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When I started thinking about moving, I got online and started searching for places to rent. When you don’t know a certain area it is so hard to figure out exactly where to start looking. All the online websites require you to really know the area you are looking at or you have to search through hundreds of apartments that meet your criteria but might not be where you want.
Your service is so much better. You give what rent.com or apartments.com etc offers, a database of all the rentals, only you give someone personal service and information about the area and each rental…….why wouldn’t a renter use you!! I did, and I will again.
Lora G.
St. Louis, MO
As our winter months continue we are seeing some fantastic specials being offered by the apartment communities. These include properties throughout the area such as Brentwood, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Downtown and the Central West End just to name a few!
We know of several properties offering TWO MONTHS FREE, others with reduced rental rates, free garage parking, no short term premiums and much more. Contact an Apartment Search agent today to take advantage of some of the best move-in concessions we have seen in years! You can reach us at 314-821-4999 or email me at ddone@apartment-search.com
Nicely updated apartment community in Ballwin (West St. Louis County) is offering their 2-bedroom apartments for $695/mo, which is less than many 1-bedroom apartments nearby. Good square footage, all the amenities, right off Manchester Road. Call Apartment Search (314-821-4999) or email ddone@apartment-search.com for details on the VBA special (through November)!
As brokers in the St. Louis rental market, Apartment Search is constantly doing a balancing act between haggle-happy renters and bottomline-shackled owners. It’s a balancing act with a win/win result always as our goal.
Lately, we’ve really gotten caught in the middle with our private listings — outrageous offers coming in on units already grossly underpriced. So renters, here’s a different perspective, a little food for thought.
I recently read an apartment community in Las Vegas was offering 5 months free rent. Yikes! Pretty soon, they’ll be paying people to move in… The question is, how much longer can landlords offer 40 percent off, and stay in business? Not long.
Today’s renters are well informed and sophisticated. They don’t hesitate to negotiate down to the lowest possible rental rate. And I agree — it is the savvy renter’s job to get the best possible deal.
But sooner or later, renters have to realize it may ultimately cost them. Since 2008, we have seen a steady wave of renters forced to relocate because their landlords wound up in foreclosure.
Free rent is great, but if the end result is moving in a couple of months with little or no notice, it’s definitely not so great — not for the renter, the community, the local economy, you, or me.
So go after that great deal, but consider whether your landlord will have enough money left over after the mortgage, taxes and insurance to keep up the maintenance (or replace your furnace come next February). And remember the old adage — if it’s too good to be true, it probably is…
Kathryn Wood
Founder and CEO
Apartment Search, Inc.
Check this out – one of our favorite Central West End highrises is offering 1-bedrooms for $600/mo — you save $2,400.00 on a year lease! Or save $250.00/mo on their oversized 2-bedrooms, perfect for roommates, only $830/mo.
Hurry — offer expires 10/10/09. Call us for details on DCA at 314- 821-4999, or email me at kmwood@apartment-search.com. If you’re not looking right now, but know someone who is, pass it on!
Just spoke with one of our apartment communities – they are offering the best leasing incentive we’ve seen so far this fall! Get $2,000 off a 1-bedroom, or $1,500 off a 2-bedroom in October. WOW!
This is a beautiful community, very modern, centrally located in West St. Louis County, with easy access minutes from I-270. The staff is super, super friendly, too! I highly recommend this one — 9.1.
Just call the office for details, 314-821-4999. Ask the agent who answers the phone about LCDM. It may take them a minute, but you’ll get the details! Worth checking out – with this special, currently vacant units will fill up fast.
Hard to believe it’s been 23 years since I sat in my business partner’s basement pseudo-office and we began the daily routine of following our basic business plan to launch Apartment Search in St. Louis, MO.
It took us six months to research and lay it all out, but it was simple. Our goal was to help frustrated renters find what they were looking for as quickly and painlessly as possible, and we would only charge the properties when we delivered.
We signed up apartments and owners under a non-exclusive contract that didn’t cost them a dime unless they got a lease. We called on corporations and real estate agencies, offering free assistance with their renters.
We accompanied every prospect we saw, walked them through the process, and sent them a thank-you note so they had mail in their new mailbox. Simple. It was all based on the fact that we truly wanted to help. And it has worked. For 23 years!
So, for the last 13 years, we have celebrated in October by throwing an anniversary party. The tradition began in 1996, when it dawned on me that we had not only survived, but succeeded, for a whole 10 years! Cause for celebration.
It was a small affair, with our favorite people from the rental and relocation industries. When I saw the VP of our second-largest property management client doing a jello shot with no hands, I knew the party was a hit. We had to do it again.
Now, every year we throw a party, but for a different reason. It’s not to congratulate ourselves. We take that one evening to recognize and thank all the hardworking, caring people in this industry who help us do our job so well.
It’s a chance to remind them how we see them going above and beyond again and again to help every prospect or transferee. We see it daily, we know how much it takes, and we deeply, deeply appreciate them. It’s our one opportunity to just tell them so.
We invite the staffs of every property we represent, from the owner to the maintenance guys. We invite our corporate contacts, our relocation referrers, and our real-estate agency supporters. We invite friends, customers who have used our services, and rental prospects currently looking.
We invite everyone who understands just how difficult and demanding the apartment industry can be.
So if you’re reading this, you know. And you’re invited! It’s on October 21st at 6:00 p.m. at the Backstreet Blues Jazz Club in Westport Plaza.
Show up, say you read this blog, enjoy two free drinks (we’ve toned it down a bit from 1996), try all the catered eats, and don’t leave without having a piece of the best German Chocolate cake in the world.
Help us celebrate. Not Apartment Search’s 23 years, but our salute to the entire apartment industry throughout St. Louis. If you’ve ever rented, or tried to help a friend, or knew someone struggling to get settled in St. Louis, you will join us to give them a one-night, heartfelt round of applause.
Hope to see you there!
Kathryn Wood, Founder and CEO
I read today that 25 percent of Internet surfers recommend websites to their friends. If you know someone looking for an apartment or condo rental, please send them to www.apartment-search.com! All our privately owned listings are there (in great detail and with photos). Then if you have questions, a live person will (usually) answer the phone and answer your questions! What a concept!
We’re live, we’re local, we’re free, and we’ve been helping St. Louis renters find their perfect apartment since 1986. If you’re looking outside St. Louis, we belong to a national network of dedicated, independent companies who offer similar services in 22 cities around the U. S. – www.apartmentsacrossamerica.com. Why not check it out and give us a try? Doesn’t cost a dime, and you just might find that one-of-a-kind dream condo apartment rental!
The owner just called and dropped the price on this charming 3-bed, 2-bath house in U. City — from $1,495/mo to $1,345/mo. This is a steal! It will go fast. Call Sara at Apartment Search 314-821-4999, ext. 120 to take a look and get it off the market today. To view this listing click here
