Does that look accurate to you? --68.66.xxx.x

Bet, as you know, I'm a bit north of Boston. I'm getting $2,000.00 - $2,400.00 for a decent size 1 bedroom & $2,600.00 - $3,000.00 for a 2 bedroom. I have a 3 + bedroom that I'll be renting in the fall & expect to get at least $3,600.00 for it. In all of my units the tenants pay their own utilities. --96.233.xxx.xx

Wow Steve, that is nuts. That is why they are all moving south, lol. "The phone ringing off the hook" here at 1100 for a one bedroom, but as soon as the train gets here, watch out lol --68.66.xxx.x

Are you all talking apartment rents or SFH rents? Or does it really matter? $2,000-$2,400 for a 1 bedroom what? Down here those rents would be for 3/2 SFH house in a Class A neighborhood. --71.207.xxx.xx

Roy, I’m north of Steve over the border in NH and my multi family 1BR are $1500/1600 and my 2 BR are all low at the moment at $1700 (should be $1900 minimum). I offer clean, responsive landlord but not a granite countertop luxury unit. You could add $500-800 onto my rents for the luxury apartments. --73.159.xxx.xx

Down here, minimum wage tenants live in 2/1 houses or apartments located in Class D neighborhoods. Rents are in $400-$600/month range. --71.207.xxx.xx

Roy we are talking Apartments. --68.66.xxx.x

Roy for 1 BR I have 5 single people that earn enough, 2 couples and 1 couple that now has a toddler. The rents have been skyrocketing and it’s still a low vacancy rate up here so nobody is moving. I have 3 that have been there a while so are at $1350-1450. I have mostly couples and one single person that stayed on after the partner split in my 2 BR at the moment but it is usually a mix of couples and families. To find lower rents, you have to move a little more rural and away from the coastal towns/cities. Things won’t change here until more housing stock is built and yes there is weekly talk about needing workforce housing. Our local town facebook page somebody was complaining about customer service going down at the local grocery store and that the cashiers only speak Spanish to each other. The response was nobody here wants to work and they can’t afford to live here so the store is bussing people up from Boston. We bought our house 32 years ago because it was several hundred thousand dollars less to buy a house here than in MA. My husband could commute an hour or less to Boston MA, Portland ME, Manchester NH or Concord NH for work and it allowed me to stay home with our kids. Although rents are high here, they are less compared to Boston and now so many work from home and don’t even have to commute. --73.159.xxx.xx

Still Learning - Let me get this straight. You rent out a 1 bedroom apartment to 4 adults and a toddler? Total of 5 people here. Where does everyone sleep? And who sleeps with who? --71.207.xxx.xx

No, 1 couple with a toddler and the rest are either single people or couples. --73.159.xxx.xx

I look at what everyone else is charging and I think, if I wanted to rent something, which one is the best I can do for my money. If mine is far better than anything else at that price, I can raise what I am asking. If my place is not as good as the others, then I need to lower the rent so I am competing with properties of the same quality. --76.178.xxx.xxx

Oregon. yes good response. I am thinking the same now. " My opinion is that you can not set rent based upon the number of responses you get." --68.66.xxx.x