My brother's 1bd on Logan Blvd went from $995 to $1495 in one year. They were going to do some renovations, but it was mostly the hipster tax.

jimmy two hands wrote:givemenoughrope wrote:Wow. Is this typical of Chicago apts? 3 bed for 1900 with a yard? i assume LS is a decent area.5 years ago you could get one for $1200 - $1400 in Logan. Ours was $1300 for a similar space + a garage spot, after we moved our landlord raised the rent by $500.Our rent has been $1500 for the last 2.5 years. Not surprised it's going up.I'll say, our apartment is has so much square footage that it made finding a house difficult since most places we looked at in Seattle had less finished square footage than what we've had.

tallchris wrote:jimmy two hands wrote:givemenoughrope wrote:Wow. Is this typical of Chicago apts? 3 bed for 1900 with a yard? i assume LS is a decent area.5 years ago you could get one for $1200 - $1400 in Logan. Ours was $1300 for a similar space + a garage spot, after we moved our landlord raised the rent by $500.Our rent has been $1500 for the last 2.5 years. Not surprised it's going up.I'll say, our apartment is has so much square footage that it made finding a house difficult since most places we looked at in Seattle had less finished square footage than what we've had.Dude bought that in '98 for $200k. One unit's rent is very likely more than his mortgage. I think $250k was the magic cutoff number where property taxes went up drastically in Cook County this year. Wonder when it was last appraised/assessed...

I stayed in an Airbnb in Portage Park a month ago. Nice, chilled out neighborhood with a fantastic park. 3 fuckin' Blue Line stops further out than the Logan Square piss subway and I absolutely guarantee you an apartment for under $1,000 can be had. Oh yeah, and stupidly easy residential parking. Wtf, Chicago.

154 wrote:I stayed in an Airbnb in Portage Park a month ago. Nice, chilled out neighborhood with a fantastic park. 3 fuckin' Blue Line stops further out than the Logan Square piss subway and I absolutely guarantee you an apartment for under $1,000 can be had. Oh yeah, and stupidly easy residential parking. Wtf, Chicago.Six years ago, me and the wife bought one of the brick bungalows that are everywhere in Portage Park for $160,000. Prices are still low on property here. Beautiful, quiet neighborhood, two miles up Milwaukee from Logan Square. Since then, I've had seven friends, all move from Logan Square (and one from Bucktown) to Portage Park, and buy their own homes. A few more have moved here and are renting.I lived in a 4 bedroom grey stone in Logan Square, on Palmer, west of Kedzie from 1998 to 2010. We had a little, 2nd floor front porch, a back porch and a backyard. When we moved in, rent was $700. When we moved out, it was $1350, which is about what my mortgage payment is now.

nice community meeting space.

jimmy two hands wrote:catwoman wrote:Logan Square is stupid high rents right now, although if you've got cash to burn, you can always move into one of the new Transit Oriented Development apartment buildings, right off the L.Insane prices, like studios for $1250 or whatever. http://livemica.com/There's a Luxury building, new, down the block, that's even higher priced than that...http://logansquarel.com/Blech. I hate those stupid pieces of shit. Glad to be out of Logan Square now - they built those fuckers with way less parking than what's adequate, with the idea that most people won't own cars and will only use the train. The fuckers renting those units are all gonna have some fucking luxury SUV that takes up 2 parking spots & they'll have to drive 3 block away to park it. Milwaukee avenue is barely recognizable.That's what a bunch of us old-timers kept saying at the community meetings that the alderman and developers had, but we were shouted down by the cycling hipsters, telling us that we were wrong, parking is part of car culture, which they oppose. We also objected to the size and the ugliness of them, but were told that density is a good thing. There were also the affordability people, objecting to the gentrification and pushing out of long time residents. I'm about ready to sell next year, although I think we may be in a real estate bubble that might burst after the elections. I bought here cheap in the late 1990's, but I only in the past year have begun to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, especially at the hipster places.

Okay! Sorry to post here again! I've lived here two years and don't understand how to find an apartment somehow. I'm attempting to "get my shit together" and am starting to search for an apartment again. I'm in my early thirties and keep finding craigslist roommate situations with people in their early twenties and it's just never a good match. Good thing is I have month to month rent.I'm trying to stay under $700 after bills. I have wiggle room. I bumped my craigslist search to $200 over my budget and am still not really finding anything. I get the vibe that finding an affordable apartment is word of mouth? Is there a better place to look than craigslist? I don't have a ton of free time but I'm doing my best to go around looking at signs. Is Hunter Properties cool? I see that stuff very often, it seems affordable, but is giving me bad vibes.

At this point, with that budget in the northside you're probably looking at further northwest neighborhoods. Jeff Park, Portage Park, Norwood Park, etc. Maybe Edison Park, but some of those 'almost-suburbs' have the effect of driving the price back up a bit. Nice, quiet neighborhoods with access to the blue line & Metra but certainly not "cool". I have no internet search advice but craigslist has really taken a shit in other ways in the last 5-ish years. I used to find musical collaborators, jobs, apartments there. That all seems laughable looking through there now.

chrisc wrote:Okay! Sorry to post here again! I've lived here two years and don't understand how to find an apartment somehow. I'm attempting to "get my shit together" and am starting to search for an apartment again. I'm in my early thirties and keep finding craigslist roommate situations with people in their early twenties and it's just never a good match. Good thing is I have month to month rent.I'm trying to stay under $700 after bills. I have wiggle room. I bumped my craigslist search to $200 over my budget and am still not really finding anything. I get the vibe that finding an affordable apartment is word of mouth? Is there a better place to look than craigslist? I don't have a ton of free time but I'm doing my best to go around looking at signs. Is Hunter Properties cool? I see that stuff very often, it seems affordable, but is giving me bad vibes.Non-FM Jonny Kosmos found a studio apartment in Albany Park/Mayfair for $700 back in February. They're few and far between but you can find stuff in your price range up here on the northwest side like 154 says. If you're still looking for a place in September/October, hit me up, I may have an opening in my building around that time.