Need help finding an apartment downtown

[University City Renter]

Any advice on finding an apartment downtown (San Diego) to rent? I’ve tried online sites, tried calling some realtors, Craigslist, etc. The online sites just don’t have anything that is not outrageously expensive. The realtors sound like they are only interested in showing you places that they own. Craigslist – either ridiculously expensive or sounds suspicious.

Tell me if you believe this: 2B/2B, 900 sq. ft., 3 parking spaces (this is a red flag for me), on Park Blvd in East Village for $1,000/mo. No phone number but via e-mail he is out of the country. Not that I’m against people who have trouble speaking English but his is borderline just getting by. For that price, if for real, this is a steal, but….Gave me the address though and told me to go take a look and get back to him. All the others from Craigslist that I tried, I’m convinced are scams. Anyone have good/bad experiences with Craigslist?

I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.

[cv2]

[quote=University City Renter]
I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.
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Is it condo, condo conversion or apartments? I would get out of there as fast as I can. Why they have the nerve to raise rent?

[cv2]

[quote=University City Renter]
I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.
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Is it condo, condo conversion or apartments? I would get out of there as fast as I can. Why they have the nerve to raise rent?

[cv2]

[quote=University City Renter]
I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.
[/quote]
Is it condo, condo conversion or apartments? I would get out of there as fast as I can. Why they have the nerve to raise rent?

[cv2]

[quote=University City Renter]
I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.
[/quote]
Is it condo, condo conversion or apartments? I would get out of there as fast as I can. Why they have the nerve to raise rent?

[cv2]

[quote=University City Renter]
I can’t believe they jacked our rent up so high in UTC. $1270 for a 1B1B maybe 700 sq.ft. apartment and they can’t even fill the building with tenants. I moved in here 3 years ago and everything was fairly nice. Then….I went almost 2 weeks without hot water last year. We have 2 pools but nobody is ever in them because they are too cheap to heat the water so it is freezing cold. There are 4 ways to get into my building, 2 of them have door hinges but no doors, one has a door but does not lock and is missing the door handle, the final one has a door handle but does not lock. The gates are broken more often than they work. Guess whose attention this brought, thieves. The intercom hasn’t worked for more than 2 years. Enough is enough, I’m moving out.
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Is it condo, condo conversion or apartments? I would get out of there as fast as I can. Why they have the nerve to raise rent?

[University City Renter]

It’s just a regular apartment, as far as I know they have never been condos. One thing that is against us is probably 90 % of the tenants are college students and Mom and Dad are paying the rent or their just taking out student loans to pay for living expenses and not worrying about it. Most don’t care what the rent is, so they just pay whatever is asked and they don’t care about the apartment or surroundings.

I can’t believe some of the stuff the management tries to pull. One time they put fliers on everyone’s door strongly suggesting everyone mail in you rent to this office in N. County instead of in the drop box at the office. They did this about 10 times, so fine I started mailing our rent in. About 6 months later, I get a letter telling me my rent was late and had to pay a $50 fine. I’ve never been late before, and I always sent it in 6-7 days before the 1st. I went to the office and essentially said, “How do I know your not lying?” Think about it, randomly choose 10 people = additional $500/month profit and there is no way to prove if they did or didn’t get it on time.

[University City Renter]

It’s just a regular apartment, as far as I know they have never been condos. One thing that is against us is probably 90 % of the tenants are college students and Mom and Dad are paying the rent or their just taking out student loans to pay for living expenses and not worrying about it. Most don’t care what the rent is, so they just pay whatever is asked and they don’t care about the apartment or surroundings.

I can’t believe some of the stuff the management tries to pull. One time they put fliers on everyone’s door strongly suggesting everyone mail in you rent to this office in N. County instead of in the drop box at the office. They did this about 10 times, so fine I started mailing our rent in. About 6 months later, I get a letter telling me my rent was late and had to pay a $50 fine. I’ve never been late before, and I always sent it in 6-7 days before the 1st. I went to the office and essentially said, “How do I know your not lying?” Think about it, randomly choose 10 people = additional $500/month profit and there is no way to prove if they did or didn’t get it on time.

[University City Renter]

It’s just a regular apartment, as far as I know they have never been condos. One thing that is against us is probably 90 % of the tenants are college students and Mom and Dad are paying the rent or their just taking out student loans to pay for living expenses and not worrying about it. Most don’t care what the rent is, so they just pay whatever is asked and they don’t care about the apartment or surroundings.

I can’t believe some of the stuff the management tries to pull. One time they put fliers on everyone’s door strongly suggesting everyone mail in you rent to this office in N. County instead of in the drop box at the office. They did this about 10 times, so fine I started mailing our rent in. About 6 months later, I get a letter telling me my rent was late and had to pay a $50 fine. I’ve never been late before, and I always sent it in 6-7 days before the 1st. I went to the office and essentially said, “How do I know your not lying?” Think about it, randomly choose 10 people = additional $500/month profit and there is no way to prove if they did or didn’t get it on time.

[University City Renter]

It’s just a regular apartment, as far as I know they have never been condos. One thing that is against us is probably 90 % of the tenants are college students and Mom and Dad are paying the rent or their just taking out student loans to pay for living expenses and not worrying about it. Most don’t care what the rent is, so they just pay whatever is asked and they don’t care about the apartment or surroundings.

I can’t believe some of the stuff the management tries to pull. One time they put fliers on everyone’s door strongly suggesting everyone mail in you rent to this office in N. County instead of in the drop box at the office. They did this about 10 times, so fine I started mailing our rent in. About 6 months later, I get a letter telling me my rent was late and had to pay a $50 fine. I’ve never been late before, and I always sent it in 6-7 days before the 1st. I went to the office and essentially said, “How do I know your not lying?” Think about it, randomly choose 10 people = additional $500/month profit and there is no way to prove if they did or didn’t get it on time.

[University City Renter]

It’s just a regular apartment, as far as I know they have never been condos. One thing that is against us is probably 90 % of the tenants are college students and Mom and Dad are paying the rent or their just taking out student loans to pay for living expenses and not worrying about it. Most don’t care what the rent is, so they just pay whatever is asked and they don’t care about the apartment or surroundings.

I can’t believe some of the stuff the management tries to pull. One time they put fliers on everyone’s door strongly suggesting everyone mail in you rent to this office in N. County instead of in the drop box at the office. They did this about 10 times, so fine I started mailing our rent in. About 6 months later, I get a letter telling me my rent was late and had to pay a $50 fine. I’ve never been late before, and I always sent it in 6-7 days before the 1st. I went to the office and essentially said, “How do I know your not lying?” Think about it, randomly choose 10 people = additional $500/month profit and there is no way to prove if they did or didn’t get it on time.

[surveyor]

scam!

The East Village place sounds like a scam. There was a similar scam going for a 4S Ranch foreclosed home awhile back. Be sure to deal with local people only – they should be willing to meet with you at the place and do the full “sell” – showing you the features of the place and letting you walk around the place. Be careful of the other scam as well – somebody pretends that this rental is theirs, and asks you for the deposit and first month’s rent, but later on you find out that person does not own the property. There were a few of these scams being done around last year, they may have popped up this year again.

To prevent such scams, you can ask for proof of ownership of the property and also conduct several visits at different times in order to establish that the property manager/landlord is authorized to work for that property.

As for craigslist, I’ve been using it pretty well to advertise my vacancies.

[surveyor]

scam!

The East Village place sounds like a scam. There was a similar scam going for a 4S Ranch foreclosed home awhile back. Be sure to deal with local people only – they should be willing to meet with you at the place and do the full “sell” – showing you the features of the place and letting you walk around the place. Be careful of the other scam as well – somebody pretends that this rental is theirs, and asks you for the deposit and first month’s rent, but later on you find out that person does not own the property. There were a few of these scams being done around last year, they may have popped up this year again.

To prevent such scams, you can ask for proof of ownership of the property and also conduct several visits at different times in order to establish that the property manager/landlord is authorized to work for that property.

As for craigslist, I’ve been using it pretty well to advertise my vacancies.

[surveyor]

scam!

The East Village place sounds like a scam. There was a similar scam going for a 4S Ranch foreclosed home awhile back. Be sure to deal with local people only – they should be willing to meet with you at the place and do the full “sell” – showing you the features of the place and letting you walk around the place. Be careful of the other scam as well – somebody pretends that this rental is theirs, and asks you for the deposit and first month’s rent, but later on you find out that person does not own the property. There were a few of these scams being done around last year, they may have popped up this year again.

To prevent such scams, you can ask for proof of ownership of the property and also conduct several visits at different times in order to establish that the property manager/landlord is authorized to work for that property.

As for craigslist, I’ve been using it pretty well to advertise my vacancies.

[surveyor]

scam!

The East Village place sounds like a scam. There was a similar scam going for a 4S Ranch foreclosed home awhile back. Be sure to deal with local people only – they should be willing to meet with you at the place and do the full “sell” – showing you the features of the place and letting you walk around the place. Be careful of the other scam as well – somebody pretends that this rental is theirs, and asks you for the deposit and first month’s rent, but later on you find out that person does not own the property. There were a few of these scams being done around last year, they may have popped up this year again.

To prevent such scams, you can ask for proof of ownership of the property and also conduct several visits at different times in order to establish that the property manager/landlord is authorized to work for that property.

As for craigslist, I’ve been using it pretty well to advertise my vacancies.

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