I really hate apartment leases, and contracts. I will have to renew mine shortly. I've been reading through it, and in order to have the freedom to leave tomorrow, I need to keep $4159 on hand to cover all of the early termination fees, and other fees. I've had this amount set aside for almost a year now, the time I've been at this place. But it really bothers me. How could we allow a society where people are forced into situations like this? As an American, I've grown up with talk of freedom, and the importance thereof, but how many people are truly free? I've worked extremely hard to not be in debt, and to work at a savings. This makes me question how many people are tied down by contracts debts and other things, and because of that are trapped. It is kinda depressing. :\ I've set aside the money, so that I am really free, but I don't like it one bit.
Freedom is expensive.