How much money do you need to start a life in las vegas ?

Im want to move from los angeles to las vegas . I need to rent a 1 bedroom apartment, furnish it completely, turn on utilities cable, and telephone right away, register my car with the dmv,


and lastly find a job as soon as possible making at least $15 per hour in sales, customer service or collections. How much money should i have saved until I get on my feet and running...

How much money do you need to start a life in las vegas ?
4,000
Reply:Rents are not cheap here due to the housing market so you will need first, last, and security, and that can total $3K. One bedroom apartments are a minimum of 900 in areas where you would want to live.





For utilities, cable, telephone you will gain need at least $50 deposit or more.





DMV is very expensive depending on the age of your car and you must have proof of insurance. You have 30 days from when you move to NV to change your license and tags. Example would be $35 for license, $400 for 2005 car, and insurance well depends on whether you go for liability only or more. Insurance is not cheap.





As for the job, you need to have one before you come if you can because too many come, find no job, and end up living on the street. I cannot advise you but suggest you try www.lasvegasnow.com. That will also give you links to apartments and more.





The cost of living is similar to LA and unfortunately so is now the crime rate and traffic due to all the CA people here.
Reply:you just need one quarter to put in the slots and then you use the force to stop it on the jack pot. technically its not cheating, but the casinos kicked me out anyway... greedy jewish bastards
Reply:a lot.(if ya love do do some sweet sweet SWEET gambling.)
Reply:if you have a nice body you could probably go there with nothing.
Reply:I say $2000
Reply:I moved to Las Vegas the summer of 2007. So I don't really recommend moving in the summer because it gets really hot. Anyways I moved there with only $3,000 which was kind of low, but I lived on a budget. First of all Vegas has jobs but you need to find one and it take time. Try to apply and look for a job before you move. I don't know if you have a degree or anything, but $15/hr might be hard, but possible if you have experiences. A lot of jobs I see out here are kind of lower then that. Apartments are in a wide range of prices. I lived in a 1 bedroom and 1.5 bath apartments for $525/month free water/garbage. But I live 15min away from the strip and it wasn't a good apartment it was called the Mark Twain Apartments. People said it wasn't a good area, but I live there and nothing happened if you cheap you might want to take a look. I can recommend however the Hampton Apartment on Vegas Valley it nice and clean it is $650/month for a 1 bedroom/1 bath. I think it nice and clean and has fireplace and balcony and other stuff. The only utilities you pay are electric.





To furnish it cost me about $300 because I waited after I got a job to buy stuff. I bought only the things I needed not wanted. So a box was my table. I got a bed for $150 and only bough the basic. Try buying off craiglist and goodwill.





Cable is from Cox cable so you can just go to there website.





Electric is from Nevada Power. In the summer expect you’re electric to be 100 or so depend how much AC you used I barely turn on AC on in the summer and my bill was $85. During the fall it was around 55-70.





The DMV at Vegas suck there only like 4 of them. The line is very long get there a half hour before it open. I got my plates for $450 and my license for 50 I think.





I would play it safe and save more then $3,000. I started getting interview when I moved there but a lot of the company does like 3 step interview before hiring took a month to get a job and I was lucky. I also do HR and can tell you since I been hire I interview a lot of people and can say it does take time. A lot of recent college graduate come in all the time and they tell me they been looking for about 3 month on average.





Anyways good luck

ginkgo