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What kind of agencies are you talking about. Living alone is not an option, the rent for the 2Bed/2Bath apartment is too high for me to handle myself.

I am an IT professional living in an apt opp the beachwood mall. My roommate will be vacating soon and I am looking for a new roommate. What is the best way to look for roommates in Cleveland? Any ideas?

This is the other part that causes me to overspeed. Lets say I am doing 25 mph on 2nd gear at 2500 RPM. I push the car to 3000 RPM to shift gears to 3rd gear. By the time I have changed gear the car is already at 35 mph +. If I change gears at around 2500 RPM, the car jerks. Same for 3rd to 4th gear. I can be at 50 mph on 3rd gear and still be around 3000 RPM. So when the speed limit changes from 35 mph to 45 mph, my mind is always thinking I should change to 4th gear but for the instance that i change gears to 4th gear, I am past 50 mph and then I have to brake to slow down. This is not even in the Sports mode of the car. In that mode, its got even more responsiveness. This is because you are shifting too soon. The car is not up to the proper speed before you are shifting. You will not hurt the car by runnign the RPMs up higher before shifting, it's actually a little better for your gas mileage.

Thats true, you can press the clutch, coast and then change gears. But if you dont give it gas and leave the clutch, the car jerks. For me from first to second and second to third, it jerks a lot. So I give it gas and take the RPM to 3000 at the same time as I leave the clutch. This way there is no jerk. I definitely need a radar detector. You do NOT press the gas when shifting - the car is in neutral and the gas does absolutely nothing (except be wasted). It is a simultaneous motion - lift right foot while depressing left foot (clutch) and shift. The car continues to move. While driving on an empty street, lift your foot off the gas and put the clutch in but do nothing else. The car continues to coast and will only slow down a little bit unless you are on an incline. It is during the coast that you change gears. You don't need to continually power the car through the shifting - it's causing your speed problems and probably adding to your gas consumption quite a bit, unnecessarily.

I am usually on 2nd gear even at 25 mph, and then when I change to 3rd gear with a little gas, the car easily shoots to 40mph+. And then I brake to bring down the speed. Its poor technique, I always press gas when I change gears but I have been told I dont have to press gas. I need to work on fixing this.

RockandRoller, I think you are right. I should be glad they did not give me a ticket for not having OH drivers license. I am not going to court, going to pay the ticket, take the defensive drivers course and hope the insurance dont find out. If you folks see a red mini cooper S with white stripes driving like an old man, thats probably me :) Wow, Ohio dosen't mess around, I thought Florida was tough. It is 30 days: http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/pdf_forms/HSY-7607.pdf 30 days is standard most places. While you have driving privvys on another state's license, if you become a resident in a new state, you are expected to change all things related to your residency - your car insurance, your registration, your license/identification, just like everything else you change with a move. Admittedly like I said, a lot of people don't, but you are taking a risk. They could have cited you for being a resident here and not having gotten your OH license. If I were you, I would not fight the tickets in court and I would feel lucky they didn't ticket me for that (or other) additional offenses.

MyTwoSense, I am. And I am not a rash driver. Its just I bought this new car and its my first manual car and I have been learning it the hard way. I think the NJ license may just save me. I looked at NJ DMV and they do have a program where if you take defensive drivers course, Two points will be removed from the accumulated points you currently have on your license. Or so it says on the website. So this way because of my NJ license I can atleast knock 2 points off and hope the insurance premium is not raised too high.

What argument can I possibly use. I know I was speeding although I have to say that I was not speeding like I wanted to overtake someone. Just speeding for that fraction to change gears. Its a driving technique that I need to fix else I will keep getting such tickets. Both these tickets I got for my NJ drivers license. Does any one know if there is a link between NJ DMV and OH DMV. I am thinking of getting a new OH drivers license tomorrow. I moved here from NJ in July of last year and have not changed my license yet. Some folks here including Mayday and MyTwoSense may remember me. I moved to the Huron Sqr apts in downtown on their recommendation and then moved to the hamptons in beachwood based on their feedback too. I have to say besides these tickets Cleveland has been very kind to me. I have got my first break in life here. I have a nice apt, good job, nice car :) and overall have been able to keep myself busy doing fun stuff in Cleveland. Lots of friends warned me prior to moving here but I think am really enjoying my time here. May be I will buy a house and live here for many many years :)

Taking the traffic course adds 2 points as credit so now the driver has 2 points more before his drivers license gets suspended. But it does not lower or remove the points.

The tickets are on my NJ license. What if I go get an Ohio license, will the points carry over?

Some information I found out after talking to the DMV. Ohio does not have a program where they remove points if you take a traffic course. So taking a defensive course does not help in my case. Am screwed thats for sure :(

Thanks folks. Will do.

I dont mind paying the fine, I am more concerned about the insurance premiums getting higher. Cant I go to Traffic School and have the ticket erased?

I know its totally my fault. I am still learning to drive a manual and I tend to press the gas more than I should from second gear to third gear. I got insurance from geico in Mar and is up for renewal in Sept, will they be hiking the premium? Is there anything I can do to alleviate it?

I recently got 2 speeding tickets within a span of 2 weeks. The first one was in Wicliffe (45mph on a 25mph)and the second in Cleveland Heights (42mph on a 25mph). I have a Mini Cooper S so you can imagine that its not so easy keeping the speed down especially in the 25mph zones. I have not got any previous tickets in my 10 year driving record. Now I am concerned about my insurance policy. The tickets will add a total of 4 points to my record. My insurance with Geico runs until end of Sept and is up for renewal. What can I do to alleviate the rate hike. Also the traffic violations court system in Cleveland area is kind of wierd. When my friends got tickets in NJ and PA, they could go to court and have the fine and points reduced. But here if I have to go to court they will charge me $90.00 just for court fees and if guilty, I have to pay the fine too.

Huron Square Apts and Osborn Apts They are opp Winking Lizard and very close to the highway.

I have decided to move to the Hamptons in Beachwood. I could not find apts in Shaker Heights for a July move in date. I tried looking for a place in Cleveland Heights but same problem there. The Hamptons are a great apartment complex though. Right opposite the malls and close to university heights and case too. I got a 2 bed/2 bath place so now I need to find myself a roomate. Any ideas on how to go about that? I wanna thank all the folks on this forum for their help. I checked out numerous properties in the area and am now capable of guiding newcomers to cleveland. This has also given me an opportunity to better explore the city and get to know it more of its surrounding areas.

I have a decision now. Not on the apt but the place... I have decided I want to move to SHAKER HEIGHTS. All day today, and I hope this beautiful sunny day is the start of Spring, I drove around the Shaker Square area and simply loved it. The Lower Shaker Lake, the fabulous houses, the trees, the urban feel, young professionals. I would be really happy if I could move there. I looked at the Fairhill Place (Fairhill and North Moreland) the Cormere (North Moreland between Larchmere and Fairhill) Kemper Place (Kemper Rd) Knickerbocker (off Coventry Rd opp Marc's) Crestview (Overlook Rd) but didnt quite find any appealing. The Fairhill Place is quite nice with its proximity to the lake and the square plus there is some recreational bldg next door. Does any one know what its called ? The Knickerbocker are really nice apartments but I dont think I want to live so close to the Coventry. Also they dont have convered parking. So now my task is to find out an apt in the Shaker Heights area. Does any one have some names to throw out?

The apts at Sagamore Hills are awesome. Very much what I am looking for. I dont quite like the location though. shs96, would you know similar apt communities?

Closeness to airport is not my biggest criteria. I just found this website that has listings of apts in Shaker Heights. http://www.shakeronline.com/relocation/listings.asp Looking at the pictures of Shaker Heights and the apts on this listing, I am quite impressed as they look very pretty and so does Shaker Heights. I have to say I havent been to the Shaker area much. I will be checking out a lot of apts in the listing over the weekend. One of the reasons I wanted to move to areas like Parma and Middleburgh is because I felt it would be easier to find newly renovated apts there and natural beauty and amenities (walking, running paths, gyms, pools) . But looking at the website I now think Shaker heights could provide both.

^ I dont get reimbursed for travel to and from the airport. All I get is a daily per diem. So these days I have to pay $40 to the airport from downtown :(

I was in Brussels for two weeks this month and I didnt encounter many people that spoke English!!!! When using public transport or at the restaurant or the grocery store, I always found it difficult to find people that spoke english. Mostly french. So I am now working on my french as I have another trip coming up in 2 weeks. As for my apartment search, I now have a list of apartments that I will be checking out and researching on. As you can see, I am pretty focussed on either Parma Heights or Shaker Square and the apts are all around $700 for a 1 bedroom apartment. I think this thread can turn out to be quite a comprehensive resource for apartments in the cleveland area. 1. The Islanders - Middleburg Heights 2. Hunters Manor - Middleburg Heights 3. Pleasant Lake Apartments - Parma 4. Woodbury Commons - Parma 5. Westview Acres Apartments - Parma 6. Park Lane Villas - Shaker Square 7. Ludlow Gables - Shaker Square 8. Ashwood Courts - Shaker Square 9. Van Aken Crossing - Shaker Square

Brussels is kind of quite, not a whole lot going on. I will be spending around a total of 180 days there this year there so I should be getting a chance to get to know it a lot better. They dont speak English out there, just like in Germany I would assume. They speak Dutch which is like German and speak French. And eating out in Brussels is expensive !!!! like 30 euros per person for dinner.

Huron Square Apartments or Osborn, they are both nice and owned by the same management.

I currently live in a newly renovated bldg in downtown with underground heated parking, dishwasher, dryer, washer, carpet, vaulted ceilings and new paint. Since I am willing to spend around $800 for a one bed apt, I would like to have atleast these amenities available.