I'm looking for townhouse this fall.

[Supreme Admiral]

Hey guys,

Earlier this week, I decided to starting looking for a place to live to living alone myself with my cats this fall. It was much easier decision I’ve ever made in my life ever since you guys told me a few months ago about being living on my own, live anywhere I wants to.

So begun this week, I’ve been looking for a good price that can’t be unbeatable, I thought that the apartments would do a good thing for me, but I changed my mind about apartments, but go for townhouse this time around. My jaws was dropping on the floor after viewing the price! I don’t know if it’s real or not, I’m going to let you decide that.

The prices is between 195-199 dollars per month for my rent. Is it good thing for me to start that? It’s three bedroom, two bathroom. I figured that I should take it, because my family from England will be coming here to visiting us, there won’t be more rooms for them to sleeping around, so I will offer that rooms for them.

Guys, should I trust that price or not? I’m worried that I’m being fooled by this site.

Speaking of townhouse, I’m very nervous about living alone for the first time ever, because there’s no one for me to discuss with for that interesting topic for us to discussing about. I’m worried that I won’t be survive through one day enough already, so how can I overcome that fear of living alone? My cats will be accompany me in my new home, but not good enough for that isloation, I need somebody to talks to.

I’m hoping that you’ll be able to help me to overcome that fear of living alone!

Here's the website: Townhouse

 

[McCoy]

It might be for one of the bedrooms only, and you'd be sharing the rest of the house with people renting the other rooms.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

What do you mean? I'd be share the rest of the house with people renting the other rooms? I'm confused by your comments.

I thought that it would be good idea to spare more rooms for my English family to sleeping around. My cousin's going to bring her daughter in, so I'd have to be ready for them to visiting us. I just don't want tiny apartment where they don't have to feeling like they're crowded.

 

[Canadave]

I don't know what the real estate market is like in Greenville, but I honestly can't see a townhouse being rented for less than $200 a month, unless it's falling apart at the seams and surrounded by crack houses. I suspect, like McCoy said, it's an ad from people who are already renting a townhouse, and are looking for someone to fill an empty bedroom.

And to put things in perspective, I rent a fairly nice one bedroom apartment with my girlfriend for $1100 a month. Granted, this is in downtown Ottawa and a desirable neighborhood, but even in cities where it's inexpensive to rent (Montreal, for instance), even a bachelor is going to set you back more than $200 a month.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I don't get it...are you only renting one room??? 195 for a whole place is pretty good.

 

[Australis]

Post the text from the ad, don't include details like phone no. or address (otherwise someone from here might snap it up ) but that sounds incredibly cheap to me. It might only be for one room - does the ad include the word 'share'?

 

[Rackon]

My parents lived in Greenville for a while. it's not a major metro area but it's a sizable enough town - lovely place in fact.

I'm a realtor, and I can't imagine ANYTHING livable with 3 bedrooms renting for under $600-750 a month there.

There has to be a catch to that listing - per week, renting a bedroom and sharing living areas...something. That almost sounds like a weekly rate.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't think that it could possibly be $195 for a 3 bedroom house especially when you look at other property listed in the same town. If it is only $195 than it might be in a very undesirable part of town or as people have said it might only be for one bedroom in a shared house.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

I supposed that you're right about that. I'm going back to looking for more apartments right now.

 

[Australis]

Just type out the ad so we can read it too.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Just type out the ad so we can read it too.

He gave a link to the ad.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

Look at what the other townhouses are going for: $750, $850, $875, $950, then look at what the first one is going for: $199. That the price is so below the average rental rate for the area should be a major red flag.

Because the description does not indicate you would be renting/sharing a room, I'm going to make a fairly safe assumption that the $199 price is way too good to be true and someone is running a scam. The scammers post a fake apartment listing way under fair market value so you'll check it out, and then when you respond, they claim they are out of the country but will 'guarantee' you the apartment if you send them a security deposit/first month's rent via a money order/wire transfer (which are nonrefundable). They promise that once they receive the money, they'll mail you a key, but no such thing will happen, and they'll start making excuses as to why you need to send them more and more money in order to get the key. Often, after the first email exchange or phone call, they'll guilt you and try to paint you as a bad person if you get second thoughts about sending the money.

Big big problem in LA at least. Please be careful. I would advise you not to respond to the listing because it sounds way too good to be true, even in this bad economy.

ETA: if a potential land lord claims to be physically unavailable to meet with you, or wants you to send him money remotely or give him money upfront before you sign the lease, DO NOT DO IT.

 

[Australis]

Silly me.

Hmm. There's one at the top of the page and one at the bottom. No photos. All the others are considerably more expensive. So why are these two so damn cheap? It's a question worth asking. If they posted some photos that might explain. Also the actual ad page for the property doesn't have a hell of a lot of information.

I have a suspicion that these places are included to get people in the door, so they can then say "Oh, that place is taken, but we do have..." and so on.

Perhaps. That said, the page we're looking at is page 2 of a bunch, and there's a place on page 1, Pirates Place Townhomes, that does have pics and more info, for an extra 50/mnth. That looks like a better choice.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

Here's a link to HUD's South Carolina tenant/landlord FAQ. Read this very carefully before you sign a lease. The California equivalent of this has spared me from more than one bad landlord:

http://www.hud.gov/local/sc/renting/tenantrights.cfm

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Finally, I found a apartment in Greenville at long last. This beautiful lady herself told me on the phone that there's empty apartments now available for few months! I'm SO going to take it!!! For that I'll be living in the upstairs apartment.

 

[Canadave]

Finally, I found a apartment in Greenville at long last. This beautiful lady herself told me on the phone that there's empty apartments now available for few months! I'm SO going to take it!!! For that I'll be living in the upstairs apartment.

Make sure you go see it before you make any decisions. When you sign a lease you're entering a legally binding contract, so if not something you end up liking, you're stuck paying for it for at least a year.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, that's either rent for a single bedroom or a major typo. I paid $300 when I lived with 5 other people, and that was incredibly cheap for the area.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Well, I won't be living in townhouse.

I'll be moving in by November, I believe.

 

[Australis]

Sorry, sorry, sorry... little confused...

She told you on the phone? Just to clarify, she told someone on the phone who translated for you? Or something else?

Just askin'.

 

[RoJoHen]

Sorry, sorry, sorry... little confused...

She told you on the phone? Just to clarify, she told someone on the phone who translated for you? Or something else?

Just askin'.

I didn't even catch that.

This guy's life confuses me sometimes.