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I have not checked into rents downtown, but $1200 does not sound high at all for a nice apartment. My son paid that for a 1 bedroom in Columbia until he got smart and built a house . My daughter pays that in Raleigh, NC, as well.
I have not checked into rents downtown, but $1200 does not sound high at all for a nice apartment. My son paid that for a 1 bedroom in Columbia until he got smart and built a house . My daughter pays that in Raleigh, NC, as well.
I don't know, it just seems a little high for someone fresh out of college with a fresh out of college salary.
I don't know, it just seems a little high for someone fresh out of college with a fresh out of college salary.
Then that person should probably not be looking at living downtown....
People need to live within their means. No wonder we have such a student loan and debt fiasco. People always living above their means and wanting things now that took their parents, grandparents decades to save money for.
Then that person should probably not be looking at living downtown....
...plus you can be downtown-adjacent without physically living on/just off Main St.
I've worked with many, many people in Greenville fresh out of college in the 15 years I've been here. (Heck, I was barely 22 when I moved to Greenville, so I was in that group too!) Only one that I can remember lived in the heart of downtown, and she rented an apartment at Davenport and had precisely zero good things to say about it. Plenty of other friends/coworkers have lived extremely close to downtown, often within walking distance. (They tended to rent houses and have roommates, though, rather than apartments.) It's completely within reach to live close to downtown without breaking the bank.
i'm a 31 year old engineer and live downtown, owning a condo. I lived in the outskirts and took a lot of undesirable well compensated jobs in my 20s. I'd probably need another 2 year very undersirable job to be able to afford one of the newer, upgraded condos/townhomes but i am very fiscally conservative.
i think lots of folks making in the high 5 figs, low 6 can afford a decent 2 bedroom downtown. 3 br downtown units are in very tight supply so it isn't surprising how much more they are.
I don't know, it just seems a little high for someone fresh out of college with a fresh out of college salary.
It is. But nowadays kids expect to graduate school and instantly move into a high dollar, established lifestyle, on a starter wage.
When I left college, and my spouse also, we each purchased $40k starter homes in low-end neighborhoods and worked our way up into a nicer lifestyle over the years as our jobs progressed.
I think anyone graduating college and expecting to move right into a 2k per month piece of premium real estate is not being realistic. At that price, I would only be paying a mortgage and building equity instead of throwing it away into rent. Rent makes a lot of sense if you are young, mobile, and it saves you money, but not if you are actually paying more than a mortgage to rent in a designer location. I think in that case, splitting rent with room mates only makes sense.
...plus you can be downtown-adjacent without physically living on/just off Main St.
I've worked with many, many people in Greenville fresh out of college in the 15 years I've been here. (Heck, I was barely 22 when I moved to Greenville, so I was in that group too!) Only one that I can remember lived in the heart of downtown, and she rented an apartment at Davenport and had precisely zero good things to say about it. Plenty of other friends/coworkers have lived extremely close to downtown, often within walking distance. (They tended to rent houses and have roommates, though, rather than apartments.) It's completely within reach to live close to downtown without breaking the bank.
McBee Station comes to mind but I think it is still too pricey IMO...
Picasso 1 Bed / 1 Bath 634 sq.ft. $1,250.00 - $1,300.00
The OKeeffe 1 Bed / 1 Bath 768 sq.ft. $1,340.00 - $1,400.00
Warhol 1 Bed / 1 Bath 845 sq.ft. $1,430.00 - $1,490.00
Van Gogh 1 Bed / 1 Bath 886 sq.ft $1,460.00 - $1,520.00
Rockwell 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1188 sq.ft . $1,650.00 - $1,710.00
Chagall 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1194 sq.ft . $1,691.00 - $1,751.00
Michelangelo 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1269 sq.ft $1,691.00 - $1,751.00
Monet 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1312 sq.ft. $1,701.00 - $1,761.00
Matisse 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1319 sq.ft. $1,825.00 - $1,885.00
Degas 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1330 sq.ft. $1,760.00 - $1,820.00
Wyeth 2 Bed / 2 Bath 1338 sq.ft. $1,821.00 - $1,881.00
Rembrandt 3 Bed / 2 Bath 1587 sq.ft $2,015.00 - $2,075.00
Ok let's put this into perspective. I am 5 years post grad school in a STEM field. A one bedroom at McBee station on the lowest of the low end would be 40% of my take home pay. My salary is more than the average household for the state's 2010 census. It doesn't price out recent grads, it prices out the average household in South Carolina.
I'm too cheap to live in a place that small for that price in SC. If I'm living in NYC, heck yeah I'll live in a space that size at that price. Instead, I decided to buy a really cheap house so I could live with my large dog.
You dont have any kids that you know of..... LOL.. Nice crib.. Im sure you may have the option to make a few of them by living there....
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. My daughter pays that in Raleigh, NC, as well.
Nice crib.. Im sure you may have the option to make a few of them by living there....
