Roxanne G says:
June 7, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Housing on installation?

The housing is different. There are a lot of different housing sections, some are older and some are newer. I live in some of the newer which is in the Silver Run section and they look great on the outside as well as the inside. Pretty much all the housing on base is two stories. Some housing units have basements. Some yards are bigger than others. All in all they are really nice. My house is one of the best houses I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve had on a base. Depending on when you get to the base the waiting list could be a lot longer. When we got here, we waited about 2 weeks before moving into our house, others have waited 45 days. Housing off installation? I can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t give too much information on this since I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t live off base, but I do have friends that do. They have some housing a little close to base. A lot of them don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t look so good on the outside, areas seem kind of sketchy, but on the inside they look really nice. There are quite a few areas people don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t want to live in based on feeling safe. The safest and nicest place a lot of people move to is Eagle River, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s about 10-15 minutes from base depending on traffic. Some also choose to live in Wasilla but that is a good 45 minutes away, and in the winter probably longer.


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Tibo says:
March 5, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Renter Be Warned

Cost of living in ?¢‚Ǩ?ìPRIVITIZED?¢‚Ǩ¬ù base housing is determined by your BAH. Regardless of the home you are staying in, each time you promote your BAH entitlement will be taken. PRIVITIZED?¢‚Ǩ¬¶PRIVITIZED?¢‚Ǩ¬¶why would they have the right to take your BAH entitlement and not charge according to local market?PRIVITIZED..yeah right?¢‚Ǩ¬¶just another way of saying live on base, we care?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.and want to rip you off. Check the local market for a place to rent, you will find a lot better quality and upgrades for less. Price of PRIVITIZED WANTA BE base housing is not worth it. They know they don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t compete with the market so they charge BAH, regardless of the housing condition, age, quality, etc.


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Priscilla Brown says:
August 19, 2010 at 12:21 pm

READ YOUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO POSSIBLY WIN $20 GIFT CARD TO THE AAFES. Yes, you read that right. Here at Elmendorf AFB a monthly newsletter is mailed out to you from housing. Each month, ten lucky houses will get a winning newsletter. Unfortunately, only 1-3 people have been finding their statment and claiming their prize. Make sure to read it, it has valuable information on what is happening, changes that may occur and reminder on rules. Plus, the statment is simple to find! It will say something along the lines of ?¢‚Ǩ?ìCONGRATULATIONS, you have a winning newsletter, bring it into the Aurora military housing office to claim your gift card by?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù. Takes maybe five minutes to read the newsletter.

Rules: you have 24 hours to remove the snow from your driveway and sidewalk in front of your house. I recommend a snowblower depending on your budget and the size of your area of responsibility. Go to the housing supply building to get your alloted salt each month because this helps to prevent ice or melt ice.

If you leave town for five days or more you MUST notify housing of your absence and give someone a key to your house. That person will be responsible to remove snow if necessary and let housing into your house in the event of a frozen/broken pipe.

Additionally, in the qualifying months you can win $100 gift card for getting yard of the month. Past bases I saw houses only win with excessive flowers or lawn ornaments. Here, people won for having trimmed, green grass and no flowers or excessive ornmanets. How great is that? $100 for having a great lawn and simplicity!


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Priscilla Brown says:
August 19, 2010 at 12:14 pm

Housing always seems to be the first concern, questions and nightmare for a military family. On Elmendorf we have Aurora military housing which is a privatized housing development and offers several options. Unfortunately, as we all know in the military it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s first open, first come, first serve and you never know what you will get. There is from wow that?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s bad don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t want to live there to that?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s amazing I hope I get that. They offer two bedroom to four bedroom and the wait list can be long depending on what you need (children determines how many bedrooms).

What I can tell you is as soon as you get your assignment, wait for your orders. Then get ahold of housing to fax your orders (official paperwork) and the required application to get on the waitlist. This can help you get into housing faster and less of a wait in TLF.

Be aware some housing is on a meter for electricity. This can be scary. The allowance fluctuates, but here is the great thing! Each month, if you go under the allowance the difference is put into an account at housing. Once that account hits $250 they send YOU a check to do as you wish. Save electricity and get money!

The downside is if you go over you pay extra. :( No fun, so start practicing with yourself and your kids on ways to save electricity. Another shocker is some of housing REQUIRES you to have the basic cable package. You start an allotment on top of your housing allotment. This is NOT included in your BAH and is NOT an option for certain housing development. The plus side is it runs about $40 and is a huge savings. It gives you basic cable and your choice of a house phone with 100 long distance minutes or a cell phone. You pick.

To add onto your packages be aware GCI is a little more complicated than you may be use to. When you sign up for internet they will ask you how many hours you want. I was baffled, what do you mean how many hours? But I was relieved to find an unlimited high speed internet package. Then you can add on to your basic cable package. Remember, your allotment for basic cable set up through Aurora housing is NOT the same as your internet or add on packages through GCI. So you will have a total of three bills to pay. One the allotment required, second the internet if you want that, and third the additional cable packages beyond basic cable. Confusing yes, but the allotment cuts it down to two separate bills to pay. We put ours on automatic to cut down on dealing with remembering any of it.

More posts on newsletters and rules.


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Debbie Peterson says:
May 31, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Privitized housing owned by Aurora Military Housing.


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Katie Moore Freeze says:
May 31, 2010 at 11:47 am

Three of the subdivisions offered on base are new (built in the last 5 years or so) and some is pretty old. The newer neighborhoods do NOT have basements. Housing pictures/info can be found at the Aurora military housing web page.


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