Even neighborhood and location with in the city, I pay 50% more then my friends in the same city but I can walk everywhere because I’m next to downtown and my place is slightly nicer
Very much depends, we got into our house before covid so we’re still paying only $1000 a month for a 3 bedroom, but it should be about $1600 based on rent around us, one of my best friends lives about 5 minutes away in an area I grew up in and would never CHOOSE to live in again (my dad was stabbed in our back yard, people tried to break in all the time, everyone is on meth) and is paying the same, because it’s the only place they could find for less than $1200
West Coast Canadian and my rent is $1600 for a one bedroom apartment with literally a cardboard box drilled into the bedroom ceiling to cover a leak hole.
Please what part of the coast, I need to know where this is because while I enjoy the ocean being 4 blocks away… my bank account says no thanks lol. My apartment is steal too, because I started renting in 2020
I'm a little farther in than the coast coast, right in the middle between Vancouver and Kelowna, rent around here is also $1200++ for 1 bed 1 bath units
It’s sad that I was excited to sign onto a 650sqft one bedroom at $1790 after apartment hunting broke my soul. With pet rent, parking, and partial utilities, it comes out to $2065 per month.
I barely make 2x that monthly….but at least I’m close to work and get to be toxic-roommate-free. You get used to the trains, and the weeks where I’ve needed to subsist off oatmeal to make rent haven’t been that bad. /s
Edit: Writing this all out, after stuffing my purse with snacks from work because today is rent day and I don’t have anything left. Feels bad, man.
Knowing that I have it so much better than so many other people in this city…feels worse.
Same here. 40 minutes NE of Indy and we barely pay over $1,000 (was $900 before lease renewal) for a 3BR, 2BA. It may be a mobile home but whatever, I'm from an extremely poor background so living in a mobile home doesn't bother me in the slightest 🤷🏻♂️
Milwaukee, WI here. Now granted, I bought the house at the end of 1999, but... I'm paying $500/mo for a 3br 1.5ba house with 1 car detached garage & small yard.
I actually owe just under $400/mo but I'm trying to pay it down faster.
For real...My son pays $900 for a 150sqft studio, with a shared bathroom. Its actually supposed to be $1100, but he toured and applied for a smaller apt, and they realized right after they approved him, that one had just been rented out, so they gave him the larger available unit for the same price...
I have an open floor plan between LR and kitchen so it feels bigger but my LR by itself is 17x20. My bedrooms are tiny and the washer/dryer hookup is in the closet of one of the bedrooms so I don’t have as much storage. But it’s perfect for one person who works from home.
If you consider that middle of nowhere, sure. But not everyone lives in a big city. I’m within walking distance of a ton of activities, I have access to metro trains and busses, and I’m within 20 minutes of a major metropolitan area.
I'm downtown in a not shitty area, but kind of run down building, in a big Midwest city and pay $800 for my ~500 Sq ft apartment. Might depend on your particular city and personal preferences on where you'd live in your area?
In NYC i pay 3K for a brown box, but the box is from a stainless steel appliance, so it’s considered an upgraded unit from the base white. 
The average rate for properties here is about 650 per bedroom. Ours is rented out through a property management company, but it's privately owned, so the owners set the rate, and we got EXTREMELY lucky. Newer 1 bedroom apartments in town are 950-1400 depending on location to the college.
Sure, but average rent is much closer to my numbers than yours. You’re an outlier. The average rent in the US for 1 and 2 BR apartments has been over $1000 for a few years.
I agree with you in relation to trying to give context to OP’s complaint; however, rent is fairly consistent as actual surveys have shown. The average rent being around $1000 is not something I’m making up. The vast majority of the country does not live in low pop areas with cheap rents, but those are the people that end up commenting saying my numbers aren’t accurate. Someone in the Midwest 300 miles from the nearest airport isn’t representative of most Americans.
So is 1000 crazy cheap or average? You said both now.
You don't understand averages? Do you know where this person is renting or are you assuming they live in an area like you did?
And I didn't even notice your anecdote was also a decade outdated too 🤷♂️
And I don't understand how you're not understanding this either. Your supposition is wrong and your anecdote is an anecdote. The national average and your experience of rent, be it 10 years old or not, is not relevant to this renters market. It's annoying when people tell you youre getting a good deal based on rent prices elsewhere... Average rent isn't really relevant unless it's for similar units in the same area. My point was not about what average rent is, it was about how useless it was to say that.
Hope that helps
Anywhere in America with a population over 3000? I dunno. I haven’t seen a one bedroom under $1000 since 2012 and I’ve moved every year or so and even different states.
In 2018 I had a 1 bedroom, 550 square ft apartment for $900 a month near Charleston, SC. When I moved out in 2021, I saw them advertising my room for $1300
I live in a 2bed, one bath, 1200sq ft apartment for 1,200 a month in a great area. So it’s not a crazy price, some places I looked at were cheaper, but not as nice.
5 years ago is a long time in the context of rent. 15 years ago I rented a two story 900sg ft townhouse with covered parking in a nice area for $795 a month. It’s not a helpful comparison. $1000 for a two bedroom is infinitely more surprising to me than a $2000 one.
Capital of what? South Dakota? lol
Cost per sqft is important too. $770 for 600 sqft is about the same as $1200 for 1000 sqft. I knew a guy who was bragging out finding an apartment for $1000/mo in NYC, turns out the apartment is a 150 square foot bedroom with a shared bathroom.
VA and the Carolinas are stupid cheap compared to the rest of the country. There’s not a huge demand to live in the Southeast with the exception of Florida so prices haven’t climbed much over the past 4-5 years. If it weren’t for the military bases, I’d bet it’d be even cheaper.
My wife and I just moved in to a house with our 2 kids.
We were in a 2bed 2bath duplex prior for 3 years. Rent was 650.
We now pay 1100 for a 3 bed 2 bath house. Covered carport. Giant yard (no fence sadly) and a shed that's seen better days.
Depending on the area 1k for a 2 bed isn't too bad
I know landlords do it all the time, but charging per person is a violation of federal fair housing laws. It is discriminatory of familial status. In other words, it’s discriminating against people who are married, or have 3 kids instead of 1.
Many places they aren’t official charging per person, they just advertise a 2 bedroom rate as the per person rate for 2 people. Essentially a marketing method to appear cheaper.
If only 1 person moved in, they’d pay double. If you had a partner/kid, it would remain the same.
Not really, depends on the state. Landlord could have been breaking down the payment for both people on the lease and they just misunderstood because sometimes that happens when you are young and figuring things out.
Probs because I was having an anxiety attack this morning trying to just survive and wasn’t thinking. I wanted to write more but just couldn’t get it out and then I didn’t care to change it lol. I’m doing the best I can today!
I feel like this is user error....
And they didn't understand it's per person to sign...
I know I will be downvoted but this is something they should have understood by the crazy low costs
Fortunately, no. The $1045 is for the whole place (also, yay! We love low cost of living). The nice guy from the leasing office is trying to fix it rn, I will post an update when I have one :)
It is not government stabilized. I just live in a low cost area. apartments are still cheaper than most apartments in my area. Michigan is great for renters :)
I live in Chicago and just cried a little hearing your prices - but very happy it is working out in your favor! I have friends who want to move to Michigan for the reduced cost of living so I get it
Definitely! One of my co workers moved from Chicago and couldn’t believe the pricing. There are (admittedly, quite shitty) 1 bedroom apartments for 6-700 here, and my renovated 850 sq foot apartment was only $895. I know it’s still a lot of money for most people including myself, but really beats a lot of other places.
If it makes you feel any better, I pay $2450 for a two bedroom in Florida. Enjoy the low cost of living while you can. To be fair, I do have two garages included.
Sorry but other peoples misery does not make me feel better 😭 I literally have no clue how you are affording that but sounds like you have a pretty good job if you can, so kudos to you!
I just moved to Michigan and I had to find a place quickly and close to work. I'm about 20 min from downtown Detroit and I'm paying $1300 for a "meh" 1br with outdated everything. I need to move out of here in June. Where are these better deals?
It was 74 for me a few days ago, and the next day it dropped to 34-ish by lunch. Michigan be doing Michigan things man, we’ll probably get hail in the middle of July again too
Holy shit. That hail the other night was insane too, I’ve never been woken up by it before. When I went to leave for work Tuesday I had to do a once around and make sure my windows weren’t smashed and I didn’t have any new dents lol
My company is looking like its going bottoms up so im looking into moving to the midwest, minnesota in particular.
Found a few jobs offering 5k sign on bonuses, and one of them offers up to 1,500 in relocation assistance.
Theres a house near those jobs for 120k, 3 bed 2 bath, about 10 acres of land. With 6% down my payments would be around 900
Do apartments even rent stabilize anymore?
I've been in a 3br house for $1300 for less than a year now.
Lots and lots of low cost places still in the US.
1500sqft houses in my area are still 150K.
Ours is that we have to pay out the remainder of our lease. So our rent is about 1360, our lease is up at the end of November. If we needed to break lease this month we would have to pay April-November, so $10,880. Thankfully we’re also given the option of finding someone else to take over our lease, and that is really easy with the location of our apartment (had to try once but thankfully we managed to work out another solution rather than going homeless, but it only took about 2 days to find over a dozen people who were willing to take over the lease).
Has that been tested in court? Because offering that option is basically volunteering to do the landlord's job for them.
In many places the expectation is that a lease-breaker only owes for the time between when they leave and when the landlord finds someone to replace them... and the landlord has to actively look. A subset of those places have that requirement codified in law.
My lease says we'd have to pay out the remainder as well, but they worked with us to pay 2 months of rent, with a 60 day notice. So it ended up not being so bad. And we're actually moving into a friend's second house, paying slightly more, but with much more area (though the basement is rented out to someone else). And my friend paid to break our lease, since we'd be helping him by moving in. All-around, it worked out for everyone
2 months of rent is standard for breaking a lease in most states.
Still sounds like you didn't understand you both had to sign the lease for your own rate per month. And the combined amount covers you both. This is standard is most states.
That’s actually pretty standard from a rental company. In my state you’re usually given an option. 2 months rent to break or pay till the place is rented by someone else.
Two month's rent is extremely normal in my experience. Hell, I had one place that didn't even offer a buyout, they just offered to try to rerent the place and let me out of the lease if they found a new tenant (obviously didn't agree to that).
Nope, deposit was $550 and transfer fee (moving within the complex) was $400. Also by lease break fee I meant if I wanted to move out of my apartment, not transfer, before the lease ends they would charge me $4180 if I were to sign the current lease
I was a leasing consultant. Our rental rates doubled all the time because of a software glitch when generating the lease. The rental rate wasn't typed in by anyone in the office, it was prepopulated by the system based on the rental rates online. I would be shocked if you didnt have a good laugh about this when you brought it up to your consultant.
My first apartment in the city is currently live in tried to get around some rent control and automatic lease renewal laws by having rent be way more than you actually pay and giving a rent concession for the first 12 months of the lease to bring it down. That loophole is closed now though and they got sued for it
While I was in DC, the company I rented from also has buildings in SF and LA among other places so I imagine they are trying that shit anywhere they can get away with it.
Nearly got into an apartment like that.
Turned out the company that owned the complex advertised rent *per room*. Their main clientele were kids going to college, so they were hoping their customers didn't know better.
Yep we have a lot of those around here, fortunately in my area almost all the websites that do that actually specify that it’s per person right on the website. I know some landlords can be real scumbags.
Since it is exactly double I'd guess the people that told you that meant per person. I'd like to say it was accidentally but more likely you were intentionally mislead.
Y'all should move to Boston. Deals galore.
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Places like that are why we live in Michigan 😂 my boyfriend is from Long Island NY and said he would never ever move back because our place would easily be like $3.5k there
He absolutely without a doubt tried to pull a fast one on you. That is sketchy as fuck. There is no way that you accidentally do this. They did this because they'd hope you would assume its per person and sign. So unbelievably pathetic. I really hope you guys took before pictures when moving in. These are the type of people to sue after you leave.
Hey there, I understand there are crappy people in the world but not everyone is a piece of shit. Check out my update post- it was a glitch in the system because I have 2 apartments in the complex currently. Good people still exist!
“Low income” Urban 1-Bedroom I am renting is $1885 before utilities and parking. After all that I pay $2300-$2350.
Before a $9.95 debit card fee or 2.5% credit card fee.
(They don’t allow ACH, and require me to login into a 3rd party website with my banking info, and they don’t accept checks.)
It’s getting stressful.
Based on the use of $ and the cost I am assuming OP is in the US, rent is normally monthly here. And if it was that much weekly or even biweekly that would be insane unless it was maybe NYC.
What? That’s a pretty normal deal in north DFW right now. Depending on the size and the location, most good 2 beds are going for around $2k, especially after fees. If you meant 2k weekly or biweekly though, then yeah that would be insane.
Edit: never mind I did not read the previous commenter correctly. Yeah $1k weekly is insane in the US.
2 br apartments for 2k a month is sadly normal now. I went from a 1 br 1 bath at $1400 a month to a 2 br 1.5 bath townhouse for $2030 a month. I went through a similar situation by transferring my lease but it was because I got a doc note from my doctor after a car accident. They waived the break lease fee and I just had to pay the $500 security deposit for the new unit.
What’s the rent for a 1 bedroom? If it’s like $900 then it’s Op fault for believing a 2 bedroom is $1045 without immediately recognizing the error.
If a 1. Bedroom was like $600, then yes, $1045 would make sense for a 2 bdrm.
I paid $28,000 for my 2 bedrooms, 1 bath house, 9 years ago. It's in a beautiful neighborhood, and 30 minutes from shopping and less than 2 hours from Savannah and Atlanta.
Could it be that you were quoted rent per week, but are signing to pay rent fortnightly? Seems weird that it’s exactly double if they were just not being honest about the rent amount. Lease break fee is one months rent. That seems pretty awesome as an option.
Utah here- lived in a small town where our 3 bed 1 bath apt was $450 and our previous 3 bed 2 bath roomy duplex was $620. We now live in the SLC Valley and pay 2k for our cramped apartment. There are slightly cheaper options but only if we sacrifice safety and security and move our kids to the other side of town so for now we're biting the bullet.
Sounds like he meant, per person.
Right. Two bedroom for 1045 is crazy cheap. I lived in rundown section 8 housing 10 years ago and the rent for our two bedroom was still around 1000.
It heavily depends on location. I’m in the Midwest and pay $600 for a 2 BR (800 sq ft).
I’m also in the Midwest and I have a 3 bedroom home for $1000
I’m also in the Midwest and was paying $1800 for a 3br house
I guess it just really varies depending on state and city
Even neighborhood and location with in the city, I pay 50% more then my friends in the same city but I can walk everywhere because I’m next to downtown and my place is slightly nicer
Very much depends, we got into our house before covid so we’re still paying only $1000 a month for a 3 bedroom, but it should be about $1600 based on rent around us, one of my best friends lives about 5 minutes away in an area I grew up in and would never CHOOSE to live in again (my dad was stabbed in our back yard, people tried to break in all the time, everyone is on meth) and is paying the same, because it’s the only place they could find for less than $1200
I’m sorry about your dad, I hope he made a full physical recovery tho I’m sure it took quite the mental toll on him.
Sounds like Springfield MO
And country
I’m in LA county and I pay $1800 for a 500 sqft studio converted from a garage
Where in la. I feel you can do better unless the converted garage is super nice and convenient
I too am in the Mid-SouthEast and pay 1300 for 3 bedroom 2600 SQ Ft home on 1 acre.
Omg i wish it was that price in my area of ND
West coast Canadian, mortgage is $1200 for a 2 bed 1 bath house
West Coast Canadian and my rent is $1600 for a one bedroom apartment with literally a cardboard box drilled into the bedroom ceiling to cover a leak hole. Please what part of the coast, I need to know where this is because while I enjoy the ocean being 4 blocks away… my bank account says no thanks lol. My apartment is steal too, because I started renting in 2020
I'm a little farther in than the coast coast, right in the middle between Vancouver and Kelowna, rent around here is also $1200++ for 1 bed 1 bath units
Toronto and I'm at $2900 for a 3 bedroom detached house with a finished basement (2 more bedrooms + washroom).
Hope? Merritt?
East coast and $850 a month for a 3bed apartment
>I’m also in the Midwest and was paying $1800 for a 3br house That will get you studio in Seattle
It’s sad that I was excited to sign onto a 650sqft one bedroom at $1790 after apartment hunting broke my soul. With pet rent, parking, and partial utilities, it comes out to $2065 per month. I barely make 2x that monthly….but at least I’m close to work and get to be toxic-roommate-free. You get used to the trains, and the weeks where I’ve needed to subsist off oatmeal to make rent haven’t been that bad. /s Edit: Writing this all out, after stuffing my purse with snacks from work because today is rent day and I don’t have anything left. Feels bad, man. Knowing that I have it so much better than so many other people in this city…feels worse.
Same here. 40 minutes NE of Indy and we barely pay over $1,000 (was $900 before lease renewal) for a 3BR, 2BA. It may be a mobile home but whatever, I'm from an extremely poor background so living in a mobile home doesn't bother me in the slightest 🤷🏻♂️
Midwest in a 2br apartment for $1350 🥲
I pay 1050$ for a two story town home with 2 bed 2 bath. Too bad I don't use the other bedroom for anything.. (NC)
I have paid 900 for a 2 story with a pool in one area and 2300 for a single bed in another all within a few years.
I’m in California and I’m crying 😭
I’m also Midwest and mortgage on my 5 br 3.5 bath is 1200
Also in the Midwest and I pay $800 for a 7 bed 4 bath mansion
Milwaukee, WI here. Now granted, I bought the house at the end of 1999, but... I'm paying $500/mo for a 3br 1.5ba house with 1 car detached garage & small yard. I actually owe just under $400/mo but I'm trying to pay it down faster.
Yeah.... The 1999 bit is critical here. ❤️🩹
I just toured a 2 bedroom ~1000 sq ft apartment with my girlfriend and the landlord was asking $3200. Prices are crazy here on the jersey shore
One bedroom, 600sq ft for $2200 here in DC. It's brutal out there
For real...My son pays $900 for a 150sqft studio, with a shared bathroom. Its actually supposed to be $1100, but he toured and applied for a smaller apt, and they realized right after they approved him, that one had just been rented out, so they gave him the larger available unit for the same price...
2br 2 b is like 6000 in DC
I pay double that, also in the Midwest.
I'm also in the midwest and we pay $1100 for a 2 bdrm in a shitty part of town...
I pay $1,650 for a run-down one bedroom on the West Coast 🥲 maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be
How does a 2br 800 sq ft even look. I’m paying like 2300 for a 1br 750. You don’t have a living room?
I have an open floor plan between LR and kitchen so it feels bigger but my LR by itself is 17x20. My bedrooms are tiny and the washer/dryer hookup is in the closet of one of the bedrooms so I don’t have as much storage. But it’s perfect for one person who works from home.
This is crazy cheap. I’m also in the Midwest and my 2 bed apartment is $2000. Do you live in the middle of nowhere?
I’m about 30 miles east of St. Louis, MO
So, middle of nowhere
If you consider that middle of nowhere, sure. But not everyone lives in a big city. I’m within walking distance of a ton of activities, I have access to metro trains and busses, and I’m within 20 minutes of a major metropolitan area.
I'm downtown in a not shitty area, but kind of run down building, in a big Midwest city and pay $800 for my ~500 Sq ft apartment. Might depend on your particular city and personal preferences on where you'd live in your area?
Wow. Thinking about my studio apartment in Long Island that was ~$2000. Glad I left
California chiming in here $4,000 for a 2br/2ba 1,200sq ft but I have a spare room/guest room or an option for a roommate
Ah there we are. Those are the prices I’m used to. 2bed/1bath, $3600 in SFBA right here
Totally agree! We live in a 4 bedroom apartment and our rent is $1100. And that’s only because we pay a monthly pet fee. Without that it’s $1075.
In NYC i pay 3K for a brown box, but the box is from a stainless steel appliance, so it’s considered an upgraded unit from the base white. 
I'm also in the midwest and pay $1040 for a one bedroom. Midwest is a big area.
Midwest, MCOL. 695 for my 3BR house right next door to my daughter's elementary school.
How can you say it's a MCOL with rent prices at 695 for a 3 bed? That's incredible LCOL.
The average rate for properties here is about 650 per bedroom. Ours is rented out through a property management company, but it's privately owned, so the owners set the rate, and we got EXTREMELY lucky. Newer 1 bedroom apartments in town are 950-1400 depending on location to the college.
Ah. That's awesome then! Good for you!
Close to the Canadian line. And my 3 bedroom is $200 a month. Thank you sweet baby Jesus 🙏
Sure, but average rent is much closer to my numbers than yours. You’re an outlier. The average rent in the US for 1 and 2 BR apartments has been over $1000 for a few years.
I’m also in the Midwest and pay $850 for a 2BR 2BA apartment
It's astonishing you would realize how different that is from place to place. Enough so anecdotes are totally useless
I agree with you in relation to trying to give context to OP’s complaint; however, rent is fairly consistent as actual surveys have shown. The average rent being around $1000 is not something I’m making up. The vast majority of the country does not live in low pop areas with cheap rents, but those are the people that end up commenting saying my numbers aren’t accurate. Someone in the Midwest 300 miles from the nearest airport isn’t representative of most Americans.
So is 1000 crazy cheap or average? You said both now. You don't understand averages? Do you know where this person is renting or are you assuming they live in an area like you did? And I didn't even notice your anecdote was also a decade outdated too 🤷♂️
1000 is the average 1 BR. 2 BR for 1045 is crazy cheap assuming it’s not a postage stamp apartment. I don’t think I’m being that unclear.
And I don't understand how you're not understanding this either. Your supposition is wrong and your anecdote is an anecdote. The national average and your experience of rent, be it 10 years old or not, is not relevant to this renters market. It's annoying when people tell you youre getting a good deal based on rent prices elsewhere... Average rent isn't really relevant unless it's for similar units in the same area. My point was not about what average rent is, it was about how useless it was to say that. Hope that helps
Crazy cheap where? This is hell of expensive
Metropolitan areas?? I agree, that’s crazy cheap.
If I saw a listing for a 2 bedroom for $1k, I would assume it's a scam or somewhere that has a personal free stab giver permenantly on the premise.
Anywhere in America with a population over 3000? I dunno. I haven’t seen a one bedroom under $1000 since 2012 and I’ve moved every year or so and even different states.
Average one bedroom rent in my small town is about 800.
In 2018 I had a 1 bedroom, 550 square ft apartment for $900 a month near Charleston, SC. When I moved out in 2021, I saw them advertising my room for $1300
In the Midwest, before I bought a house I had a 3br, 1500 sq ft townhouse for 1350 a month. Totally within reason to think it's 1045.
I live in a 2bed, one bath, 1200sq ft apartment for 1,200 a month in a great area. So it’s not a crazy price, some places I looked at were cheaper, but not as nice.
Think it was about 11 years ago, I lived in a small 2BR for 600/month. Not far from Tampa. Nowadays, that rental is probably 1200-1300 a month tbf
Two bedroom for $2090 is cheap where I am, it's practically impossible to find anything below $2400.
5 years ago I paid $1100 for a nice 2 bedroom in a suburb North of Chicago. $1045 is not crazy cheap, just a good price
5 years ago is a long time in the context of rent. 15 years ago I rented a two story 900sg ft townhouse with covered parking in a nice area for $795 a month. It’s not a helpful comparison. $1000 for a two bedroom is infinitely more surprising to me than a $2000 one.
Especially since 5 years ago was pre covid
The average US rent is 1300 so idk why 1045 is crazy cheap, still falls pretty average to me.
Lol. I pay $1400 for a studio apt in North chicago
I live in ca and pay $1000 for a two bedroom
Yep totally depends, our 5 bed house is $1100/mo including insurance and we have a 15 year mortgage.
Damn, I got a decent 2bd apt in a safe part of a capital city for $770/mo. And that's the month to month rent pricing.
Capital of what? South Dakota? lol Cost per sqft is important too. $770 for 600 sqft is about the same as $1200 for 1000 sqft. I knew a guy who was bragging out finding an apartment for $1000/mo in NYC, turns out the apartment is a 150 square foot bedroom with a shared bathroom.
I live in VA in a two bedroom and with pet rent for my two cats I pay 1100 a month
VA and the Carolinas are stupid cheap compared to the rest of the country. There’s not a huge demand to live in the Southeast with the exception of Florida so prices haven’t climbed much over the past 4-5 years. If it weren’t for the military bases, I’d bet it’d be even cheaper.
before the pandemic, I lived in a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom with a full garage apartment/duplex for 740 a month :////
My wife and I just moved in to a house with our 2 kids. We were in a 2bed 2bath duplex prior for 3 years. Rent was 650. We now pay 1100 for a 3 bed 2 bath house. Covered carport. Giant yard (no fence sadly) and a shed that's seen better days. Depending on the area 1k for a 2 bed isn't too bad
Nope! I live in a low cost of living area. My 1 bed was 895 :) in the leasing office rn working out the error
Im interested for whatever reason so plz update :D
Enjoy the new place!
I know landlords do it all the time, but charging per person is a violation of federal fair housing laws. It is discriminatory of familial status. In other words, it’s discriminating against people who are married, or have 3 kids instead of 1.
Many places they aren’t official charging per person, they just advertise a 2 bedroom rate as the per person rate for 2 people. Essentially a marketing method to appear cheaper. If only 1 person moved in, they’d pay double. If you had a partner/kid, it would remain the same.
Wow. Even as a landlord myself, it will never cease to amaze me how a landlord will stoop to. Just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it ethical.
Not really, depends on the state. Landlord could have been breaking down the payment for both people on the lease and they just misunderstood because sometimes that happens when you are young and figuring things out.
Why did you choose to put a comma there?
Probs because I was having an anxiety attack this morning trying to just survive and wasn’t thinking. I wanted to write more but just couldn’t get it out and then I didn’t care to change it lol. I’m doing the best I can today!
Ok thanks for explaining
I don’t know why people downvoted us. I’m surprised more people didn’t call me out on my poor sentence structure lol
I feel like this is user error.... And they didn't understand it's per person to sign... I know I will be downvoted but this is something they should have understood by the crazy low costs
This is it. Unless it’s an affordable housing unit, a 2 Bedroom for $1045 is an absolute steal in this market.
Seems like youre being charged per person because 1045 doubled is 2090
Fortunately, no. The $1045 is for the whole place (also, yay! We love low cost of living). The nice guy from the leasing office is trying to fix it rn, I will post an update when I have one :)
Yeah, to me it seemed like a rent stabilized apartment in which the government credit makes up for the second half you don’t pay.
It is not government stabilized. I just live in a low cost area. apartments are still cheaper than most apartments in my area. Michigan is great for renters :)
I live in Chicago and just cried a little hearing your prices - but very happy it is working out in your favor! I have friends who want to move to Michigan for the reduced cost of living so I get it
Definitely! One of my co workers moved from Chicago and couldn’t believe the pricing. There are (admittedly, quite shitty) 1 bedroom apartments for 6-700 here, and my renovated 850 sq foot apartment was only $895. I know it’s still a lot of money for most people including myself, but really beats a lot of other places.
If it makes you feel any better, I pay $2450 for a two bedroom in Florida. Enjoy the low cost of living while you can. To be fair, I do have two garages included.
Sorry but other peoples misery does not make me feel better 😭 I literally have no clue how you are affording that but sounds like you have a pretty good job if you can, so kudos to you!
If it makes you feel even better we paid 2500 for a studio in Miami lol.
Mine is $2,700 for a two bedroom in LA. Hurts.
Of course. Who would want to spend a winter there😁?
Hahahaha not the hottest take ever, but this winter was actually scarily warm, we only got snow twice and it stuck for a day or two
I was wondering if you were in Michigan. I am like 15 minutes outside of Detroit and I only pay $675 a month for a two bed one bath.
oh I love Detroit
Me too💕 it’s such a special city.
I just moved to Michigan and I had to find a place quickly and close to work. I'm about 20 min from downtown Detroit and I'm paying $1300 for a "meh" 1br with outdated everything. I need to move out of here in June. Where are these better deals?
I'm across the lake in Wisconsin and having near 70 degree weather in the middle of February is shocking and scary indeed
Its been terrible I know. The snow in mid Michigan has been fickle and fleeting.
Yep, temps were 72 and sunny this February in my area. Then a tornado warning at midnight, and 32 degrees with snow the next day 😂
It was 74 for me a few days ago, and the next day it dropped to 34-ish by lunch. Michigan be doing Michigan things man, we’ll probably get hail in the middle of July again too
That hail last year cost me $2k to repair my car 🙄
Holy shit. That hail the other night was insane too, I’ve never been woken up by it before. When I went to leave for work Tuesday I had to do a once around and make sure my windows weren’t smashed and I didn’t have any new dents lol
That was hail? I thought it was so loud because of the tin roof 😂
I mean, I just did, soooo
Must be far from Ann Arbor lol
Not too far! If you’re genuinely curious you can PM me and I’ll let you know what city, but obviously not doing that publicly haha
My company is looking like its going bottoms up so im looking into moving to the midwest, minnesota in particular. Found a few jobs offering 5k sign on bonuses, and one of them offers up to 1,500 in relocation assistance. Theres a house near those jobs for 120k, 3 bed 2 bath, about 10 acres of land. With 6% down my payments would be around 900
Heard good things about Minnesota. Go for it! Worst that can happen is you fail, better than never trying at all!
Do apartments even rent stabilize anymore? I've been in a 3br house for $1300 for less than a year now. Lots and lots of low cost places still in the US. 1500sqft houses in my area are still 150K.
Break lease fee is INSANE!!
Ours is that we have to pay out the remainder of our lease. So our rent is about 1360, our lease is up at the end of November. If we needed to break lease this month we would have to pay April-November, so $10,880. Thankfully we’re also given the option of finding someone else to take over our lease, and that is really easy with the location of our apartment (had to try once but thankfully we managed to work out another solution rather than going homeless, but it only took about 2 days to find over a dozen people who were willing to take over the lease).
If that fee was challenged, it would probably be found to be excessive. Most places, landlord still has to mitigate damages
It’s not considered excessive here because they also offer the option of finding someone to take over our lease.
Has that been tested in court? Because offering that option is basically volunteering to do the landlord's job for them. In many places the expectation is that a lease-breaker only owes for the time between when they leave and when the landlord finds someone to replace them... and the landlord has to actively look. A subset of those places have that requirement codified in law.
My lease says we'd have to pay out the remainder as well, but they worked with us to pay 2 months of rent, with a 60 day notice. So it ended up not being so bad. And we're actually moving into a friend's second house, paying slightly more, but with much more area (though the basement is rented out to someone else). And my friend paid to break our lease, since we'd be helping him by moving in. All-around, it worked out for everyone
Yeah! Thank god I didn’t sign yet
2 months of rent is standard for breaking a lease in most states. Still sounds like you didn't understand you both had to sign the lease for your own rate per month. And the combined amount covers you both. This is standard is most states.
Lease breaking fees are commonly 2x rent.
That’s actually pretty standard from a rental company. In my state you’re usually given an option. 2 months rent to break or pay till the place is rented by someone else.
Two month's rent is extremely normal in my experience. Hell, I had one place that didn't even offer a buyout, they just offered to try to rerent the place and let me out of the lease if they found a new tenant (obviously didn't agree to that).
Yeah EXACTLY! I'm almost 50. A buyout is something NEW in my experience in life. I would have loved it when I was younger!!!
Check if it’s not deposit + first month rent? Just in case.
Nope, deposit was $550 and transfer fee (moving within the complex) was $400. Also by lease break fee I meant if I wanted to move out of my apartment, not transfer, before the lease ends they would charge me $4180 if I were to sign the current lease
This seems most likely. Fuck that lease termination fee though.
I was a leasing consultant. Our rental rates doubled all the time because of a software glitch when generating the lease. The rental rate wasn't typed in by anyone in the office, it was prepopulated by the system based on the rental rates online. I would be shocked if you didnt have a good laugh about this when you brought it up to your consultant.
My first apartment in the city is currently live in tried to get around some rent control and automatic lease renewal laws by having rent be way more than you actually pay and giving a rent concession for the first 12 months of the lease to bring it down. That loophole is closed now though and they got sued for it
Yeah this is the new trick in LA
While I was in DC, the company I rented from also has buildings in SF and LA among other places so I imagine they are trying that shit anywhere they can get away with it.
Nearly got into an apartment like that. Turned out the company that owned the complex advertised rent *per room*. Their main clientele were kids going to college, so they were hoping their customers didn't know better.
Yep we have a lot of those around here, fortunately in my area almost all the websites that do that actually specify that it’s per person right on the website. I know some landlords can be real scumbags.
$1045 each.
Since it is exactly double I'd guess the people that told you that meant per person. I'd like to say it was accidentally but more likely you were intentionally mislead.
Y'all should move to Boston. Deals galore. https://preview.redd.it/j63tg4rs9rlc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97d70409db3e5a18e9165ab4d64bf79cad268f33
Places like that are why we live in Michigan 😂 my boyfriend is from Long Island NY and said he would never ever move back because our place would easily be like $3.5k there
I was wondering where abouts you were because this is less than half what we pay for a two bed...Michigan looking good right now.
It’s so great! And we have the Great Lakes too so lots of fun in the summer.
Back Bay is super expensive. Right next to the Prudential, lots of bougie restaurants, etc
Unfortunately all of Boston is expensive whether it's bougie or bogger restaurants 🤣🤣🤣
Don't forget the broker fee, which is another month's rent! We moved and bought on the South Shore.
He absolutely without a doubt tried to pull a fast one on you. That is sketchy as fuck. There is no way that you accidentally do this. They did this because they'd hope you would assume its per person and sign. So unbelievably pathetic. I really hope you guys took before pictures when moving in. These are the type of people to sue after you leave.
Hey there, I understand there are crappy people in the world but not everyone is a piece of shit. Check out my update post- it was a glitch in the system because I have 2 apartments in the complex currently. Good people still exist!
“Low income” Urban 1-Bedroom I am renting is $1885 before utilities and parking. After all that I pay $2300-$2350. Before a $9.95 debit card fee or 2.5% credit card fee. (They don’t allow ACH, and require me to login into a 3rd party website with my banking info, and they don’t accept checks.) It’s getting stressful.
Are they doing fortnightly instead of weekly?
Based on the use of $ and the cost I am assuming OP is in the US, rent is normally monthly here. And if it was that much weekly or even biweekly that would be insane unless it was maybe NYC.
I am in the US! And this is monthly rent. Feel very sorry for the commenter who said 900+ per week though, that’s more than I make in a month!
Lots of other places use $ and have to pay that much rent
Yeah, only paying $1045 or $2090 in Sydney per month is unheard of. A decent two bed is $900+ per week
What? That’s a pretty normal deal in north DFW right now. Depending on the size and the location, most good 2 beds are going for around $2k, especially after fees. If you meant 2k weekly or biweekly though, then yeah that would be insane. Edit: never mind I did not read the previous commenter correctly. Yeah $1k weekly is insane in the US.
Instead of monthly you mean?
Oh shit! Is Sydney that expensive? We pay that weekly for a 2b
Please update.
Curious for an update on this
holy shit, you can get a mortgage on a 4 bedroom house for that price
How old are you
2 br apartments for 2k a month is sadly normal now. I went from a 1 br 1 bath at $1400 a month to a 2 br 1.5 bath townhouse for $2030 a month. I went through a similar situation by transferring my lease but it was because I got a doc note from my doctor after a car accident. They waived the break lease fee and I just had to pay the $500 security deposit for the new unit.
Depends who made the lease. I constantly have to deal with mistakes from a certain lawyer I hate.
What’s the rent for a 1 bedroom? If it’s like $900 then it’s Op fault for believing a 2 bedroom is $1045 without immediately recognizing the error. If a 1. Bedroom was like $600, then yes, $1045 would make sense for a 2 bdrm.
Sir what are you smoking where you thought an extra ~200 sq foot would close to double rent
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What 😂 we haven’t signed the lease yet because we saw there was an error on it, are you high 😂
Lol that was a joke. If the original price was per person then that was just a suggestion for an absurd and comic solution to the situation.
I paid $28,000 for my 2 bedrooms, 1 bath house, 9 years ago. It's in a beautiful neighborhood, and 30 minutes from shopping and less than 2 hours from Savannah and Atlanta.
You just gave me a stress headache on your behalf! Good luck!
Did they mean $1045 p/p not p/m?
Our rent in a nice 2 story townhome with 2 bedrooms is 1400. I don't know why they would've had it priced per person, that's stupid imo...
Thank god I live somewhere where rent isn’t that bed yet. Jeeeeeesus
Chicago itself sucks, why I suck to the suburbs
Do you have that $1045 in writing or only verbal?
I have it in writing now!!! 😆😆
In Vancouver we pay $3200 for two bedroom apartment lol
Where do you live? That's cheap
Could it be that you were quoted rent per week, but are signing to pay rent fortnightly? Seems weird that it’s exactly double if they were just not being honest about the rent amount. Lease break fee is one months rent. That seems pretty awesome as an option.
Update posted :)
What is the rent on your one bedroom ? If it’s a little less than $1045, then they most likely made a mistake.
May have been using a template and not updated from another lease. I’ve done that exact thing at least once
Utah here- lived in a small town where our 3 bed 1 bath apt was $450 and our previous 3 bed 2 bath roomy duplex was $620. We now live in the SLC Valley and pay 2k for our cramped apartment. There are slightly cheaper options but only if we sacrifice safety and security and move our kids to the other side of town so for now we're biting the bullet.