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June 8, 2020 at 2:30 PM #22923June 8, 2020 at 2:39 PM #818094
CoronitaParticipantShort term rentals: Have you tried AirBnb/Vrbo?
You might be in luck. Because since we are just emerging from covid, there are probably a lot some hosts that would rather rent to someone for a few months.
What is your price range and what are you looking to rent in terms of size. 3 bedroom, 4 bedroom, etc?
June 8, 2020 at 4:32 PM #818102Tin369
ParticipantHaven’t looked at Airbnb and looking for 2-3 bedrooms.
June 8, 2020 at 7:07 PM #818108gzz
ParticipantSan Diego has a big market of school year or “9-month” rentals. The lease goes from Sept to May, and after that you vacate so the owner can do a weekly vacation rental.
So if those are the 9 months you want, you can get a pretty good deal. You can also get part of the summer at the higher weekly rate.
Otherwise, I suggest you just look into people with long term rentals and explain you may need to leave in 9 rather than 12 months and can pay a little extra for this flexibility.
Reasonable price detached house in a good district and near La Jolla? University City or North Clairemont would be my choice.
Depending on where you are coming from, they may seem expensive or cheap, but overall San Diego is more expensive than Delaware. If being very close to La Jolla isn’t needed, all areas along the entire 52 are nice and the highway ends in La Jolla so it remains easy to get to. Prices don’t really go down as you head east, but the houses are larger and newer.
When you budget, keep in mind your heating and AC costs in San Diego will be very low compared to the NE, and are especially low near the coast when winter lows are rarely below 50 and summer highs rarely above 80.
I think San Diego is one of the best places in the world to work from home, and the number of mid-career professionals and small company owners who do this is huge. I think north county probably has more than the city itself and the inner suburbs.
Final point about La Jolla and schools: the local schools there have declining enrollment due to population aging, so it is easy to get your kid into LJ elementary schools if you’re willing to do the drive. The kids will be very welcome because the schools risk closure if student population falls too much, which is what happened in Mission Beach.
June 8, 2020 at 7:11 PM #818109ParticipantAirBNB adds its own charge plus a hotel tax. I don’t think it is a good option beyond 2 months or so. You could stay a few days and if you like it arrange a regular lease, but zillow and craigslist are where I’d start.
June 8, 2020 at 7:18 PM #818110CoronitaParticipantI know that there were a few agents on nextdoor that were placing furnished rentals.
But it just seemed like the furnished rentals were a lot more expensive than if you bought some furniture here and even if you decide not to stay, toss the furniture, especially if you are going to be staying for an entire year.
I wouldn’t use craiglist. It’s scammy these days. I’d sign up for Zillow which gives you access to two other websites.
As far a good elementary school. There’s many of them.
Carmel Valley district (all) , La Jolla, Bird Rock, Rancho Bernardo (Chapperal), 4S ranch. Others can chime in as well as I’m sure there’s some good ones in Carlsbad, Poway, and other places too.Cooling costs go way down the closer you are to the ocean. I don’t run my AC most of the time.
As far as looking for a job, depending on what you do, you might have better opportunity finding a job in the Bay Area and working remotely from san diego.
June 8, 2020 at 11:47 PM #818123FlyerInHi
Guest[quote=gzz]AirBNB adds its own charge plus a hotel tax. I don’t think it is a good option beyond 2 months or so. You could stay a few days and if you like it arrange a regular lease, but zillow and craigslist are where I’d start.[/quote]
There are no hotel taxes on Airbnb bookings over 30 days.
The OP may want to book 30 days then negotiate an extension if he likes the house.Facebook marketplace is another good place to look.
June 9, 2020 at 12:44 AM #818125CoronitaParticipantOP, if you care about schools, you can look up the schools in question for how well or not so well on the CAASP testing
. CAASP testing was suspended this year, but results from last year are availablehttps://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/
https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/Search.
June 9, 2020 at 12:01 PM #818138ParticipantAirBNB still seems bad for a multi month rental. You have to find a place that takes bookings 9 months in advance but doesn’t have a single booking in your slot. And possibly prepay the whole time.
June 9, 2020 at 1:18 PM #818139Guest[quote=gzz]AirBNB still seems bad for a multi month rental. You have to find a place that takes bookings 9 months in advance but doesn’t have a single booking in your slot. And possibly prepay the whole time.[/quote]
My understanding is that the OP is ready to move now.
With Airbnb, even though you book for multi months, you pay one month at a time. There is 12% booking (varies) that the tenant pays and a 3% transaction fee charged to the landlord.
It’s some risk for the landlord because there’s always risk that Airbnb cannot collect from the tenant each month. So the landlord should draw up a month to month lease and require IDs of all the residents. The landlord may also ask the Airbnb tenants to qualify for the rent.
June 9, 2020 at 3:00 PM #818142ParticipantIs the $2500-$3000+ the going rate for a 2 bedroom apartment.
Should I go through apartments.com and trust the reviews.I saw one in La Jolla which has good ratings but looks too small. The other was is called torreyhill gardens apartment or something looks a bit bigger and newer.
Not seeing much Airbnb in Thelma Jolla area in the price range when I filtered for monthly rental and 2 bed min.
Ideally, would love a townhouse or something with a bit more room over an apartment.
As far as schools go – I guess we will have to have a SD address can we give our family address until we get our own place. There are so many moving parts to this.
Do I have to get a CA license?
June 9, 2020 at 4:45 PM #818144ParticipantTin, those large complexes are overpriced in my opinion. They focus on a younger market, people with bad credit, and people who can’t pay the large security deposit small landlords tend to require.
Here’s a renovated 3/2 house with yard in north clairemont for under 3k.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4631-Conrad-Ave-San-Diego-CA-92117/2082981508_zpid/
Might not be that one, but if you can pay 3k and are willing to put some effort into it, you can get a detached house reasonably close to La Jolla.
UC is even closer to La Jolla and sometimes included as part of it. While the prices are high, the lots are usually big and houses big and updated. $3600 4-bed:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4750-Pauling-Ave-San-Diego-CA-92122/16843887_zpid/
June 9, 2020 at 5:11 PM #818145CoronitaParticipant[quote=gzz]Tin, those large complexes are overpriced in my opinion. They focus on a younger market, people with bad credit, and people who can’t pay the large security deposit small landlords tend to require.
Here’s a renovated 3/2 house with yard in north clairemont for under 3k.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4631-Conrad-Ave-San-Diego-CA-92117/2082981508_zpid/
Might not be that one, but if you can pay 3k and are willing to put some effort into it, you can get a detached house reasonably close to La Jolla.
UC is even closer to La Jolla and sometimes included as part of it. While the prices are high, the lots are usually big and houses big and updated. $3600 4-bed:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4750-Pauling-Ave-San-Diego-CA-92122/16843887_zpid/%5B/quote%5D
$10 says he won’t like the elementary school. And since it’s $3000/month, that leaves out the option to send his kid(s) to a private school. Add $100/month for water bill he will be on the hook for paying himself.
It usually boils down to that when there’s a kid(s) involved.
Hawthorne Elementary
https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-diego/6157-Hawthorne-Elementary-School/Worst performing Carmel Valley Elementary School
https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-diego/12213-Torrey-Hills-School/Best performing Carmel Valley Elementary Schools
https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-diego/17442-Ocean-Air-School/Second best performing Carmel Valley School
https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-diego/11832-Sage-Canyon-School/Best performing Solana Elementary School serving Carmel Valley residence in that corridor where there’s a lot of condos/townhomes
https://www.greatschools.org/california/san-diego/13714-Solana-Pacific-Elementary-School/Margin of difference between 4 schools above. Very small. Almost inconsequential.
Really good school in Rancho Bernardo, arguably better than Carmel Valley school
https://www.greatschools.org/california/poway/6030-Chaparral-Elementary-School/Really good school in LJ/BirdRock, arguably better than Carmel Valley
https://www.greatschools.org/california/la-jolla/6105-Bird-Rock-Elementary-School/A lot of parents would rather temporarily live in a smaller place in a better school district than a larger place elsewhere. After all, it’s temporary housing. That’s why Carmel Valley makes a lousy rental markets. Many people that rent in carmel valley don’t stay renters a very long time. They are just passing time to home ownership or deciding whether to stay permanently.
June 9, 2020 at 5:15 PM #818143CoronitaParticipant[quote=Tin369]Is the $2500-$3000+ the going rate for a 2 bedroom apartment.
Should I go through apartments.com and trust the reviews.I saw one in La Jolla which has good ratings but looks too small. The other was is called torreyhill gardens apartment or something looks a bit bigger and newer.
Not seeing much Airbnb in Thelma Jolla area in the price range when I filtered for monthly rental and 2 bed min.
Ideally, would love a townhouse or something with a bit more room over an apartment.
As far as schools go – I guess we will have to have a SD address can we give our family address until we get our own place. There are so many moving parts to this.
Do I have to get a CA license?[/quote]
Please don’t rent in Torrey Gardens. Trust me on that one. Besides being expensive, a lot of issues in that complex. Here’s just a subset reported by people.
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I removed the names of the actual people that posted. And you can ignore the posts from the Karen’s that complain about suspicious tall men that are black, brown, yellow, etc or the complaints about dog owners not picking up after their dog poop (yeah that’s annoying, but still).The one that’s of more concerning are the reports of car break ins, cars stolen, bikes stolen, motorcycles stolen, and other things like smell, psycho neighbors yelling and screaming in the middle of the night. And the management company not really doing anything about it. Mind you, this is in a neighborhood that is supposedly really safe and secure. But for some reason, this particular complex has an unusually high rate of incidences well above the average of everything else in Carmel Valley. I think it’s because of the way they designed it and underground parking, lax in security. It’s pretty easy to steal a car from underground without anyone noticing…It’s pretty funny because if you lived in that complex, you’d probably think Carmel Valley is in the middle of a riot zone, lol.
Friends don’t let friends smoke crack.
Friends don’t let friends stay in Torrey Gardens.If you REALLLY want to live around this area and want to stay in a corporate owned housing, I’d say the better one is Torrey Villas. At least it’s gated and the amenities is much better.
https://www.irvinecompanyapartments.com/lp/san-diego.html
Psss, I heard that existing tenants were given a smashing “deal” to renew their 1 year leases early for 2/2’s at a ridiculously good $3000/month if the renewed 3 months earlier then when there leases were up. Translation: they are freaking out that people are not going to renew and rent prices possibly coming down…..So you might be able to negotiate something better..
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The common consensus is $3000 for 2/2 right now is too high.
You really shouldn’t make a housing decision without seeing things in person. Imho.
BTW: the reference to Altura in the post above is here:
https://www.alturacarmelvalley.com/
You could also try these apartments in the monstrosity called One Paseo. I hear they are having a boatload of issues finding tenants. So they too can probably cut you a deal…
Carmel Valley isn’t the only place that is good to live in. There’s plenty of other great places for the same money or less. Most people pick carmel valley due to close proximity to the tech corridor in Sorrento Valley, with arguably a good public school. But imho, the public schools are way overrated. For you, since you are working from home, you don’t really need to pay the premium to be close to the tech hub.
You don’t need a CA license right away, in fact I would not register your cars for an entire year if you can. Cheaper to keep it registered out of state.
This also might help:
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/92130_rb/This townhome is pretty nice and in a nice neighborhood. I know because I use to own one in this complex. Sorry that it’s listed now at $3400/month. Had I known I could rent it at this price, I probably would have wanted to keep it.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12545-El-Camino-Real-UNIT-D-San-Diego-CA-92130/16778124_zpid/This one is decent
https://www.zillow.com/b/3754-mykonos-ln-san-diego-ca-5j48QT/This one is a 2/3 below $3000/month
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3754-Mykonos-Ln-UNIT-102-San-Diego-CA-92130/66111998_zpid/Torrey Ridge is ok, but it’s really close to high voltage power lines. Some people don’t care. I do…
https://www.zillow.com/b/torrey-ridge-apartment-homes-san-diego-ca-5ZXgv2/
Pell place is ok as a rental (I wouldn’t own one. Lots of builder annoying defects that hopefully they fixed)
https://www.zillow.com/b/carmel-valley-neighborhood-san-diego-ca-5Xm3qP/
Elysian is ok too.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12602-Carmel-Country-Rd-UNIT-8-San-Diego-CA-92130/16768396_zpid/Adulucia is ok too.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3740-Mykonos-Ln-San-Diego-CA-92130/2079233537_zpid/There’s also . Signature Point. I don’t know about them though. They are in the older part of Carmel Valley, which I personally prefer.
https://www.zillow.com/b/signature-point-san-diego-ca-BMVbSs/
There, I just did most of your rental research for you for 92130. Other people can chime in in the UTC/LJ area, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, 4S Ranch.
If you specifically want to look in 92130 and want subjective opinion on 92130 rentals, feel free to PM me or ask here. As far as deciding between 92130 or other places, I won’t weigh in on that.
One thing to keep in mind also is that if you rent in a condo/apartment/townhome, your water/trash is generally included. If you rent a SFH elsewhere, usually you are responsible for all the utilities, and you are also responsible for the utilities for upkeeping lawns/vegetation/etc. So if you do decide to rent a SFH, make sure the house in question has a lot of a low maintenance drought resistant vegetation that doesn’t require a lot of water on your dime. A typical water/sewage bill even with minimal usage can easily be about $80-100/month, partly becaue of all the fixed non-usage charges San Diego charges for water.
June 9, 2020 at 5:34 PM #818148ParticipantI don’t think early elementary school it makes any difference to be in a rich versus upper middle class district. They’ll be finger-painting and ABCing the same either way. Maybe by high school the difference in AP classes and peer influence will make that difference important.
And socially, do you want to be the poorest kid in CV or have a background similar to peers? Parents of small tots tend to socialize with their playmates.
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