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Apartment Hunting Tips For College Grades Think of college as a way station on the road to "the real world." Once you've got your diploma in hand, say hello to adulthood and goodbye to dorms and dining halls. It's time to get your own digs and cook your own meals. Here are some things to keep in mind when looking for your first apartment. Know your budget. It's important to know exactly how much you can afford to spend. Tina Pestalozzi, author of Life Skills 101: A Practical Guide to Le ... read more>>   Apartments Are On the Rise Again Vacancies are down, costs are stable, and demand is set to climb Bentall Kennedy, a Canadian real estate company, plans to break ground by June on a 654-unit luxury apartment complex in downtown Seattle. It's a $200 million wager on rising demand for U.S. rental properties--spurred in part by the housing slump that's driving people from their homes. The complex will be the first apartments Bentall Kennedy has built in the city in 10 years, say ... read more>> Bargains For Apartment Seekers If there is an upside to the economic downturn, Pam Lunning found it recently in a Denver newspaper's "for rent" ads: "Three months free rent!" "No lease required!" "Zero deposit!" Overwhelmed with choices, she settled on a one bedroom apartment in a luxury complex just 15 minutes from work a far cry from her previous hour plus drive. The rent on the apartment, which had been freshly painted and recently remodeled with new appliances and carpets ... read more>>   Rental Boom Sparks Another Boom Online rivals battle over renters’ eyeballs Domu.com is making a push to become Chicago’s premier Internet site for apartment listings, an industry dominated by Craigslist and Apartments.com. Chicago-based Schatz Development LLC launched Domu in April 2010, spreading word of the website through ads on bridges and CTA buses and trains. The push appears to be working. In April, Domu recorded more than 1 million page views in a month for the fir ... read more>>

New Apartments Rental articles edition... Rental Properties Popping Up in Suburbs Again After shunning the suburbs for much of the past decade, apartment builders are returning to places like Elmhurst, Orland Park and Evanston, filling the void created by the condo crash. With rents blowing past pre-recession levels, a construction boom that started downtown this year is spreading to suburbia, where it has been difficult to build apartments in recent years due to community resistance and a lack of profitable opportunities. But tho ... read more>> Renters Rights Apartments A house is a home unless, of course, it's an apartment. Then the rules and your rights change. Janet Portman, a lawyer specializing in landlord tenant laws and co-author of Renter's Rights: The Basics (NOLO; $24.99); Every Tenant's Legal Guide (NOLO; $29.99): and Every Landlord's Legal Guide (NOLO: $44.99), says the most basic right of apartment dwellers is having a safe and habitable place to live. Rental lava's vary according to state and some ... read more>> Renters Snap-Up Luxury Units at New Mount Vernon Apartment Building There is strong demand for rental residences at The Horizon at Fleetwood, the new luxury apartment building that recently opened in the Fleetwood section of Mount Vernon. Since opening its leasing office six weeks ago, 25-percent of the one- and two-bedroom apartments had been rented at the 70-unit marquee residence, according to the project’s developers, Petro Real Estate Development and Glenmark Partners LLC. “With our wonderful views, full-s ... read more>> Tulsa Apartment Rental Rates Increase Apartment rental rates rose 1.2 percent in Tulsa through the first half of 2011, according to the CB Richard Ellis of Oklahoma midyear survey released Tuesday. Rates rose 2.4 percent from year-ago marks, according to data compiled by CBRE First Vice President David Z. Forrest and Senior Associate Brian J. Donahue. This increase also came with a decline in new-tenant incentives. Forrest and Donahue estimated only a third of complexes now offered ... read more>>