Relocating To Bossier City (apartment complex, renters, crime)

[blackbeauty1985]

I will be relocating to BC in June this year. Finding a rental home has been very difficult. Anyone who knows of safe areas or possible homes for rent please let me know. I have inquired on a property located off Airline and East Texas near the mall. Is this a safe descent area? Are the schools for this area descent? Is there lot of crime in this area? The house is actually located on Ronald Street. Is this a run down area? Anyone, please help. Thanks in advance.

[hindsight2020]

The street you mention is actually accessed through shed road and airline. I live in an apt complex two streets east of ronald st. I wouldn't call this block of town decent. It's rather run-down. The apts where I live are a dated including the appliances, which I hate but I'm living on the cheap so that's my choice. That said, they are better than some I've seen in bossier and again I'm trying to live on the cheap for now. The location is great but the area is not an area I would call safe. The biggest problem really is the income-based apartments at the end of shed road and benton rd. Lots of night pedestrian traffic from those apartments and makes petty crime on this block high. I had my bicycle stolen and my car broken into in the first two months I lived here. That would have been enough to move for me but the fiance decided it sucks to move again so we're just staying put until we get sick of the riff raff. One more incident of petty crime and we'll probably cough up the extra 200/mo to live in the snobby but nicer (and gated) apartments in other areas of town.

Suspicious people crossing the parking lot of the apartment complex (it's not a gated complex where we live, yet the income based complex that's the source of most 'heat' around here IS!) causes the area in general to be a little suspect. I hate to say it but I openly square off (had to do it once before..military survival training kicks in I guess lol) at night to anybody who gets within 50 feet of my person or my finace in our parking lot, you can tell who doesn't live in the complex and just crossing by to break into cars, and I can accept that, but I can't accept anything happening to my family, so I have to live defensively. My point is that if we get some occasional heat on the corner of airline and shed all the way from shed and benton, your street of interest is dead-deep in that block. The houses in this area are small old sub-100K properties, the area is just not nice. I'm sure there are decent law abiding people in the neighborhood, but the area is just rough. I haven't seen many affordable house rentals in bossier city to be honest, I find them comparable to what a mortgage would run you on these properties. I think for renters in bossier, apartments are the way to go in my opinion. If you do decide to look for house rentals, be prepared to spend no less than 950 dollars/mo in ok neighborhoods and certainly upwards of 1000-12500/mo for the nice suburbs. Apartments in nice complexes can be found for 800-1200 between here and shreveport just off the barksdale bridge, anything less than that for a 2bed you're in places where I live, OK location but a little rough. Below 600/mo you're in the ghetto, plain and simple. Good luck