Relocate to Fairmount - Page 2 - PhillyBlog

MOLLY077 · #11 (**permalink**) 01-13-2005, 02:22 PM

I'm just looking a place in SG, FM, or UCity.

If anyone happens to see for rent signs, would you mind writing them down for me? I would myself, but I am 1,300 miles away.

Hell, I'll even pay someone to do this. I am getting DESPERATE!!!!

eagleapex · #12 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by sycamore

Eagle, where exactly do you live in G'Town?

At the corner of Morris and Chelten. I know it's getting better, but i'm picky. and i hate my landlord. so I'll be moving come may 31st

mikeg · #13 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by lislemck

This is the old-fashioned, low-tech way to find cheap rents: walk or drive around the neighborhood where you want to live and look for hand-lettered For Rent signs. Ignore the realtor signs. They are meaningless. The "homemade" signs can be the pre-printed For Rent signs (usually red)--if they have hand-lettered info, call them or look around for someone to talk to... These will be the landlords who are looking to avoid paying a realtor fee or for an ad in the paper. Their rents will almost always be below market. This has been the way to go for cheap apartments for a long time--the person who gave me the advice told me she'd been doing it since the 60s. It has always worked in my experience. The other piece of advice is to ask around the commercial establishments--maybe not bars or restaurants, but pharmacies and cleaners and such. They ofter have rentals above the store that are cheap...good luck!

This is very good advice (ignoring the company ads). Once I remember walking around Fairmount and writing down phone numbers of rental companies from the facades/windows of buildings I'd consider living in, and every one of the numbers I had written did not have an apartment available at the location where the signs were posted - Do not trust the rental companies in this regard. The same happened when I was looking to rent a place in Logan Square. For example, there are signs posted on the windows of buildings on 21st Street, and when you call them, they don't have an apartment open there. Basically, I found our current apartment looking in Philly Weekly, and then was the first one to come up with deposit money b/c the apt was already seen by 6 people the same day it was first advertised. You have to act very quickly if you see a place you really want.

amollie · #14 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 02:22 PM

Did the person who originally post this question (about finding private landlords in the Fairmount) come up with any good suggestions. I'm in the same spot right now and not finding much on Craigslist. I'm going to try the driving around approach and looking in stores, but if anybody found any other specific good sources please share. Thanks.

HughE 2030 · #15 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 11:45 PM

The Philadelphian has 3 studios (600 -700 sq ft) for rent ranging in price from $850 - 1100 (all utilities included & bus to center city)

KEIKO · #16 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 09:05 AM

there is a house for rent on my block 28th & stiles half a block n of girard i think 650.00$

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