Chandler House Rentals (Phoenix: for sale, real estate, apartments)

[PhoenixSomeday]

Looking to buy in a few years, but we still have to rent in the meantime. There are a ton of great houses for sale at strangely reasonable prices for what you get throughout Chandler, but when it comes to equivalent SFH rentals ($1500-$1600 or less) the pickings seem to be extremely rare. The selling prices are great and reasonable, but the rental prices seem way out of whack. What gives?

[sandy6879]

The rental market is still hot here. Tons of people move in the area from elsewhere and most rent to get themselves started. Add in that there is still a good segment of the population who went through a foreclosure or short sale and can't buy yet and you get the rental prices we have here.

I agree, the rental pricing is very high but they ask it and they get it. So there's not a need for the rents to be lower.

[PhoenixSomeday]

Well I guess we may be forced to live in yet another apartment (which we are tired of - we've done that our entire lives). Only problem is that most Chandler apartments, while nicely new, are kind of insultingly small given the number of rooms and price. But again, demand I guess, like you said.

[goolsbyjazz]

Don't give up so quickly. I live in Chandler and there are homes for rent that are less than $14-$1,500 per month.

[PhoenixSomeday]

Well there's nothing to give up on yet, we still have 7 months on our apartment lease. We've just been scoping things out to see what it's like. Get some ideas of what we can get, how much things are, etc. so that we are good to go when it comes time to search in earnest.

We are currently using zillow to find house rentals because redfin and the others don't seem to have such a feature and craigslist, while a good source (for me, historically, but only for housing), doesn't quite have the search and map capabilities that an actual real estate / full blown website has. Definitely open to more rental search sources than just Zillow.

As for less than $1400-1500, we are looking for at least 3 bedrooms, and generally south of the 202 (really loving the area south of 202, east of Price, west-but-also-slightly-east of Arizona Ave). Seems like slim pickings though! But like I said, there's plenty of time between now and then.

[goolsbyjazz]

Hmmm, that is a nice, popular area. Zillow is good and padmapper.com may also be another resource you can use.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by PhoenixSomeday

Looking to buy in a few years, but we still have to rent in the meantime. There are a ton of great houses for sale at strangely reasonable prices for what you get throughout Chandler, but when it comes to equivalent SFH rentals ($1500-$1600 or less) the pickings seem to be extremely rare. The selling prices are great and reasonable, but the rental prices seem way out of whack. What gives?

I believe that most of the land lords, myself included at one time, bought fairly high and therefore have the rent priced high. Of course those that own their rentals outright are making a lot.

[BestintheWest]

Originally Posted by PhoenixSomeday

Well I guess we may be forced to live in yet another apartment (which we are tired of - we've done that our entire lives). Only problem is that most Chandler apartments, while nicely new, are kind of insultingly small given the number of rooms and price. But again, demand I guess, like you said.

try this, you can tweak the web site for $, then by property type to rentals, after several searches you will have to sign in, you can drag the map around and see every rental in the valley


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[KurtAZ]

For that area figure $1 per sqft. More if it has a pool.