How do I find an apartment for just the summer?

Amanda S: How do I find an apartment for just the summer?
My friend and I are two college students who want to find an apartment that we can live in for just the summer. Neither of us have ever rented an apartment for so we’re new to the process, but all the apartments we find are for long term. Are there apartments out there that people can rent for just the summer and if so how do I go about finding them?

Answers and Views:

Answer by fmxkrazyone
Look for someone renting out a “summer house” or a place with a month to month lease. They do exist, it’s tough finding them sometimes. Try apartments.com, they usually have lots of listings.

Answer by candice
Usually the newspapers in the area that you would like to be in list summer rentals. The only problem is that they are quite expensive. Also check with real estate agents, many people lists their properties with them so they don’t have to bother with the details.

Answer by woman of faith
Find a student who wants to go home for the summer, and can sub-let their apartment to you. Inquire at some of the university offices or place an ad in that paper, asking for a sub-let.

Answer by Saira C
You look for a sublease. Usually it is only for a few months. Check out Craigslist.com and search it out. You can also search under temporary. Many come furnished. Its not hard to find. Good Luck.

Answer by sophieb
it depends on where you are, where you want to go, if you’re going there to be at the beach, etc. For instance, some places here in Florida will let you sign a lease for 6 months. More and more have changed over to the one-year lease and it’s getting harder and harder to find rentals, so it depends on where you want to go. Why not check out rent.com or apartment.com (and there are loads of others), put in the amount you want to pay and let it pull up the different apartments and check out if those will rent for 6 months. Sometimes you can sign the contract and rent the place for 6 months but stay there for only 4, the catch is that you have to pay for the 6 months. But gee say you did rent that place for 6 months $ 3600 and figured if you stayed in a hotel for $ 35 to $ 135 a night would you make out if you stayed just 4 months? It’s up to you. Anyway, you can phone those places that have the 6-month rentals and ask them all the questions you like. As I recall you have to be 18 to rent a place, I presume you’d need a credit card or a checking account to pay the deposit with (preferably a credit card), you’d need transportation and money upfront, and of course all the necessities you’d use once you moved into that apartment. Remember to save money for food, electric, water and elect and water deposits….and bring your cell phones

Answer by babypocket2005
There are a few ways.

Look in the classifieds for apartments to sublet or assign. Look to assume the lease of someone who’s term is up at the end of summer.

Or, find a place that rents month to month. The trick with those is that you have to keep checking back for availability as the suites come up fast and go down fast.

Or, place an ad that you’re looking for a place for just the summer and maybe someone will phone you.

Answer by wickdsinnr
All of the above answers are good, except I want to caution you that many leases prohibit subleasing. If you sublease from someone who is on a lease at an apartment community, and that person’s lease doesn’t allow subleasing, you may be in danger of being tossed out rather quickly. In Colorado, you get three days before a motion is filed in court, and not only will the person who is subleasing to you be on the writ, but you will too.

Ask the person you are subleasing from if subleasing is allowed (if that person is renting his or her place from the apartment community) and then call the management office to ensure that it is allowed.

Most apartment communities do not offer short-term leases because the cost to make the apartment ready for the next person is expensive. Even if you only live there for three months, it may require paint, carpet cleaning, professional cleaning, not to mention marketing costs. We estimate that every time someone moves from our community, it costs us $ 2000 to market, clean up, as well as the cost of our employees to show it, and do paperwork involved by closing out the previous tenant and moving in the new tenant. That is why you don’t see most leases for less than 9 – 12 months anymore.