How much should I charge for rent?
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Ask people that rent our property in your area.  I'm sure they can give you some straight answers.
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There are many apartments in this price range. More details are needed to really answer proficiantly.\n\nI suggest you go to the FREE service called Rent.com\n\nYou can enter your specifics and then chose an area that will be meet your specific needs\n\nI wish you the best in all that you do!
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There are private homes that are rented and most often, you could see it on the newspaper ads. As for "cheap rent", I don't know how much your budget is. I have a friend who rent and for 3 bedrooms/2 bathrooms costs them $1,800.00 a month! I think it's ridiculous to rent in that amount when you could own a house and pay the same amount each month and you're investing your money in some ways and of course, you could declare it as well at the end of the year on your taxes.
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If you want to manage the property yourself and keep all the income then you will not want to hire someone to rent it out for you. This usually costs 1/2 to a full month's rent.\n\nAll you really need to do is get all the paperwork to make its legal when you rent it out. You can find organizations online that will have all this plus. I use this place:\n\nhttp://www.iera.org/\n\nYou will want to find a similar place in your area so they are familiar with your paperwork and laws. So you get a bunch of paperwork and help with being a landlord for your first time. They even have a lawyer you can talk to for free if anything ever comes up. You will have forms provided you didn't even know you needed like a lead based paint disclosure, and a fire alarm battery disclosure. Just running off to staples to get the rental agreement is not enough. Talk to a management company about all the forms they use if you want to find out without joining an organization.\n\nThe next thing you want to do is make sure you screen your tenants. There are many online services, but use a service in your area for the first time so you can talk to them and ask questions. Make sure you get the premium package that has criminal, employment, credit, and rental histories checked. It is about $35 and you charge the potential tenant(don't charge more its illegal to make money on this). Above all listen to what the screener says, if they say no its because they got a bad feeling about the people.\n\nThen you simply post a sign out front (which gets a lot of interest) and put an ad in the paper. You can get creative and use other advertising places if you like. Then you have to be willing to show it to potential tenants and answer their questions on the phone. If you don't want to do all of this then you wont have much cashflow on the house since the management company will take around 10% (some advertise lower rates but then charge for things like phone calls so it bumps it back up). \n\nGood luck
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Checkout Craiglist and rent.com and that should give you a good idea.
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What could she get if she were renting to someone else?  Business is business.  Most people have rental properties to make money.  A lease would protect you as well.  Perhaps someone has offered to pay her $1,900/month and sign a lease and she is offering you the deal first.  Sorry if this sounds harsh, but you are not a guest in your mother's home, you are a tenant.
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Whenever a fledgling leaves the nest there is concern over whether they can cope or not. Since you are planning on remaining in the same general area and in contact with family and friends there is no reason why you should not rent somewhere for yourself.\n\nYou may find it is easier dealing with the people who make you angry when you dont have to live with them and can just walk away and go home to somewhere else.\n\nSome people do far better emotionally living independantly. You may be one of those people.\n\nYou have discovered the hard way that some problems do take two people to solve and the other person does not always want to resolve anything. The only person you can change is you. The only person you can control is you. \n\nIt is a mature decision to remove yourself from a volatile situation. I would suggest that you do get some counselling as well just to give you some support while you start off your new life as an independant adult.\n\nEarning $400 per week means you should be looking for a rental that is less than $200 per week so you have some money for other expenses. It wont be easy and you wont have much to splash around on fun things but you will manage if you are careful and a bit wise.\n\nYou will need the equivalent of 4 weeks rent for bond and you need to pay 2 weeks rent in advance as well. You will also need money to have power connected and for phone connection. This means that for a $200 per week home you will need to have saved $1300 minimum to get you started. \n\nIf you do not already have some furniture you can choose to buy just the absolute essentials to begin with and add other things later. Check the trading post newspaper each Thursday and read the weekend paper classfied for garage sales to pick up some bargains. \n\nMost of all just take a deep breath and go out there and have yourself a big adventure! And enjoy the process.
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Contact your city's hosuing authority, tell them you would like to list a house with them to rent... then they will put you on a list...people will contact you to look at the property.  You screen your own applicants.  Generally it is best to not try and collect a full deposit from then (25 to 50% or none).  Section 8 will then inspect the house and make sure it is up to code.  Then, the applicant becomes your tenant, they pay you a copay (for a three bedroom house it could be like $125 dollars) and the government sends you a check for the rest.
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around $5000. per month depending on the location
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They say that housing should cost 25%-35% of your income so that would be anywhere from at LEAST $2285 - $3200 per month.
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Better idea....\n\nPAY YOUR RENT.
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It depends greatly on where you are. If the property is in an area where real-estate is growing at 20% annually, then you can even pay people to stay in your place and make a nice return. However, if you expect the property to appreciate only 2% a year, then you will need to charge a lot more.\n\nWhat you need to do is figure out what your annual costs are (cost of capital, taxes, insurance, maintanence, etc) then subtract how much you think the property will appreciate in that year, and the difference will be the minimum you could charge for yearly rent to simply break even (divide by twelve for monthly). To that, add whatever amount you feel the market would bear to provide profit and cover any eventual risks or times of vacancies.
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Do you mean rent? Well, rent is climbing pretty high in Chicago and finding a place for under $500 a month that isn't overrun by rates or currently on fire is going to be hard. If you raise it a bit to say $550 or $600 you might find something. Check out the Chicago Reader's online housing search. It's pretty good. Link is below.\n\nActually check out the second link. It's is a search I did for studio and one bedroom for $400-$550. There are a few.
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Prorated rent should be the total monthly rent divided by 30 or 31 days, multiplied by the number of days you are renting.  If this is a short term rental that is day to day without any lease agreement, the landlord will likely charge more than that because of the uncertainty in the length of your tenancy.
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Be very honest with any property pwner you are looking to rent from.  Tell them the details of your situation and let them decide if they want to give you the benifit of the doubt.  Don't try to hide is as it always crops up when you do that.
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That depends on:\n1.The area your in.\n2.If you use your own equipment and products.\n I would call all the services in your area, ask them how they go about bidding on jobs, and how much they charge, (per building, per office, per sq. feet), etc. They don't know if your a customer or not right? \nHere's an excellent website that should give you what you need in inhttp://www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.htmlfo. and more. Good luck!
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Personally if they are newer tenants I'm at their door on the second of the month asking where the rent is.  If I do that a couple of times they seem to get the message.\n\nBe careful with late payment fees.  Many states control the earliest you can charge them and how much you can charge.  I too tried the idea of a discount if rent is received by the first and a small claims judge ruled that it was a transparent late fee that was charged too early, cost me about $225 including court costs.\n\nIf the tenant isn't on a lease (which I never do) and they are often late - raise the rent.\n\nIn my humble experience leases only protect the tenant and provide the landlord very little advantage.  The tenants usually don't have that much to lose, and it's not worth my time to chase them for less that $1,500