Apartment Leasing

Here’s How Much Space Dallas-Fort Worth Renters Can Get for $1,500

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 28, 2022 /

Your monthly rental budget is $1,500. How much apartment space can you get in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with that kind of dough? RENTCafé answered that question and offered an even more national perspective in a recent analysis of apartment costs. The nationwide apartment listing service calculated the costs using price per square foot derived…

Fitness-Minded Renters in Texas Don’t Have an Excuse For Not Working Out

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 26, 2022 /

Texas dominates RENTCafé’s study with Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio rankings first through fourth. Houston has 440,000 apartment units, more than Dallas and Austin combined.

As Rents Are On The Rise, So Are Apartment Sizes, Report Says

By CandysDirt / July 1, 2021 /

From Staff Reports Back at the start of the last decade, the average apartment size in McKinney, Texas, was 937 square feet. And toward the end of the past decade, apartments in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb were getting smaller — the average size was 20 square feet smaller. But, after time trapped indoors with the…

Almost 40 Percent of Dallas Apartment Hunters Hail From Elsewhere

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / June 23, 2019 /

By Sania Tran Apartment List According to a new report published by Apartment List, Dallas comes in 11th in the ranking of metropolitan areas that are attracting the most renters from elsewhere. The ranking was determined based on the share of inbound searches coming from outside the metro — 39.4 percent of those looking for…

RealPage Dinged by FTC for Misidentifying Housing Applicants as Criminals

By Shelby Skrhak / October 18, 2018 /

It’s a problem that people with common last names face often: being mistaken for another with the same name and birthdate. But Richardson-based RealPage, which provides tenant screening information to landlords and property managers, ran into trouble when the FTC found their tenant screening software misidentified potential renters as criminals, who then were turned down…