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How Much Should You Budget for Rent?
Use our tips to help figure out just how much you can comfortably afford to spend each month on rent. Sometimes finances can seem like magic. Or, at the very least, a mystery. Find your perfect...
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How to Avoid Rental Fraud
Follow these tips to make sure you don’t become a victim of rental fraud. Renter, beware! Not all listing sites on the Internet are what they appear to be. Some hope to take advantage of you, turning...
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What Gen Y Wants in an Apartment
Take note of these new amenity trends designed to make you feel like you’re living on Easy Street. It’s not just what’s cooler, faster, or flashier… young people want practical, too! Find your perfect...
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Live in the Center of It All – No Car Needed! – in a TOD Community
Start your apartment search with a city’s transit opportunities in mind. How would you like to live in a community where your grocery store is right around the corner, work is a 10-minute walk, and...
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Is Living Alone the New Normal?
The “lonely single guy or girl” is a stereotype of the past. More people are choosing to live alone than ever before! For past generations, “growing up” meant getting married, buying a home and...
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Rent for Control of Your Personal Economics
When you add up all that apartment living has to offer, renting can play a key role in your personal economy. Watch your rent budget. Invest in stocks. Save for the future. Pay attention to the...
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The Rent vs. Buy Debate: Gen Y Weighs In
It’s the age-old question: rent or buy? But what if space weren’t a factor in that equation? It’s an ongoing, popular question: should I stay in an apartment or buy a single-family house or...
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Renters Insurance: What You Need to Know
Insurance for your rental apartment can do a lot — and really add to your peace of mind! You might think you can get away without buying renter’s insurance — and you may have plenty of excuses for why...
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Tips to Help You Nab Your First-Choice Apartment in a Competitive Rental Market
In some cities, you’ve got to bring your best to nab your favorite apartment in a competitive market. In some rental markets, apartment hunting can be as competitive as a job search. In fact, modern,...
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5 Economic Factors that Favor the Perma-Renter
The new trend in long-term renting serves many apartment dwellers well. Check out the economics behind the phenomenon here. If you see yourself living in your apartment for the foreseeable future, you...
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Apartment Improvements on the Way for Renters in 2014
Updated kitchen appliances are a major factor that draw renters to an apartment, especially if they’re stainless steel. As the housing market improves, apartment communities are looking for new ways to...
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Moving on Up: 5 Reasons Why Top Floor Living is Lovely
As you begin your search for a new apartment, your wish list is probably full of features and amenities that you just can’t live without. Great location, hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances –...
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How to Make an Apartment Feel Like Your Home
If you find apartment living a little generic, consider some of the ways you can turn that perception around. Choose your apartment community carefully. Where you live says something about you, so...
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Which Cities Will See the Greatest Rent Increase in 2014?
Check out the top ten cities where rents are rising this year! As Americans move around the country looking for new jobs and greater quality of life, they’ll see apartment rents going up in many U.S....
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Apartment Parking Tips: Take the Stress Out of Finding a Space
If parking in your apartment community feels like a free-for-all, we’ve got some tips to help you think it through! Does the thought of parking in your apartment community make you wish for a...
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6 Ways to Know if Your Apartment is ‘The One’
If you genuinely love coming home to your apartment, you might have yourself a keeper. Image: Optima Sonoran Village, Scottsdale, AZ Before you find your true love, as they say, you have to kiss a few...
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The State of Renting: ‘Realty’ Check 2014
If your instinct is that the rent is, well, “too damn high,” check out some possible reasons why! By Steve Harper and Elizabeth Beasley, Apartment Guide contributor Renting — while never really out of...
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Upgrading to a 2BR Apartment? Here’s Where It’ll Cost You the Most
Learn About Tableau Considering a move to a larger apartment? Wondering if you can afford a second bedroom? We wondered the same thing and decided to look at our data to see what metro areas had the...
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How to Remember to Pay the Rent on Time
Remember… remember… remember the rent! We offer tips to help you jog your own memory and keep up with your primary first-of-the-month responsibility! The first of the month means it’s time, once again,...
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How Long ‘Til These Planets Become the Next Rental Hot Spots?
Click the image to view the full infographic! In the future, the hottest rentals in the coolest neighborhoods may be found a little further out than you’re accustomed to looking. We’re imagining a time...
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