hi guys welcome back to my channel my name is Kat if you're new and you have
made it to the second part of my video series how to find an apartment in Madrid
without going crazy okay if you haven't already seen the first part of this
video it's all about where to stay in Madrid and also some underrated places
that people like to overlook okay in this video we're going to talk about
some expectations that you should be aware of when looking for an apartment
in Madrid so you can kind of prepare yourself a little bit better about what
you're going to be getting a little disclaimer before I start this is going
to be a very broad generalization not every single department is gonna be like
this and whatever I say is just literally my opinion and it's not law
I'm pretty sure there are people that are going to disagree with what I say
just like Jaime does on every single one of my videos but that is false is
the beautiful thing about living abroad okay so let's just get into the video
the first expectation is the budget the budget is very important in Madrid the
financial experts saying that when you are paying for rent or mortgage you
should try to stay within one third of your overall income so if you're coming
to Madrid as likely are one third of $1,000 is 350 euros 350 euros in Madrid
Center isn't gonna get you diddly squat okay you need to be flexible with your
budget or you to be flexible with your location that you're willing to go a
little bit further out of the most popular areas most auxiliares
that I know pay between 400 to 500 euros a month and get apply it is decent room
most people on top of the $1,000 stipend that they do private lessons most
private lessons you can charge fifteen to twenty two dollars an hour so you can
afford to go a little bit above this 350 budget and I also recommend that you
know you go above 350 I was saying an apartment in the middle of watching this
beautiful apartment for 350 euros I didn't have a door I didn't have a
closet and I didn't have a window okay so is it really a room not really but if
you want to be in the perfect location in a beautiful apartment
that is what 350 is gonna get you if we're lucky and they can find apartments
for cheaper in good locations but it's not the most common thing we have really
good Spanish or you know somebody okay the second thing expectation I want to
talk about is if you're coming from an english-speaking country unless you're a
little bit away from your most apartments in Madrid are a little bit on
the smaller side compared to what maybe we're used to back home but that doesn't
mean you're not gonna find a beautiful apartment in a great location okay my
third expectations are is most part meant to not have
they did not have a dishwasher and most of the washing machines are in the
kitchen as well as some apartments do not have living rooms many investors
especially in high-traffic areas buy apartments that are quite big and
they split the apartment into seven to ten rooms taking out the living room so
all you have access to is your bedroom the kitchen in the bathroom these cases
you can pay a little bit less usually from 400 to 600 for these types of
places but you'll probably be the perfect location and you'll probably
have a pretty modern beautiful apartment as well but you'll also have ten other
roommates it probably just two bathrooms my fourth expectation I want to talk
about our terraces everybody wants a beautiful Spanish terrace I
completely understand I have a lovely one outside the center
Madrid and it's literally just so lovely to have but you do have to
realize that if your budget is on the lower side as an auxiliar it's not
likely you're gonna get a beautiful terrace connected to your bedroom
unless you're willing to pay more for it if this is one of your deal-breakers I
do want to mention the majority of time that you're coming to Madrid is from
October to June most of the time you're not really gonna be enjoying the
terrace cuz it's gonna be winter you have like two months to a few months to
enjoy the terrace is it really worth paying a high premium for a terrace that
you're not gonna use that off my next expectation I want to cover is your
deal-breaker list I mentioned in my other video about how you should be
making a list about your must must must have on your list and you need to cut
that in the third for me in Madrid since it's such a hot city and it's very
difficult to get an apartment I recommend that really is the most
important thing on your list should be metro proximity the location and the
price the other parts of it are not those other things just become wants
instead of needs and the reality is if your only
going to be in Madrid for one year as a study abroad or exchange or as an auxiliar
you're probably gonna be in your apartment 30 to 40 percent of the time
in 60 and 70 percent of time out exploring getting to know people
learning traveling doing all these wonderful things that you do a study
abroad the other things like oh it's ugly furniture are not that important
and also you could buy something like it's your little furniture you know to
stick somewhere IKEA is very near to the city center my sixth expectation are
Spanish roommates okay if you're coming to Madrid it and you are anything like
me you're probably coming super-excited you want to meet Spanish people you want
to speak a lot of Spanish you're gonna be best friends with your new Spanish
roommate you're gonna be the best of pals this is just not the reality at all at all
by seeing this does not mean you're not gonna have a great Spanish for me that
you guys become besties but from my experience and also looking on
the auxiliar page of other people with Spanish roommates that's just not the
reality that you're gonna have you'll have to think about why is it gonna be
like that it's not gonna be like that because they already have their friends
there they have their like you're coming here new excited you want to explore you
what a tour for them this is their home this is everything that to me is so
exciting for you is been there done not seen that my entire life most people are
not that super excited to introduce you to all their friends and in my most
cases I've had, most time you're not speaking to them in spend that often hi
hola que tal? and you go to your room or they go to their room it's not this such
a great Oh our best pals type of experience that you're probably hoping I
hope I'm not turned down all your hopes and dreams but most of the time spanish
roommates there life continues whether you're there or not I'm sure also you're
not the first corner they've met and most people are not that excited to
have a friend just for six to seven months before you leave back to your
home country the most the Spanish people are not gonna meet you and saying oh
great a Florida and my house like let me introduce you to all my spanish friends
let me help you with your Spanish let me just teach you everything about Spain
and your let's just be the best of friends usually that's just not what's
gonna happen even though we would all hope wish and would love for that to
happen it just usually doesn't that doesn't just say that some people don't
have great Spanish for me that they really get along with but usually if
they're not interested in learning English they usually aren't interested
to getting to know you and teaching you all about Spanish life and solving your
problems for you okay my last expectation if you don't take anything
away from this video if you say like I'm absolutely crazy you don't wanna listen
to anything else in this video but one thing that I pray I hope that you listen
is do not live with your landlady or landlord just please don't do it
its literally horrible most of the time when you live with the landlady or
landlord it's you usually have not as nice
experience as if you live with people that are
completely equal to you so it's the difference between living in someone
else's house and living in your own house where everyone is equal and
everybody is the same every time you live with a landlord and it's a better
house everything you do they're gonna take a lot more personal you know break
something something happens here there it's a lot more a lot more personal
whereas life if it's your roommate it's not as big of a deal also I feel like a
lot of landlords like to take advantage of foreigners and
speakers because they're only here for a year they can charge a higher premium
like if you speaker in Spanish that's an advantage but if you don't then you
probably are most likely gonna get taken advantage if you live with your landlord
and in my opinion it makes a lot of sense because if you're a Spanish person
and you don't speak English why would you prefer to rent out of room to an
English speaker who doesn't speak Spanish / a Spanish person there's
plenty of Spanish people looking for apartments why would they choose you for
that it's usually because they want to charge a higher premium okay that's all
I have for you guys today in my next video I'm gonna be talking about once
you actually have the apartment what to actually say and what to do so you can
be 100% prepared for when you are getting your New apartment so don't forget to smash
the like button and I will see you in the next video bye
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