We are moving to Pendleton and looking at base housing. We've been looking at South Mesa 1 and I see it is E-5 to E-9. Do all of these ranks get the same house?

For instance an E-8 in South Mesa 1 gets the same house essentially as an E-5? If so how do they justify this?

An E-8 BAH is 2598 and an E-5 BAH is 1908. So does the E-8 family pay 8,280 more a year to live in the same house up the road from the E-5 family?

Can someone enlighten me if I'm missing something? This is not a "rank" issue either. This is a dollar and cents matter so lets keep it clean. 

Some have more rooms but that depends on dependents too. Yep kind of unfair to higher ranks but that is the way housing works. We are an e-6 and the e-8 that live here get the same house no money back. We would live off base but it was hard to find a rental with 2 digs- they got us for now :) we still really like our house 

It's been that way for quite some time, on most, if not all, bases.

The home offered is based on rank, number of dependents, as well as availability. If a Marine rates a 3 bedroom and only 4 bedroom homes are available, it will be offered. 

An E-8 BAH is 2598 and an E-5 BAH is 1908. So does the E-8 family pay 8,280 more a year to live in the same house up the road from the E-5 family?


Yes.

If you are specifically looking for E8/E9 housing, there are two streets in San Onofre 1 that are set aside for this rank. It's in two cul-de-sacs across from the school. They are stand-alone houses with fantastic ocean views. Plus, the school goes from K-8, then feeds into San Clemente High, which is a much better school than Oceanside, if that matters to you. :) 

In south Mesa they are the same exact homes. NCO and SNCO are divided by a main road. There is also an E8/E9 cul-de-sac with ocean and moutian views, but again the actually homes are the same. Wire Mountian has a few stand alone homes, five or so for E8/E/9. But there is a couple year wait. This is pretty standard at all bases. Our last base we lived in an E-1 thru O-3 area. All the homes were exactly the same and they did not separate ranks. O-3 would be living right next to E-1. 

It totally sucks that we pay so much in BAH and get this hole in the wall of a 1400 SqFt home and the E-1to E-5 housing down the road is 2400 sq ft and they pay much less!
I don't get it either! Totally sucks but from what I've read it's the MC that picks the rank structure in housing and not the housing office. 

Might want to look up the instruction, but last i heard each rank is entitled to a certain amount of square footage.

I've seen a married E-8 with no children in a 4 bedroom house, the same size as say a married E-5 with 4 dependents rates due to the pay-grade determining the size of the base house, not the number of dependents.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is what it is. Can always move out in town if you don't find base housing adequate. 

So, now that your husband is at the upper end of the E class, you now have a problem with the housing arrangement?

Wasn't so bad when he was at the bottom of the pile though, eh? 

^ shizz- How disrespectful! She wasn't referring to his rank, more so the thaught of money they would be paying to live in the area. 

No, not disrespectful.

Was she upset for the upper E's when her husband was on the lower end of the spectrum and getting the same housing?

I think not. 

So, now that your husband is at the upper end of the E class, you now have a problem with the housing arrangement?

Wasn't so bad when he was at the bottom of the pile though, eh??

We only lived on base one time in his career and it was the last time we were stationed at Pendleton. We had a small 2 bedroom 1 bathroom, OLD apartment in a fourplex. It had termites so bad they would show up in massive amounts around the windows. It was so gross. My husband was an E-6 then and they tore them down after we left. No one else ever lived there after us.

So you shouldn't assume anything about the living arrangements our family has endured and we certainly had a problem with it back then, which is why we never lived on base again. 

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