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Five tips to make your life easier when moving
Is there anything fun about moving? Some would say no cause packing your entire life in a few bags can be rather stressful; yet it’s all in the approach; you can turn it into an enjoyable, uneventful experience with some proper planning and rigorous organization. Take it from someone who’s changed places eleven times so [...]
Apartment \ Renting \ San Francisco \ Seattle \ Washington DC
Thinking of moving? Great cities just for you
If you’re an apartment renter, you’ve already committed to the apartment rental lifestyle and the conveniences it brings. You probably don’t plan to give it up for the anxiety and chaos of home ownership anytime soon. But you might consider moving – and there are many great cities across the country with excellent opportunity knocking, [...]
Apartment \ Los Angeles \ Real estate \ Renting
Advice for first-time renters in LA
If you’re planning on renting a property in LA, you’d better get ready for a serious adventure because the city offers an extensive range of housing options. And since it’s not quite prime time to buy a house, most people turn to renting these days so you’ll have plenty of competition. The best way to [...]
Apartment \ Home Improvement \ Interior design
Budget-friendly decorating ideas for a cozy home
Both challenging and rewarding, decorating an apartment on a tight budget truly does call for ingenuity. You’ll have to be twice as agile and have an eye for bargains, have a lot of time on your hands to browse antique stores for unique items, and if you’re a nature lover, draw inspiration from the outdoors. [...]
Apartment \ Real estate \ San Francisco
San Francisco rents level off in 4Q ’13
The headline is certainly encouraging but it begs the question: is it too late to matter? With San Francisco rents among the highest in the nation, leveling off still means that living in the city is out of reach for most people who are not willing to make significant compromises that include a limited selection [...]
Green ways to purify the air in your apartment
As the weather cools down, we are less likely to open the windows of our apartments. Even in the warmer months, smoking neighbors and the perpetual buzz of landscaping crews in the complex might dissuade us from letting in fresh air. Lack of circulation can cause the air to feel stuffy. It also traps in [...]
Apartment \ Phoenix Arizona \ Real estate \ Renting
Phoenix’ 2013 rental real estate forecast
2012 was a good year to be a Phoenix apartment renter. There were bargain deals to be had, selection of units was plentiful around the Valley, and property managers were motivated to make you happy. In 2013, expect things to shift a bit. With the real estate market continuing to improve, it will be a [...]
Apartment \ Phoenix \ Real estate \ Renting
Phoenix’ 2013 rental real estate forecast
2012 was a good year to be a Phoenix apartment renter. There were bargain deals to be had, selection of units was plentiful around the Valley, and property managers were motivated to make you happy. In 2013, expect things to shift a bit. With the real estate market continuing to improve, it will be a [...]
Apartment \ Rental \ Renting \ San Francisco \ San Francisco Bay Area
The sasquatch of Cali: great rentals in San Francisco for about a grand
They’re rare. They’re remarkable. But they do exist. Find great apartments for rent in San Francisco that are reasonably priced and in a great location. The San Francisco rental market has been at the heart or many local woes. There just aren’t enough properties to go around, it seems, and the competition has driven prices [...]
Apartment \ Real estate \ Renting \ San Francisco
Renting in San Francisco, 2013 edition
Welcome to another wildly exciting year of rental real estate in San Francisco. The good news is that some new apartment inventory will be entering the marketplace this year. The bad news is that it will be just as expensive as the existing housing stock, and rental rates overall will likely continue to increase in [...]
Apartment \ Philadelphia \ Renting
Why more Philly college students may be renting in private homes
Philadelphia has been named one of the top cities for investors who want to own rental property in a college town, meaning that more private residences will enter the market as Philadelphia student rentals this year. With a median price of $234,900 and average mortgage payments of $870, the potential for investors to make money [...]
Apartment \ second hand smoke \ Smoking ban \ smoking disclosure
Smoking disclosure proposed for SF apartments
There’s good news for those of us allergy sufferers who don’t want to suffer from the ghosts of cigarette smokers past – even long after they have vacated an apartment, traces of second hand smoke can be left behind. A new city ordinance proposed last month would require that landlords disclose to prospective tenants whether [...]
Apartment \ Real estate \ Renting \ San Francisco
Year in review: San Francisco rental real estate
It’s pretty easy to summarize the year San Francisco had in real estate during 2012: Things were going gangbusters, like it was the late 1990s all over again. If you had to rent an apartment or wanted to buy a home, you had to prepare to enter the mosh pit and do battle against your [...]
Apartment \ Christmas \ Interior design
Christmas décor for small apartments
Christmas decorating – not an easy task, if you live in a tiny apartment, but not an impossible one, either. The first thing to watch out for? Overcrowding the space. Here are a few tips. Start with hanging light strings around your windows. These take up very minimal space and partially make up for your [...]
220 square feet \ Apartment \ micro units \ San Francisco
Get ready to squeeze into a shoebox: Tiny apartments get the go-ahead in SF
San Francisco, if you felt a collective tightening around your waistband late last month, it wasn’t the result of all the holiday sugar you’ve been consuming at the office (knock that off, by the way). Rather, we all just got squeezed into smaller living quarters. The city has approved a limited number of apartments to [...]
Apartment \ Part-time \ saving
4 ways to scavenge for dollars at your apartment
Looking for a more effective way to find money at your apartment that doesn’t involve searching under the couch cushions for spare change? Here are a few ideas for saving that might seem simple, but can add up to big bucks if you consistently make them part of your life. Your apartment has a fitness [...]
Apartment \ Home and Garden \ patio furniture deals \ San Francisco \ Shopping
Get deals on summer outdoor home items right…NOW
Winter shopping may just make your spring and summer in your Bay Are apartment a bit more dandy. In winter, all we tend to think about is cold: weatherizing our apartments, holiday craziness, and new hot beverages to keep us from turning into icicles. What we aren’t thinking about, though, could be costing us money. [...]
Apartment \ Furniture \ Interior design
Decorate smarter for a stylish apartment
When you live as a renter you know that you and all of your stuff will hit the road sooner or later. This ultimately means that you need to be flexible with how you arrange your furniture and décor. It’s not the life of nomad of course, but there certainly is a fine line between [...]
Apartment \ Furniture \ minimalist design \ San Francisco \ small apartment decor
Minimalist, multifunction decor for mini apartments
Learn to live large in small spaces. Micro apartments are all the rage, it seems, particularly in rental-starved markets like San Francisco and DC.But when it comes to decorating, these spaces often appear cramped and busy. Logically, a lot has to fit in a little space and a little has to serve a lot of [...]
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Update your rental bathroom – The basics
Just because you rent absolutely does not mean that you have to settle with an ugly apartment. Take a look around and consider, “if I owned this place, what would I change?” Chances are you would come up with a pretty hefty list of things you would like to change both aesthetically as well as [...]
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