Vrudny, I think your rent sounds pretty good. I just recently moved and did a LOT of searching around for places along the 15 and 56. Three bedrooms in Rancho Bernardo were a minimum of $1400-1500, and that was for pretty ugly and small places. Decent places were about $1600-1800. Getting into nicer areas like Torrey Highlands or Carmel Valley, you can’t touch a three bedroom for below $2000.

To give you an idea, I consider myself very lucky to have found a 3BR 2.5BA 1800 sqft. new townhouse in Torrey Highlands (off the 56 at Camino Del Sur) for $2000/mo. I think it should be another $400-500 more per month. If this is within your price range, you should take a look around the area. There’s a number of places for rent by me (behind the Albertson’s shopping center).

BTW, I’d like to point out that I think rents are more expensive than they should be, but that’s the way things are right now. People are trying to cut their monthly losses as much as possible.