Next Year's House- Problem Solving
This weeks dilemma: Housing for next year.
Since I am constantly reminded of the limited housing around SDSU, and have heard the difficulties of my fellow students in their struggles to find I place to live, I felt that I should start looking early for next year. Three of my girlfriends and I started to talk about how we were going to find a place and what we would be looking for. The group of four somehow jumped to seven, and the search became more difficult. I am sure by now, most are wondering why anyone would want to live with six other women, and how it is even possible for seven women to live under a roof without killing eachother. I am not here to provide problem solving to such perplexing issues such as that, however I will go through the problem solving that I did on my own to determine if I would want to live in the six bedroom house that we found. I will give you a little bit of background information on the house, follow it with a pros and cons list, and finish up with how my method of problem solving helped me eliminate biases and make a decision.
The house that we have found has six bedrooms (I would get my own), three bathrooms, a family room, nice size kitchen, two car garage, backyard, and patio. It is spacious with an excellent layout. The house is located 1.4 miles from school in a safe neighborhood. Its sounds great, and it is, but I was still unsure if I would want to live there for next year. My friends were all saying yes, so I had to make a Pros vs. Cons lists to sort out my thoughts and eliminate their opinions from my personal decision.
Pros
nice house
safe neighborhood
nice landlords
available parking
quiet
my own room
if we got it, our search for a house would be over
we can all live together
nice backyard
Cons
not walking distance from school
seven girls in a house (could be good or bad, only time will tell...)
our neighbors are not students, might not meet other people our age
kind or pricey
maybe there is something better out there
I decided that I would go with the house after sorting out the pros and cons in my head. It is still not a done deal, I will know for sure by Monday if the house is ours. By making out a list of the good things and the bad things I was able to see that although there were a few things I was hesitant about, overall it seemed like a good match for me. This method allowed me to eliminate the biases that were created because of my friends opinions, as well as put aside the initial emotions I felt when seeing this darling home for the first time. I feel that I have made a good decision and I will know if I have for sure if at the end of the year I have had a positive experience in this house.
Since I am constantly reminded of the limited housing around SDSU, and have heard the difficulties of my fellow students in their struggles to find I place to live, I felt that I should start looking early for next year. Three of my girlfriends and I started to talk about how we were going to find a place and what we would be looking for. The group of four somehow jumped to seven, and the search became more difficult. I am sure by now, most are wondering why anyone would want to live with six other women, and how it is even possible for seven women to live under a roof without killing eachother. I am not here to provide problem solving to such perplexing issues such as that, however I will go through the problem solving that I did on my own to determine if I would want to live in the six bedroom house that we found. I will give you a little bit of background information on the house, follow it with a pros and cons list, and finish up with how my method of problem solving helped me eliminate biases and make a decision.
The house that we have found has six bedrooms (I would get my own), three bathrooms, a family room, nice size kitchen, two car garage, backyard, and patio. It is spacious with an excellent layout. The house is located 1.4 miles from school in a safe neighborhood. Its sounds great, and it is, but I was still unsure if I would want to live there for next year. My friends were all saying yes, so I had to make a Pros vs. Cons lists to sort out my thoughts and eliminate their opinions from my personal decision.
Pros
nice house
safe neighborhood
nice landlords
available parking
quiet
my own room
if we got it, our search for a house would be over
we can all live together
nice backyard
Cons
not walking distance from school
seven girls in a house (could be good or bad, only time will tell...)
our neighbors are not students, might not meet other people our age
kind or pricey
maybe there is something better out there
I decided that I would go with the house after sorting out the pros and cons in my head. It is still not a done deal, I will know for sure by Monday if the house is ours. By making out a list of the good things and the bad things I was able to see that although there were a few things I was hesitant about, overall it seemed like a good match for me. This method allowed me to eliminate the biases that were created because of my friends opinions, as well as put aside the initial emotions I felt when seeing this darling home for the first time. I feel that I have made a good decision and I will know if I have for sure if at the end of the year I have had a positive experience in this house.
posted by Kristin Wittenberg at 2:27 PM
2 Comments:
This is a perfect example of the way this problem-solving method can be helpful. You didn't really go into the part about the "fixes" for the cons in order to see how bad the cons really were, but it did become more clear to you through the process that you were willing to go for it. I'm sure it must be a bit expensive based on your description of the place, but you also get to divide up the cost among a lot of people. I wonder what your group ended up deciding to do and how it worked out...
It seems like a good decision, pros outweigh the cons, whens the house party?
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