Setting Up Utilities: What They Check, and What They Can Hold
You have the keys, a move-in date, and a list. Setting up utilities looks like the smallest thing on it:
Before You Sign: The Lease Clauses That Should Make You Pause
The lease shows up at the least useful possible moment. You have been approved, the unit is yours if you
Apartment Fees: What the Advertised Rent Leaves Out, and What to Ask Before You Pay
The number on an apartment listing is not always the number you pay. Apartment fees are the difference: a listing
What to Check at an Apartment Viewing — and What Should Make You Walk Away
Search for what to check at an apartment viewing and you will be handed a list of thirty-three things. Nobody
Renting With Thin Credit or No Rental History: What to Show Instead
The application has a field for your current landlord, and you have never had one. Or it runs a credit
Rental Listing Scams: What to Check Before You Send Money
The listing is perfect. Cheaper than everything else you have looked at, cats allowed, and photos full of the kind
The First Apartment Guide
A first apartment is not one decision. It is a chain of them — what you can afford, what you
Renter-Friendly Upgrades: Read the Instructions and the Law
Peel-and-stick wallpaper ships with a warning that collides head-on with how renting works. York Wallcoverings, in its own installation instructions:
Renter-Friendly Storage That Works in a Small Apartment
A small apartment does not have a storage problem. It has a volume problem wearing a storage problem’s clothes. Shelves,
How to Get Your Security Deposit Back When a Landlord Keeps It
The deposit is your money. You handed it over before you had keys, and it stays yours unless your landlord