Quote: (09-05-2013 01:39 PM)defguy Wrote:
We did it in my hometown. Chasing pussy isnt a good enough reason to select a roomate. You want someone along the same lifestyle and values. The guy may be a good wingman but if shit hits the fan will he pay rent or just bail? But fun times can be had if you're into womanizing and you find a roomate who is a womanizer.... Then again same thing could be said rooming in a 4 bedroom house with 3 frat guys...
I was thinking of trying a similar thing in the LA area with other creatives ( who are almost always snatch-hounds anyway.)
I write music, scripts, and shoot microbudget film and video. (That means arty shit with budgets in the hundreds and very low thousands)
There is a vast jump in enthusiasm from actresses and crew when you (1) can pay them ANYTHING in LA. and (2) are trying to so something that is actually a creative story and not dumb zombie, slasher, porn, or commercial crap.
Most of them are working day jobs and the only creative opportunities open to them are working for free. Even $35 a day (calling it expenses) is appreciated, $50 is deemed decent, and $100 per day is very, very hard to get AT ALL-- and even then it's for something boring like a commercial or a stupid zombie movie.
I knew actresses, one with about a with 130 IQ, that had theatre degrees--
she had gone to England to study Shakespeare, and was going to auditions to TRY to get a $100 per day part to be "the friend that gets killed first" as she put it, in a zombie movie. It took her YEARS to get in a network TV show in a non-speaking part as a witness who is grabbed fleeing. That was her only $700 payday that I know of. By that time she was already 26 and her looks were fading from a Hollywood viewpoint!! It's so brutal if you have ANY Organizational talent they are very glad to get help.
I'm over 50 but can pass for 40's so chicks would be a fringe benefit not the center of my life-- but it would be quite good social proof for all to present the house as a "Production Company" or the like.
There are smoking women arriving every day to LA who desperately want to be "inside" something instead of only a waitress. If you could theoretically strike out with every one in Hollywood you could still start over the next day, but there is no bottom to the pool of women there.
Getting your own apartment in any decent area is quite expensive, and it's lonely being a nobody for years writing scripts or playing music.
The thing with me is I absolutely can not deal with tobacco smokers on a day-to-day living-with basis, so I would only do it with other anti-smokers. I would only live in a no-smoking house with other non-smokers. I have dealt with smokers "who will smoke outside" before and it's always bullshit-- they don't want to be alone and end up standing near an open door and stinking up the place.
I'm still stacking money right now, but I already have an independent income from investments that is enough for rent. Looking to move in Fall '14.