Apartments in Charleston Area (South Charleston, Teays Valley: hardwood floors, low income, apartment complex)

[baylorgrad]

I will be moving to Charleston in a couple months and have been trying to get an apartment in the Charleston area. I am having issues finding an apartment complex that has any available spots starting in Sept. Does anyone have any suggestions on which apartments would be the safest and cleanest? Any suggestions that I might try instead of apartments? Why aren't there more apartment/townhouse options in the charleston area?

Any suggestions or ideas would be helpful!

Thank you.

[Chriscross309]

Originally Posted by baylorgrad

I will be moving to Charleston in a couple months and have been trying to get an apartment in the Charleston area. I am having issues finding an apartment complex that has any available spots starting in Sept. Does anyone have any suggestions on which apartments would be the safest and cleanest? Any suggestions that I might try instead of apartments? Why aren't there more apartment/townhouse options in the charleston area?

Any suggestions or ideas would be helpful!

Thank you.

How close do you need to be to downtown, work, school,---other---ect

What's a price range???

I'll do my best

[baylorgrad]

Pretty open on the price. I would like the "most bang for the buck" as the saying goes. Proximity to downtown does not matter to me. Thanks!

[WVPhoenix]

Do a google search for "Charleston WV Apartment Buildings" that's pretty much the only way you'll get information on buildings. Oh, and only like 2-3 buildings have websites, you'll have to call for info on the others.

[SorryIMovedBack]

Many of the townhouse apartments were built out in Cross Lanes, which was unincorporated as of when I left. Much of Charleston's house stock and apartments are early 20th century into the '50s and '60s. There are some larger apartments in the Kanawha City area. They may not be townhouses but they are big 2br flats with plaster walls and hardwood floors. There are a few townhouses and large apartments in South Charleston. The problem is finding them, since they are independently owned. Some owners advertise in newspapers, but more likely they rent through realtors or word-of-mouth or workplace or church or whatever, so that they can control who they rent to. Try contacting a few of the larger Realtor offices. Most of the apartments and townhouse apartments in the area will not have a garage. Most of the townhouses that have garages were biult as condos and may or may not have been turned into rentals.

Roxalana Hills in Dunbar had some townhouses. Roxalana is about the only complex that tried to be "urban" and offer mixer events, etc. for the residents.

You might look at rental houses, but when I was living there, the house rents were much higher price than house payments, and the rental houses were in bad sections of town, for the most part.

It you wind up in Cross Lanes, try to avoid anything on Big Tyler Road on the far side of the stoplight. Stay closer to the Interstate, or on Little Tyler / Washington St. West. On icey or snowy days in winter, the traffic grinds to a halt and you can't get through for hours, plus the Interstate will be bad. In good weather, the traffic backed up pretty much on Big Tyler, on the far side of the light. That narrow road through there has always been a bottleneck.

There might be some apartments or small houses in Belle. Might be some in South Charleston. It can take some real work to find a desirable place to rent.

In general, you are better off to stay out of Cross Lanes or Teays Valley if you can. They are too far away from town, and all of the traffic pours in from the west in the AM, and then has to head into the sun in the PM.

[SorryIMovedBack]

Vandalia Terrace is low income. Avoid.
Springhill Apartments are low incomes and drug infested. Bad crime area. Avoid.
Southmore used to be income based. If it still is, it and will be a mix of low income and middle class, but might be okay. South Charleston HS is pretty good.
Springhill Apartments are low incomes and drug infested. Bad crime area. Avoid.
Greenbriar Hills might be good. Good neighborhood and school district, for certain. Convenient to downtown.
Olde English in Cross Lanes is townhouses.
Stratford is flats and it looked like prefab units set down. Deer-something out in Teays Valley is the same. There might be some larger units in there, but the one I saw was a small 1BR.
Kanawha Village is in a nice area. Not sure how large the apts are, though. Off-street parking only and parking is at the curb.
Country Club Village in Charleston, I think, is near the Town Center Mall. Has townhouses with garages.

Kanawha City and South Hills are considered good sections of Charleston. Edgewood was a nice older section when I lived there, but it might have few apartments or rentals.

Apartment Management Services
1108 Skytop Cir
Charleston, WV 25314-2222
Might try them. I'm not sure whether they own anything good or not, though.

[SorryIMovedBack]

It's Southmoor apartments. I found this fire story today while looking for something else:
SC fire damages apartments: Firefighters also tackle West Side blaze - Charleston Gazette | HighBeam Research - FREE trial

[Almost Heaven WV girl]

Southmoor apartments are low income.

[Newbie33]

Baylorgrad, I too am relocating to Charleston area and looking at apartments/townhouses. I also am having a hard time finding more options online. What is your advice? And where did you end up renting?