Posted on 05/06/2018 1:23:31 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
This Is How Much it Costs to Rent a One-Bedroom Apartment in 50 Major U.S. Cities
It won't come as a shock that the cost of rent can be steep in cities such as New York and San Francisco. After all, a monthly bill in the $2,000$4,000 range isn't unusual in those locations. But have you ever considered how much it would cost to live in a one-bedroom apartment in Anchorage, Alaska?
Earlier this week, personal finance site GOBankingRates.com released a study on the median costs of rent for one-bedroom apartments in 50 major U.S. cities. It also includes data on factors such as the apartments' average square footage, monthly utility costs and walkability. Besides offering an interesting glimpse into how other renters live across the country, the info is helpful for those looking to make a move.
Read on to find out where your city or, perhaps, the next city you'll call home falls on the list of cheapest to most expensive rent. You might be surprised: The median rent for all 50 cities falls at $1,234.43 (though, as you'll see, costs vary greatly from city to city).
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Wow that is incredible. THREE bedrooms? Wow, what is the $1100 for, mortgage and taxes? My brother still lives in New York city as does my cousin being the lunatics they are and my brother pays $2700 a month for a tiny one bedroom and my cousin $3400 RENT for pretty much the same size place but that’s in Manhattan. They’re crazy, that’s money burned.
Houses and guns are the only things you can use and have them appreciate in value.
Mortgage plus lot rent. There are no property taxes as I’m a disabled veteran.
On $400 a months income, you could buy a 3 bedroom house for $12,000 in the late 50’s. On $4,000 a month income, try finding a house for $120,000 today, which if wages kept up with housing costs, that should be the average.
If they wanted to, the homeless problem can be wiped out overnight, by getting rid of zoning laws, anti-landlord laws, and NIMBYism.
Entrepreneurs will step up and build affordable housing units such as furnished motel-sized rooms complete with a kitchenette and shower.
And local governments should stop subsidizing the problem, like NYC ridiculous idea of setting up stations for drug abusers.
If they wanted to, the homeless problem can be wiped out overnight, by getting rid of zoning laws, anti-landlord laws, and NIMBYism.
Entrepreneurs will step up and build affordable housing units such as furnished motel-sized rooms complete with a kitchenette and shower.
And local governments should stop subsidizing the problem, like NYC ridiculous idea of setting up stations for drug abusers.
I’m in central California which is much cheaper than the big blue cities. My home is about 2,200sf, RV parking, pool, 4br, 2ba. Had it built in 2001, it’s worth about $250K and I owe < $85K. It would rent for about $1,500 if I decided to rent it. Nice one bedroom apts are $600/mo.
BTW, I rarely see police patrols, but we also don’t have much crime.
Wait until they have to add 30,000 to all new homes for the solar panels. Nobody will be able to buy a home.
Wichita, Kansas: $470
Wow. I paid $470 for room to rent in San Francisco in 1990. I should move to Kansas.
Irvine, CA. $2080 for 1 BR, 734 s.f. apartment.
Is that liberal democrat math?
Wow - what’s really cheap. Are there jobs in your neck of the woods as well?
I always loved California especially the weather.
I live out on the prairie in North Dakota. Four bedroom, two bath house, two barns, corrals, huge shop, pasture, pond and forty four acres of prime hunting property. My mortgage is $1,300/month.
[We own a brand-new 3 bedroom/2 bath manufactured home in a Dallas suburb and total costs are $1,100 a month.]
Full basement?
[I live out on the prairie in North Dakota. Four bedroom, two bath house, two barns, corrals, huge shop, pasture, pond and forty four acres of prime hunting property. My mortgage is $1,300/month.]
And a great shooting range I’ll bet.
That’s God’s country.
Incredible. That’s less than my first apartment in 1986 in New york city.
Don’t mistake coastal cities for all CA. I live in Sacramento, right in the middle of the list and about a quarter of rents in SF. Of course SF is a special situation. It’s about 49 square miles and every inch was built on long ago. No new housing without tearing old down. The rest of the Bay Area nearly as bad, because any unbuilt land is “green-belted” and can’t be built on. Here there’s plenty of room to build, at least in the surrounding burbs.
Houses typically don’t have basements here.
FYI... this article is from June 2016, almost three years ago
-PJ
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Check your math, FRiend ... or you have a time machine.
-PJ
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