Waltham Apartments

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The names are enough to make your head spin. Choosing a paint color becomes even more baffling when you consider that most homes use at least three different shades — one for the siding and two or more for trim and accents such as doors, railings and window sashes.

A well-chosen selection of contrasting trim and accent colors can draw attention to architectural details and disguise design flaws. A poor selection can make a house seem flat and featureless — Or so garish that the color overwhelms the architecture. But, how do you decide?

Visit HouseColour.com for a few pointers to guide you as you choose house colors.

Roommates Don’t Have to Be Best Friends

It’s great if you like each other and have common interests. But one of the most rewarding experiences in college is getting to know many different kinds of people and learning to tolerate, even celebrate, differences. And sometimes roommates just don’t have much in common, and
forge their most important friendships outside the room.

You are Your Roommate’s Roommate.

Your roommates have their likes and dislikes, priorities and peeves — just like you. Remember that you are your roommate?s roommate, and both of you need to see the world of your room through one another?s eyes. This will help keep you from crowding your roommate out of the room with your friends, or driving them mad by playing music all night, or devoting yourself to reforming their political opinions or taste in clothes. The room belongs to both of you, and you need to find ways to live in it comfortably, together.

We all make assumptions. They may be wrong.

Things that you might have taken for granted all your life might have to be rethought or revised now that you are living with someone new. You may feel fine about sharing food, but your roommate might not. You roommate may feel that clothes left on the floor are icky, but you may not. Things that were OK at home may not be OK in your room. Talk with one another, and come to agreements or compromises together.

New Relationships Go Through Changes

Be prepared for your new college relationships to undergo changes in their first few months. You may want to go to every meal with your roommates at first, but that may change as you meet more people. You may hate your roommates at first, but that may change as you get to know one another. Your roommate may feel fine about sharing that package of cookies with you at first, but that may change as you roommate realizes it usually takes them a week to go through a package of cookies while it takes you an hour. Be open to these changes, and if you and your roommate need to make mid-semester or mid-year adjustments, talk about it.

Communication is the Key

When something that your roommate does is bothering you, be direct and respectful in bringing it up, and bring it up sooner rather than later. Try to phrase your concern in terms of specific behaviors and solutions (“Listen, there’s something I have been meaning to mention. When you get up early and I’m still sleeping, it wakes me up when you turn on the overhead light, and I wonder if you would mind using your bedside light instead.”) rather than phrasing your concern in terms of character traits or personal qualities (“You inconsiderate jerk! You are the most selfish person I have ever met!”).

“We Need to Talk”

It’s usually best to bring up a concern right in the moment that it’s bothering you — this way you can address it immediately rather than letting it continue to annoy and grow into a bigger and bigger problem. But if your concerns are serious ones, or ones that you and your roommate are likely to have strong feelings about, it’s best to bring them up at a time and place that will allow you to address them fully. Ask your roommate for a “roommate check-in” at a specific time and place when you’ll both feel comfortable.
Be Proactive

If your roommate complains to you that something bothers them in a big way, don?t dismiss it — you have a positive responsibility to try to resolve the situation reasonably. If your roommate does something that bothers you in a big way, don?t ignore it — you have a positive responsibility to try to resolve the situation reasonably.

Winter break is right around the corner and many students will be locking up their apartments and going home for a month. There are some extra precautions students can take to make sure that their apartment and belongings will be safe when they return.

You should check that your doors, windows, and locks are in good condition. You can stop your mail at the post office or ask a neighbor to pick it up so piled-up mail doesn’t signal that you’re away.

One of the problems is that people tend to have a lot of open parties. That means parties where anyone can come into your home. That’s not a good idea because that exposes your house to having people check and kind of stake out your house or your apartment.

How do you know if a house is good? Location, location, location (you knew that one was coming, didn’t you). It’s an old clich, but it still holds true. You want to move into a good neighborhood that’s either on the rise or is well-established. You’ll probably get a better deal if you find one that’s an up and comer, but they’re not always easy to spot. The best place to look for these diamonds in the rough is in the neighborhoods that are right on the edge of the more established neighborhoods. As the established neighborhood expands, you’ll suddenly find yourself in 5 years living in a prime location.

A good neighborhood:

Is close to thriving economic centers.
Has good public schools.
Has nearby shopping areas.
Good public facilities like parks and community centers.
Is an easy commute to major metro areas.
Has well-maintained homes.
Has low crime.
Has high percentage of owner-occupants.

Finding out this information requires research. For crime statistics, call the local police precinct. For school scores, call the local city council. The rest of the information you can get simply by driving around the desired area and seeing what’s out there. Talk to people in the neighborhood and see what they think. Also talk to people outside of the neighborhood and see why they don’t live there.

You will also need to find out what the resale value of the neighborhood is. That is, if you want to sell your house, how long will it take you to unload it?

Here’s how to figure it out:

Ask your real estate agent how long “for sale” houses in your desired area have been on the market.

If sales have been sluggish, find out if it’s because the market is slow or if it’s because the neighborhood has a problem.

However, if there’s been an increase in buyers from other areas coming in and multiple offers on the homes for sale, then you know you’ve hit on a good neighborhood.

Other signs of a good neighborhood are when residents remodeling their homes, when residents are buying bigger homes in the same neighborhood, and when there is a small number of renters.

Finally, ask the people who live there. Read their local community papers and shop in their stores. In other words, spy on them. Don’t worry, we won’t blow your cover.
But even if you feel you have found the perfect neighborhood, there are still a couple of more things you should check out. One is to call city hall and make sure they aren’t planning any major road construction through that area. The other is to drive to and from the neighborhood you’re interested in from different directions and at different times of the day. You may have only seen the “scenic route” and not be aware that the neighborhood is right down the road from a Hell’s Angels clubhouse. That’s not good unless you’re a member yourself.

One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census.

Waltham is home to The Sports Authority Training Center, which serves a dual role as practice facility/offices of the Boston Celtics.

Waltham is commonly referred to as Watch City because of its association with the watch industry. This is due to Waltham Watch Company, which opened its factory in Waltham in 1854. The American Waltham Watch Company, AWWCo Inc, was one of the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. It was the first company to make watches on an assembly line. It won the gold medal in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Over 40 million watches, clocks and instruments were produced by Waltham Watch Company until it closed in 1957.

Waltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738. The city is home to Gore Place, a mansion built in 1806 for former Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore; The Robert Treat Paine Estate, a residence designed in collaboration between architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1810-1905); and the Lyman Estate, a 400-acre estate established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman.

The city of Waltham is 8 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts on the Charles River.

Waltham is located near several important U.S. Interstate highways. Interstate 95 (which is also Route 128) runs through the western part of the city, Interstate 90 (also the Massachusetts Turnpike) is located just to south in Newton, Massachusetts, and Route 2 runs just to the north through Lexington, Massachusetts.

Waltham is partly surrounded by Interstate 95 (I-95), also called Route 128; hence Waltham is in the heart of Boston’s Route 128 High Technology Corridor.

The MBTA commuter rail has two stops in Waltham as part of the Fitchburg-Boston Line, one in Central Square Waltham across from the City Hall, and one near Brandeis University.

MBTA Bus Service also covers the city (see WWW.MBTA.COM for specific lines, schedules etc.)