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Our most popular properties of 2020

December 28, 2020 by Ted Bauer

This list is not about where we placed the most renters, or even about our own favorite properties. (We love them all.) It's about the pageview count for different properties on our site. Perhaps you can use it as a handy clip-and-save guide to some...Read more

DFW luxury apartments: Search by the area you most desire

October 5, 2020 by Ted Bauer

Looking for DFW luxury apartments? We've got you covered, no doubt. Here's how we're going to do this: A full list of 3,265 DFW luxury apartment complexes Keep this link handy to see how much cash back you can get from renting a DFW luxury apartment...Read more

How to save about $197 to $335 per month on renting in DFW

September 7, 2020 by Ted Bauer

We have talked in the past about how exactly DFW rental apartments are priced. It's a complicated mix of factors, ultimately rooted in supply and demand, and COVID changed some elements of it but not at a massive scale. Rent prices dropped a little...Read more

Rental history report: What to know

August 31, 2020 by Ted Bauer

We get this question a lot from potential clients about the rental history report, so let's run down a few things to consider therein. What's typically on a rental history report? It might vary a little bit geographically, but usually the factors on...Read more

The Temple of Busy and searching for apartments

August 31, 2020 by Ted Bauer

The "Temple of Busy" is not necessarily some common, SEO-friendly term. I have seen it used hundreds of times in different articles, though. It refers to the idea that "busy" or "being busy" is almost a currency of the modern age. Back in olden...Read more

Grapevine apartments: 36 complexes to consider (20 of them luxury)

August 26, 2020 by Ted Bauer

Grapevine is a great place to hang your hat if you have the opportunity. It's part of Tarrant County (mostly; there's a sliver of Dallas County) and it's 19.6 miles from Dallas and 22.8 miles to Fort Worth, so it's essentially one of the truly...Read more

What questions should you ask an apartment complex when looking at it?

June 22, 2020 by Ted Bauer

Last week, we talked about some factors that apartment complexes evaluate you on -- predominanly financial in nature, obviously. (Similarly, we have talked about whether you can get an apartment if furloughed or laid off, with the short answer being...Read more

Four new apartments in Plano TX to check out

June 18, 2020 by Ted Bauer

A few weeks ago, we covered some of the best brand new apartments in Plano. For our purposes, "brand new" means built in 2019/2020. You can see all the brand new apartment builds we list right here, across all cities in DFW. We also have a...Read more

What economic factors will an apartment complex evaluate you on?

June 15, 2020 by Ted Bauer

We do get questions about this consistently, so we wanted to organize it into a post in case you come across it. Credit check/credit score You were likely familiar with this as a parameter that an apartment complex will look at. Score requirements...Read more

Can I get an apartment if I am furloughed or laid off?

June 9, 2020 by Ted Bauer

Let's start with some math Late-2019 (that seems like forever ago, doesn't it?) research from Apartment List showed 49.7% of the 41M renters in the U.S. were "rent-burdened," or "cost-burdened," which is typically defined as spending more than 30%...Read more