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Old 05-29-2017, 02:56 PM
 
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Am I missing something?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...48823561_zpid/

I have friends who rent micro-studios like this (still has a kitchen) for $1000 or less. It's not spacey, but if you're single and not at home much, it's probably good enough?
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Old 05-31-2017, 04:41 PM
 
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https://seattle.craigslist.org/searc...labilityMode=0
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Old 05-31-2017, 04:48 PM
 
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I've been looking for an affordable place since I moved here in 7/2015. Not gonna happen unless you can handle roommates. Which is not likely to happen unless you can handle people smoking large amounts of marijuana.

Don't move to Casino Road. My guess is that they're trying to gentrify it by raising rent; not that much cheaper anymore and not worth catching a stray bullet over -- myeverettnews.com to stay up to date on crimes there. Murder south of Casino Rd as well as some people trying to cut into an ATM with a plasma torch last night. 16 year old ended up critically injured in the hospital after a shoot out the day before yesterday or so.

It's much safer than bad parts of east coast cities, but the drug ppl reallllly like to shoot at each other, which adds to how unsettling that area looks...
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Old 05-31-2017, 06:05 PM
 
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Kent is not that far from Seattle, heck I commuted for a decade from Tacoma to Seattle. You can get a 1 bedroom apartment that is fine and safe for $900 or less in Kent. It's not as close to Seattle as Bellevue (maybe) but for $900, lol you are not going to find much any closer other than a room to rent any closer. This isn't the mid-west where you can rent a house utilities included for a dollar and buy one for the price of a VCR...
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Old 06-03-2017, 02:04 PM
 
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Good point, Tac-Sea. Kent also has a very handy commuter rail (The Sounder) station, easy train into Seattle.
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Old 06-03-2017, 02:10 PM
 
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Tukwila is close to Seattle and is affordable.
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Old 06-03-2017, 04:19 PM
 
Location: Independent Republic of Ballard
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You might find something in Tacoma for <$750. Bigger selection if you raise your budget (to $1k?):

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_ren...38_rect/13_zm/

Also, look at Olympia:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_ren...67_rect/13_zm/
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Old 06-03-2017, 06:01 PM
 
Location: Kirkland, WA (Metro Seattle)
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Kent is not that far from Seattle, heck I commuted for a decade from Tacoma to Seattle. You can get a 1 bedroom apartment that is fine and safe for $900 or less in Kent. It's not as close to Seattle as Bellevue (maybe) but for $900, lol you are not going to find much any closer other than a room to rent any closer. This isn't the mid-west where you can rent a house utilities included for a dollar and buy one for the price of a VCR...
Yeah, well you couldn't in the part of the Midwest I grew up in either (Birmingham-Bloomfield, Oakland County Michigan). Friend of mine calls that area "Bellevue East." Some of us trade one nice suburb for another, sooner or later. I figure I just ran back to my proverbial roots.

But for a little while you *could*, in Highland Park or other parts of Detroit-proper. Why one would want to, not sure. Waaay overpriced at a buck considering it's a toxic waste dump with high taxes.

However, a scummy, trashy Everett-like ghetto in the Midwest is little better or worse than here, where hopefuls talk about "affordable housing" in the midst of a (very) obvious employment and building boom, cranes going day and night from Kirkland to Bellevue to downtown SEA, literally every housing indicator still off-the-charts seller's market with pressures highest at the lower end and less-so in the million-plus sector. Guess I live somewhere in the higher end of middle, Zillow average $981K, average home time on market "not very long."

Seattle Times, 1/31/2017, pretty much ending this conversation, see below. BTW, what happened to OP, these people come in with confused questions then what, bolt back to Iowa or something? To wit:

"Most of the slowdown in the Seattle area came in the luxury-home market, where home prices are now growing at a rate of 9.4 percent, compared with 12.4 percent for starter homes. That’s putting even more financial strain on renters struggling to save up enough for a down payment for their first house. Apartments dwellers are already seeing rents rise nearly as fast as anywhere in the country."
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Old 06-03-2017, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Independent Republic of Ballard
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Kent is not that far from Seattle, heck I commuted for a decade from Tacoma to Seattle. You can get a 1 bedroom apartment that is fine and safe for $900 or less in Kent.
Not any more...

There are a handful for a $1,000 or so, but otherwise you're talking $1,200 or more:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_ren...99_rect/12_zm/
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