I haven't had much experience with moving and finding places to rent. I lived at home until I went to college. When I went to college I was fortunate enough to have an aunt who had a room to rent nearby the college I attended. When I got married and moved here to the US, my husband already owned his own home. Consequently, I'm not familiar with the hassles involved with finding good rental property.

On the other hand, my husband, before he bought the home we now live in, has had many experiences of moving and renting. He has had some good experiences, some bad experiences and some really ugly experiences. Over the years he learned to be quite skeptical and cautious when choosing rental property. Moving is usually a big hassle so it is much easier to find a good place and stay a while rather than moving from place to place often. Like everything else in the world involving people, there are good and bad landlords. In the past, it has often been difficult to differentiate between the two.

Finding apartments for rent has become so much easier now with the advent of the internet. There are websites available where apartment seekers can type in all the relevant information including location, price, number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and every other detail that you can think of. The information on the websites often include photos, and other pertinent information that can help the renter simplify his search for a place to live enormously.

 The website, Move.com, even gives tips on moving, leasing, and reading the fine print in rental agreements. My husband says that he wished that kind of help would have been available to him when he was young man. It would have save him lots of headaches and extra moves.

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