Rental Help- Seriously how can they justify these prices
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Anonymous
What a shithole. |
Anonymous
| I'd keep looking in Brookland, but if you can't find anything, look in Petworth, it's not too hard to cross over via Harewood/Taylor or drop down towards Irving if you have a car. Also Woodridge has a lot of little bungalows and Fort Totten - you'd have the option of taking the red line. |
Anonymous
| I own a house in Petworth and they can justify these prices because they have to pay a mortgage and pay for maintenance and vacancies between turnovers. The bank don't care. |
Anonymous
The justification for the prices is not defined by the cost to the seller, but by the market. It doesn't matter if you have an $8K mortgage. If there are more landlords willing to rent for less than there are renters, then no way in hell would you get $8K. |
Anonymous
| I paid $1,000 a month for a one bedroom basement apartment in DuPont Circle in 1987 (and I was renting from a friend). DuPont was sketchier then (there were three murders within a couple blocks of my apartment in a three month period that year). Considering just general inflation, not to mention the run up in real estate prices around here, these rents don't sound that outrageous to me. |
Anonymous
MANY places around the Appalachia are WAYYYY cheaper. |
Anonymous
beggars can't be choosers.. |