Your First Apartment.........

Finding your first apartment, signing the lease, and getting moved is very intimidating. Let's take a look at some of the things you need to do before you start looking for your first apartment and some tools to make that search more efficient. Use our Tenant Rights and Areas of San Diego to get a better handle on your lease and location.
Here are the major steps.

1) Budget (Don't become a prisoner ofyour apartment, find an apartment in your price range without draining the bank account.)

2) What Kind of Apartment do you need? Do you work from home? Do you need a laundry on premisis? How much stuff do you have? Doyou need parking or public transportation? Are windows important. What emenities do you want? Should I rent or buy?

3) Apartment Hunting: SanDigoRenter.com is a listing service in San Diego that offers location maps, pictures, email, and the widest variety of aparmtents in San Diego. I will also recomend a Thomas Guide for a newcomer to San Diego. The Tomas Guide is a detailed map of San Diego. This guide can be purchased at most office supply stores.

4) What the ?*#% is the code that landlords use to list an apartment in the newspaper. Unlike SanDiegoRenter.com there is a limit on text so Landlords have created there own code. To help you de-code this we have provided the following page. Apartment Ad Abbreviation Guide.