2. What are your top three and bottom three considerations when looking for a purchase or rental? (cost, neighbourhood, schools, proximity to transit, restaurants, etc)
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1. What's your preferred method for finding a new house, condo, or apartment? MLS, Kijiji/Craigslist, Grapevine, other?
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#2would rent be applicable here?
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#31. Location
2. Cost
3. Parking (I live in a fairly active city)
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#4would rent be applicable here?
Sure would if monthly carrying costs are applicable
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#5Get a good agent. They can be very valuable.
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#6CribQ - http://sfbay.cribq.com/
There are other cities it handles (choose the drop down) but it defaults to sfbay (for me) and remembers your subdomain. Anyway, its a cool google map, craiglist, route, list planner mashup a friend made.
There'a an iPhone app for it too.
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#7CribQ - http://sfbay.cribq.com/ There are other cities it handles (choose the drop down) but it defaults to sfbay (for me) and remembers your subdomain. Anyway, its a cool google map, craiglist, route, list planner mashup a friend made. There'a an iPhone app for it too.
Thanks for the reference
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#8I usually use Craigslist or recommendations from people I know who live where I'm moving to.
My number one requirement is FiOS or service with a similar upload and download rates. Rent and the kind of neighborhood are the other two important factors for me.