How are some people renting for 1300 in riverside while others are renting 1300 in carlsbad??? That’s too bizarre.
Dr. Kevin, I think it is too. 🙂 We’ve been living at this complex since 2004, when we originally rented a 1 bd/1ba 715 sq. ft. for $890 or something like that. In Feb. 2007 (still in the same 1 bd. 1 ba., but then at $1090), we decided we needed to upgrade to a 2 bd (we were just really feeling cramped).
I’m tellin ya, we looked at every complex in Riverside and Moreno Valley that didn’t look like the cops visited it every night, and we found that our complex was the best deal around (i.e. lowest rent in a decent complex). The thing is, most of the older complexes with the more reasonable rents have fallen into disrepair, and are usually in VERY questionable neighborhoods. Newer complexes are obviously newer and are generally in better shape, but the rent at these newer complexes for a 2bd starts at at least $1400. There is one particular complex called diRenzo whose rents start at $1550.
So, we stayed at our complex, but moved up to the 2bd/1.5ba model, 975 sq ft., $1,285 (I rounded up in my earlier post). And we only got the rent at $1,285 because they were running a special at the time (which strangely all the other complexes were doing too), the rent would have normally been $1325. And soon our rent will be going up by $50 because they are going to install washers/dryers in each unit (which I am happy for, but $50 seems high).
