living alone in an apartment where rent is about 900$ total a month
l will be living in the Washington,D.C metropolitan area
its uncluding utilities, and l wont have internet and cable is a luxury l wont have at first

No. You will not have enough for utilities & groceries. Plus you need too consider gas/transportation to and from work, other misc. bills, etc. You probably can afford no more than $500 a mon. towards rent. Look into getting a cheaper place with a roommate if possible.

No. If you live in DC and you can get an apartment for $900 a month. You must be living in a ghetto. l am from the Maryland, DC, Virginia area and you can not get a decent apartment for that much. Not including utilities and other necessities. So you better get another job, or start looking for a better paying one.

thats a little bit of a tight budget you need something thats 500-700$ keep looking you want to be able to get groceries and have fun once in a while

You might want to check to see if you are eligible for rent subsidy and food stamps, electric and gas discounts because of low income.
DC is expensive. You wo not be doing much on $1400.

You may have to shop at thrift stores and eat at soup kitchens.

What is included in the rent? Even if the $900 includes heat & utilities, in my opinion, u still would not be able to afford to live on only $1400 a month. Think about it. Besides the rent, u need to be able to afford heat, electricity, telephone, cable, internet, groceries, clothes, transportation, entertainment, lunches, haircuts, medical bills .

In general, ur rent should not ever be more than 1/3 ur salary. You'd need to make almost twice what u do now in order to afford that apartment comfortably.

Whoa. That is crazy for rent. l know apartments in DC are expensive, but can not you get something cheaper? If your rent covers utilities, you can probably get by. But l think the rule is your rent should be around 25% of what you make. If you rent does not cover utilities, you will have to pay for electric, water, phone and phone at the least, and that can get expensive. Maybe you could live with roommates or something to help offset the cost of rent.

sorry but no

if you dont want utlities.

You should be more than fine on 1400 , if your rent is 900 including everything that leaves you 500 for the month you could probably put some of that aside for later, why not talk to a banking expert or a financial adviser and see what he says about setting up a budget. l think $1,400 dollars is more than enough money? Come on guys cut the guy some slack, he did say everything was included and he was gonna go without cable and internet what a sacrifice to make to save money.

l found this through a search looking up apartment prices. l have never lived on my own & l was seeing what it would take to get the bear minimum of an apartment in my area by doing some calculating with expenses & such. some of the articles l have read up on points out all the expenses we often look over like buying soap or buying toothpaste.things u will need first off when u first move in. Those small things add up quickly.

What u r saying is u r paying $900 a month (possibly more if some utilities r not available to you) & u will have $500 left over. Be sure to think about car payments (if u have one where u r in DC), food payments which r dang expensive unless u live off noodles, & think about the acts of God we can never be certain of. If u do have a car & it suddenly dies.what will u do? How will u pay for it?

Personally, I'd look for something a bit cheaper & think about sharing the apartment & cutting the price in half. Spending $450 a month & having $950 to take of expenses sounds a lot better if u give it some thought.

Hope l helped as l am too looking into getting a better paying job & soon moving out. l certainly can not afford all l need to afford right now! I'd suggest looking up tips on google on how to prepare to move out.