Greenville rental homes (mortgage, bad credit, month to)

[GottaGetOuttaFL]

We will be relocating to Greenville in the next couple months and we will be renting a house at first. It seems there aren't many rentals in Greenville. We have been looking at Realtor.com, etc. Any "rental house" sites you all know about for the area? There is NOTHING on realtor.com Kinda strange. Thank you!

[NoodlesKnowles]

Originally Posted by GottaGetOuttaFL

We will be relocating to Greenville in the next couple months and we will be renting a house at first. It seems there aren't many rentals in Greenville. We have been looking at Realtor.com, etc. Any "rental house" sites you all know about for the area? There is NOTHING on realtor.com Kinda strange. Thank you!

here's an older thread that has many updated links to rental properties that I created years ago

RENTALS

[GottaGetOuttaFL]

Thank you!!!

[saucystargazer]

Rental market here is extremely tight and you will most likely have to give up a lot of what you want unless you have a high budget. We looked for months and then got stuck into a situation where we had to find something in 2 weeks. We ended up 200 over our budget for a house that is falling apart. We are only month to month and have been looking still since august and can't find anything. I have heard from others the only way to really get what you want is to go check in hand the first day you see an add posted. Hope you have more luck than us. Difficulty finding rentals

[ckeely]

You can find rentals on zillow.com, trulia.com and on other housing sites; however, we moved here a month ago planning to rent and chose to buy instead. We were going to rent for a year while we got to know the area and then buy a house -- the problem is that the crashing housing market has dramatically increased rental prices. Before the crash, anyone could buy a house with nothing down, so nobody wanted to rent and rentals were cheap. Now you have lots of families with bad credit who CAN'T buy or who are afraid to invest or who don't have enough money to put down on a house. So you have many more people looking to rent, which has driven rental prices up. You can figure that renting will run you about twice the cost of a mortgage payment. For example, we found that nice quality 2000-square-foot, 3 bedroom, built in the last 5 years, with a 1/4-1/3 acre yard rents for about $1200-$1400 per month. Renting would have cost us 14-18K per year! We chose to buy a house instead for $155,000 that is substantially nicer than any rental we looked at, and our mortgage payment will be half what renting would have cost. If you simply CAN'T buy, then just be prepared for higher rental prices than you'd expect, but if buying is an option, it might be a better financial decision. We specifcally looked for a house in a desirable area that should be easy to sell in a year or two -- even if we take a small loss, we'll still be better off than if we'd rented.

[GottaGetOuttaFL]

Thanks guys! Some really great advice there...and you have given us some things to really think about.
I appreciate your insight.