - the market is incredibly volatile and by the time something is listed it seems to be rented. I know they aren’t the best but property management companies can sometimes have networks and get you in a place. If no one has had to move in the last year they may not understand so please do not give up hope and I hope you get something good 🙏

Zillow here.

It’s a crapshoot, way too expensive, I’m moving to Fall River

This is why I bought a place versus renting

It used to be pretty much exclusively graduate students in the young professionals crowd here. Like, seriously, every friend or date I had in my early 20s went to Brown to the point it was absurd.

As someone who didn't go to school here, I felt kind of left out of all the student organizations, alumni community, and social life from the local colleges. It can be a bit insular and when everyone you know is here in transition it can be kind of hard to make longterm ties.

That being said, now that I'm older it seems like a lot has changed and some young people are actually moving in. That being said, just prepare to meet a lot of college students in flux.

There shouldn't be. I've gone through realtors several times and the LL have always paid the brokers fees. Additionally, in RI you can only charge 2 months rent up front, so I don't see Broker's fees being legal for the tenant.

Yes. Also if you haven't moved in a while be aware of new market rents to avoid scams. A 1200 2 bedroom a few years ago would have been normal, but now even a 1600 2 bedroom should be analyzed carefully.

This is also super helpful from a mapping standpoint. I recall RI craigslist was just one big forum for all apartments-- I remember first moving here and wondering why the place I wanted to see was 45 minutes away!

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Nicks on broadway!

I’d been considering trying to start some sort of social group centered around table top gaming (though I do play and DM D&D 5e specifically too).

Problem is I have small kids and not a lot of flexibility to go places right now. Would there be interest in starting a Discord community and maybe events and stuff later on if we get good interest?