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UNIT ONE RENTING YOUR HOUSING

Looking for Housing

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Everyone needs a place to live. Finding the right place is important. It can

make your life easier. It can help you save money. It can make your life more

pleasant and enjoyable.

When you choose your housing, you can do one of two things.

~ You can rent a place to live.

~ You can buy your own home.

The decision is an important one for you and your family. You should take

the time and effort to make a good choice. This book will help you learn to

make good dccisions about your housing.

When you are looking for housing, there are many things you should think

about. Somc of those things arc basic whether you rent or whether you buy.

In this lesson you will think about these questions.

~ Where should you live?

~ How do you start looking?

Important Words Used in This Lesson

buy When you buy something, you own it. You recreation areas Recreation is play or

pay money so that something will belong to you. amusement. Hiking or reading are qmet kinds

marital status Marital means having to do with of recreation. A recreation area is a place set

marriage. Status is condition. So marital status aside where people can enjoy themselves. Parks

is your marriage condition. Are you married? and swimming pools are recreation areas.

Are you single? Are you separated or rent Rent is the money you pay for the place you

divorced? Are you a widow or a widower? live in. You pay rent if the place is owned by

What is your marital status? another person. Rent is a fixed expense. You

public transportation Public is something that pay the same amount at regular times. You

belongs to the people or that serves all the usually pay rent once a month.

people. Public transportation is the business of

carrying people from one p|ace to another.

Rai|roads and buses are kinds of public

transportation.