Submitted by quoth01 t3_11zms42 in newhampshire
Hey NH, I'm looking for an apartment in the Seacoast/Dover area. I've made a Facebook post and been on Zillow, but there doesn't seem to be a ton of inventory.
Are there typically more apartments coming on the market in summer? What strategies / websites have you used for finding housing?
I'm OK with something furnished / more of a sublet as well. Thanks!
Step 1. Be rich
Step 2. Know someone
Also in the summer there are FAR less rentals.
If you have the money, try Seabrook or Salisbury, Newburyport or points south.
Why did you throw Seabrook and Newburyport in the same sentence?
LOL like Hell and Heaven
I mean they both have rentals, no? Just depending on if you have 5k or 500k in your bank account...
Keep an eye on the obituaries.
Housing may has moved from legend to myth.
Depending on the time frame you are looking for, college housing sometimes opens up for summer rentals.
Also consider looking across the border in Maine
Somersworth and Rochester are kind of rat holes, but may be cheaper
Somersworth is where its at. Much cheaper and close enough to anything you want or need
Reach out to a realtor. That is how I found where I currently live in Newmarket. Otherwise I hadn’t seen the space advertised in any of the usual places.
This is a good idea! We worked with one in Dover and she found us listings that, due to how competitive the rents market was, would have never gone to Zillow. Fb marketplace wasn't a bad place to look either.
Dover is really hard though. Consider expanding your search to Newmarket or South Berwick.
Hi, neighbor! Fellow Newmarketeer
Howdy :)
There is a house for rent, looks like by owner on bunker hill in Stratham. They just have a sign out front with a phone number. Not sure exactly what you're looking for but Craigslist has housing for rent, or rooms for rent as well.
Hey I’m trying to get in there. It’s on Zillow. 21 applicants in 3 days. Open house Saturday
I do not envy anyone looking for housing over here right now, what a blood bath. Good luck to you guys!
Have friends that have been actively trying to buy for two years. It is still a stupid market with very little inventory to consider buying
At this post I’d just give it up because of how stupid high interest rates are. My parents got lucky and were able to find a house in 2021 (we used to live in Mass), but it took them around a year of looking and bidding.
Two years seems like a stretch. It took me about 4 months to find a house —which isn’t short but not horrible in this market.
First time homebuyers. Budget was under a million.
If there’s no rush and they are looking for an exact ideal then they should take as long as they need for sure 👍 I made some small compromises for my place (closed last week). Wish I could say it’s a $1mil home haha but idk anyone who’s got that kind of budget
The challenge of low inventory is also multiplied by the amount of out of staters looking to move in and driving prices up. It is a very real issue for people trying to get a first home.
I was successful by calling property management companies directly. Found a place quite quickly.
This is a good route as well.
Definitely get with a local realtor. Zillow does not update quickly so by the time you see availability it’s already snatched up by someone that is nearer and saw it otherwise locally advertised. Affordable housing is very limited right now. Consider extending your search range to the (even less) less metro areas. Good luck.
Sell your soul
I married a rich woman. True, I'm a bit of a kept man, but I have a bowling alley and home theater and gym in my house. Everyone has to suffer ..
I would suggest what another person has and reach out to a realtor or a you can find some in the area that specifically work with rentals.
I will say good luck with the sea coast area. Rent has gone up dramatically in a lot of places and the sea coast is one of those. Out of all of the places I’ve lived across the US, I find NH to have been one of the more difficult places to find a rental in general. Either it’s way out of your range, in the middle of nowhere and run down, or there is a long waiting list to get an apartment, and by the time you do rent has gone up several hundred dollars or more.
But don’t let that deter you. I’ve gotten extremely lucky in the past finding an affordable and decent sized apartment. All the luck to you!
I used websites for apartment rental companies such as Arthur Thomas (reasonably priced) and Real Property Management as well as Zillow. For the apartment I'm in now, I had to apply before seeing the place in order to not lose out. Good luck!
I saw a video on WMUR yesterday about a landlord explaining why rents were going up so fast in Manchester and he said that it's property tax increase and energy costs this past winter. Along with inflation in costs to maintain a property, both labor and materials. He said that a tenant left recently and he's refurbishing the apartment and will put it out for rent and he said that he expects thousands of applications for the apartment. Unless you have a hook for finding a place, it's tough out there.
The seacoast is at less than 2% vacancy rate for apartments and near 0% for residential homes. Healthy rates are 6-8%. Godspeed.
Seacoast is renter friendly during the winter time, unless you're buying or find a weirdo who will let you live in his basement
I actually found a decent rental in Dover in 2018 on Craigslist lol try there
Really depends on your timing (short term/6 month/12 month) and price range as prices can be drastically different even one town over
Check Craigslist. E.g., https://nh.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=dover#search=1~gallery~0~0
Look on Craigslist as well
Look at Newmarket, Somersworth, and possibly Durham. Cons are you're competing with college kids for room
I found my apartment in Dover in January on Craigslist. Property management company is Real Property Management Seacoast. They have a couple of realtors and you can book viewings online. I can send you the name of my realtor if you want (and if I can find it)
FB marketplace!! And Craigslist. I was looking during a super weird time last October and that’s how I found my current place / others to tour.
I have found that the March/April is really slow with little inventory. I don't remember May but June had much more inventory. The last two times I changed apartments I didn't find a place until June but stared looking much earlier.
My assumption has always been that it's due to the college folks and that just sort of creates the waves of availability.
I’m a realtor and my advice is to tackle this three ways:
For number 3, I help place prospective renters in the Seacoast area. My company has 4 apartments. We had over 100 applicants but maybe 20 were actually acceptable by standards of credit, income and no evictions.
Pm me with any questions.
My slumlord died recently and left it all to his cat. A few tenants have moved out. I'm not giving you an address but if you look you can find some empty apartments to squat in
Network if you can.
Do not trust CL - they keep stealing listings I have for a house for sale and listing it for rent for crazy low. So many scams. I have been thinking of renting house vs selling at this point. Is it really that bad out there?
I'm in Newmarket. I found my place about 4y ago on Craigslist. Awesome town, landlords (he's a VA Dr, she's a lawyer they live in Kingston)
I got picked (I think) because I work in healthcare and he is a Dr. Aka....she will always have a great job...no worries about drugs etc. Well over 15 others...even almost 4y ago. It's worse now!
I love love love this town! Such great diversity... close to soooo many things!
Just watch out for the fake ads on CL. Now tons of scammers!
Best of luck!
There is very little inventory right now. It should pick up as the spring comes, but I think a lot of people are holding on to their < 3% mortgages right now until prices or rates come down before they list, so it will probably stay very low inventory.
Get on a wait-list. There's nothing available. Or try a realtor to help.
Didn't expect such a passionate response. I thought it was a light-hearted comment.
Everything is too damn expensive in Southern NH. But then NH has relatively more freedom than its surrounding states. You get what you pay for.
Lol “freedom”.
Yeah right. Our state outlaws a plant that all our surrounding states have made legal but we’ve got Free in our motto so it must be true.
On the bright side we have no income or sales taxes, and we’re eliminating interest and dividends tax in the next few years. If you’re into guns, our gun laws are very relaxed compared to other New England states (except for Maine, their laws are also very relaxed). On top of this we’re one of the safest states in the US in terms of violent crime.
interest and dividends tax gets paid by basically no one...
The exemption is around $2.400 if I can recall. So basically unless you have a lot of money in corporate bonds (I’m guessing treasuries are exempt from I&D tax but don’t quote me on it) or a lot of stock that pays out high dividends, you’re probably not going to owe anything. You might be able to get around it if you get dividends in the form of stock instead of cash but I honestly don’t know.
Freedom? Interesting....
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