API housing for married folks

[nugget81]

Can anybody give me a straight answer to whether or not the Navy will pay for the move from OCS to Pensacola for IFS and API? We're trying to figure out if we should get a jump on the move (if it's not PCS) or wait until the last minute when the orders come in.

Short answer: NO....unless you're an NFO, then it depends. Wait until primary.

 

[Birdog8585]

Thanks for the info fellas. Any idea what the wait for API is these days.

When you check into MATSG, you will be thrown into the pool and if you have all of your NAIL (NOMI, Anthro, IFS, Legal) complete you will most likely class up pretty quick - 3 weeks or so.

As far as living in p-cola for API, just suck up the drive for a little bit and get a place in Pace or Milton. Trust me you'll thank yourself when you get to primary.

Semper Yut

 

[eurotrash]

Don't married Marines/Sailors rate base housing while at NASP for API?

 

[aggieoarsman]

No BOQ on NAS Pensacola

I am a unique situation, but here's how it is working for me...

According to the folks at central Housing, there is no place for officers to stay on NAS Pensacola.

I am field accession board selectee and so I'm doing IFS in Milton.

I am a geobachelor for a while and am living in the 'combined bachelor quarters' on Whiting. It's pretty nice diggs....and you can't beat free rent.

If you want to leave the wife behind and can swing the modified orders to be a geobachelor, contact central housing and they'll point you in the right direction...gotta call somebody who calls somebody...but I'll leave that for a pesonal message if you have questions.

API/A-pool is a bit of a hassle driving from Whiting, but it pays off for the short term only driving 10 minutes to IFS. Saving some $$ until moving to Pensacola area for API when the wife moves out here.

 

[insanebikerboy]

Sometimes you have to watch the lease you sign: fed law may trump the local state law, but do to the wording of the lease, you may be waiving those rights granted under the more permissive law.

The Florida laws actually state that the landlord and tenant can't differ from what is written in the statute, even if both the landlord and tenant agree to something else.

That actually saved me when I left P-cola because I had agreed to something different and because of the way timing worked out I would've been stuck with almost a month of extra rent due. However, the Florida statute trumped what I had signed with my landlord so I got out of it.