[quote=utcsox][quote=AN][quote=spdrun]A quick perusal of Craigslist yields very few one bedrooms offered in Carlsbad for over $1600. Most are below $1500. Where are they getting an average of $1716? Are they only surveying large landlords?[/quote]
Apartments. They move the market, not the small time landlords.[/quote]
The small-time landlords will take cues from the large apartment complex and raise its price accordingly.[/quote]
Also, a lot of craigslist postings aren’t “real”. A lot of the posts are “feeler” posts to test how much rent one can push, starting with a low price, etc. But if you actually tried to contact the person, you’ll never hear back from them, ever. I know, because I do it all the time. It allows me to gauge at a given price point, at a particular season in the year, how many responses I can anticipate getting. I should actually put this into a spreadsheet and graph it out in my interested areas, because it’s a pretty interesting experiment. And since I do it, I’m sure I’m not the only one doing it, for the same reasons.
