WATCH OUT FOR THESE FIVE EXTRA COSTS ON YOUR RENTAL by Katherine
So you’ve made your rent budget and you’ve been good and remembered to budget for basic utilities like internet, cable, electricity, gas and even …

Congratulations to our blogger Elyse who is graduating from college!
 ”My Post-Grad Apartment Hunt Starts” by Elyse
May is here and so is my college graduation. While it’s exciting to celebrate the end of writing papers and …

You heard it here first — we’re going to the mailbox!
Benjamin from Allentown, PA  wants to know how much his rent should be increased per year. Ah, don’t we all. I’m actually about a month …

It’s May and you know what that means — the beginning of summer rental season.  If you act fast you may luck out but otherwise, get ready for rentals to go bat-shit crazy.
To give you …

Hi there! I’m Theresa. I’m currently living in Staten Island, NY. I had three roommates there, but they’ve all up and left due to life changes/hating NYC, and I can’t afford to stay there anymore.
I’m …

We get asked this question a lot, so here’s a repeat of a post from last year.
When you are planning to move out on your own you’ll need be able to cover three types of …

It’s Jen. I feel like I haven’t sat down at a computer without checking Craigslist in the past four days. Jason and I have pretty much decided that the Mission and Noe Valley will be …

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston are without doubt terrific cities; but you’d be right foolish to believe that they’re the only American cities worth living in. With some rents in major …

Hi everyone. Thanks for reading. My apartment hunt officially begins this weekend, though I’ve been planning and researching online for months. I’ll be moving to Chicago on July 1st to begin medical school, but I’m …

Living in NYC I have resigned myself to paying high rents on small places, so $1000 doesn’t sound like that much to me. But what could such an amount of money get you all over …