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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
And you moved there why?
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We had another place picked out bit it fell through due to a leasing agent who just was too slow to care about renting the place. We wasted alot of time and money waiting on that place.
When we got here in May almost all apartments in our budget range were already taken for fall term for students. We had no idea about this as nothing on the internet could have prepare us for this. We had very little to choose from. Also very few people will rent to the unemployed so we had to get my father in law to come down here and do a co-sign and find a place in one day after staying in that nightmare hotel for a week.
When we toured this place there was no way of telling the true nature of these apartments. Almost everyone is gone in the day giving the illusion of a peaceful community add that to a southern cheery leasing agent who charmed the wits out of my husband and father in law and you get stuck here. Seeing it's near Cary we had no idea that it sat on the edge of a bad neighborhood in Raleigh. I had not yet found the Spot Crime website so I didn't know how to map out neighborhoods. I tried calling the local police but they weren't much help. The Cary police told us about Project Phoenix and to only apply to those but the ones we looked at there were not in great shape and it looked like party college type places.
Rent here is really high. We pay $900 a month for a 750sq apartment with no central air. Pooh says it's because of the students they jack up rent around here. Once we get back on our feet and when hubby finds a job we can re-evulate things but right now we're stuck.