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Can anyone suggest a resource for finding a rental other than Craigs List and some local property management agencies? We are having a hard time and need to find something soon. Thanks!
Help Finding A Rental
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September 16, 2021, 5:56 am
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Don’t waste your money. Stay at home with your parents.
Mobile homes are not cheap. Loans are harder to get, interest rates are higher, and terms are shorter. Then you have space rent to worry about. And utilities because the cost of AC in those hot areas is significant.
Condemning people to a precarious and lengthy commute is not good for them or the environment.
Pitmix, Even worse is pretending someone will find “cheap affordable housing” in a premium area that is also subject to very low vacancy and turnover rates, plus assuming someone else will subsidize their in-town housing demands. Creating false expectations is what is unhelpful. Commuting is the name of the game and commuter buses are fact of life, until we get light rail in some form, or a Elon Musk tube transporter. How many commuter bus crashes have we read about? Commutes normal in most scarce and expensive housing areas. Why pretend this is not the case?
Make that buy a cheap manufactured home in a mobile home park- there are a surprising numbers of them both in town and a short commute away. Often owned by the elderly who do pass on which opens vacancies more than rentals which suffer from very low turnovers. We don’t have a housing problem here because we are effectively built-out between the mountains and sea – what we have is what we have with only trickle of new units entering the inventory every year. – We have a turnover problem and a commuting problem. Housing exists and most people on average nationwide spend 40 minutes commuting, which puts one solidly in the cheaper and more outlying communities. Reality check. It has never been easy to find rentals in this area – ever. No matter how many units have been added to the housing inventory. Plus there has always been a huge illegal second unit housing market here – you have to network to find those. You can pick them out when viewing real estate open houses when they had to be temporarily disguised before sale – like finding “planter” seven feet off the tile wall to hide a shower head in the “half bath”. My advice is find something anywhere, and use it as your base to find something better later on. Be here, be vigilant, and be ready to pounce with full deposit, excellent credit and local references. Join local organizations and use them to network. The good places and the good landlords rarely open their listings to the general public. Not when state landlord tenant law gives all the advantage to the tenants and all landlords just got rocked by over a year of anti-eviction ordinances. Check the court filings for unlawful detainer cases which may soon be flooding the rental market, if this eviction moratorium can finally be shaken off and landlords can finally get rid of non-paying or long abusive tenants. Late spring is the better time to look, since SBCC and UCSB students are ending some their own apartment leases at the end of the term. Now is the worst time- competing with thousands of out of town students.
“Sweat non-equity” indeed is what renters offer to property owners. Perhaps the law should indeed give renters a share of the equity that they have created for the property owner.