Living with a high travel job

>>18703811
What job did you get that you travel 5 days a week?

>>18703839
Basically a traveling repairman for a medical technologies company. If a CAT scanner owned by my company suddenly breaks down and their local techs can't fix it, then they'll fly me out to see what I can do about it.

There's usually a backlog of repair and preventative maintenance orders so I'll have somewhere to go every week. Every once in a while I'll need to stay on location over the weekend to get the machine working again faster, and every once in a while there won't be much for me to do so I'll stay home a week. For the most part though I'm told it will be 75% travel.

My suggestion, if possible, would be to just live with your parents/family over the weekend.

This is the best option as far as not wasting money on a home you won't be using 5 or so days a week.

I think it would be hard to find people willing to rent out a room to you since you wouldn't want to pay much because you're not even going to be there most days of the week. If they have an available room they're looking to rent, they're going to want to get the full value out of it such as by having someone live in it every day of the week, so you won't be saving much over getting an apartment on your own.

Do you have a car? What do you plan on doing with it while you fly out to work?

>>18703942
I do not have a car and don't plan on getting one. I currently live 25 minutes by bus from a major US airport (probably a part of the reason why the hired me in the first place). Unfortunately my relationship with my family is strained and I'm friendless so trying to buddy up with anyone probably isn't going to happen.

I'm willing to pay full rent for the room itself because I understand that no matter where I am personally I'm still "occupying" the room. I'd mostly just view it as a storage unit. The thing I'd be looking to haggle on would be utilities. I mean if I'm only using water and electricity two days a week, I think it would only be fair to pay a smaller amount on those bills.

>>18703987
Yeah, if you only expect to haggle down the utility bills, that shouldn't be much of an issue. I know that my mother's employer also has several rent houses they rent out to people, but their main business uses two buildings and one room of a rent house, so the tenants of that rent house only pay 75% of the utilities.

If you don't have anyone you can stay with, and you don't want to get a car, the only other thing I can suggest is to look for hostels in your area. Depending on the cost of rent versus the cost of a hostel for 3 nights a week, 4-5 weeks a month, you could save money even if you also rent out a storage unit for the things you don't want to take with you. Although, there's the issue with transportation since you don't have a car, that might not be feasible, either.