[Vision2020] Rent Prices Was: Sen Schroeder

Fri Feb 20 08:42:50 PST 2009

Jennifer -

Perhaps what we need, until suitable low-income housing is built and made 
available, is rent control on those facilities currently housing low-
income families.

If rent is as outrageous as you reflect, the situation requires that 
limits/restrictions be enacted.

Thoughts?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> A young friend of mine is a student at Idaho and lives in a house with 5
> other girls. With all due respect to my friend, the house they rent is in
> horrible shape, and they pay more than what my brother pays for a similar
> sized house that overlooks the lake (beautiful views from the wrap-around
> deck) near Seattle in the city of Shoreline. While not all property
> management companies are taking advantage of renters, some are (though I
> suspect that is the case anywhere). College towns seem to be more 
inflicted
> by rent inflation than other areas (fair or not). Comparing Moscow to 
Boise
> or Coeur d'Alene isn't realistic; Boise isn't a college town-neither is 
CDA.
> You pay to live in a town that has accessibility to more cultural events 
and
> entertainment as well as to higher learning. 
> 
>  
> 
> Jennifer L. Ingalls
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-
bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:58 PM
> To: Chasuk
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rent Prices Was: Sen Schroeder
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Here is what is on Craigslist.
> 
>  
> 
> Feb 18 - $950 / 4br - <http://pullman.craigslist.org/apa/1040825616.html>
> Older home 41/2BR 11/2BA - (Public Ave, Moscow)
> 
> Feb 15 - $1395 / 4br - 5 
<http://pullman.craigslist.org/apa/1036354824.html>
> Bath House, Pet/Horse OK - (Colfax) pic
> 
> Jan 29 - $1395 / 4br - 4 
<http://pullman.craigslist.org/apa/1013041656.html>
> Bed, 5 Bath House, Dog/Cat/Horse OK - (Colfax) pic
> 
> Jan 21 - $850 / 5br - <http://pullman.craigslist.org/apa/1001751033.html>
> Large home for rent - (Garfield) pic
> 
> Jan 20 - $1195 / 4br - 
<http://pullman.craigslist.org/apa/1000840245.html>
> 828 N. Grant - (Moscow) pic
> 
> 
> Average the house price for a 4 bedroom home: $1097
> 
> Add in WSG and electricity which most renters have to pay in homes and 
that
> is over $1200. Most the homes in Moscow are really old too, built before
> dirt was invented. 
> 
> If you buy a house, the average mortgage in Moscow is almost $200,000, 
which
> means a monthly payment of $1200 or a month unless your have a high down 
and
> a 720+ FICO.
> 
> The apartments you have lived in Chas, were in all honestly, not that 
nice.
> I have seen them. Some smell like dog sh*t and cat piss even, and plenty 
of
> smokers around, I kid you not. I have been to almost every apartment 
complex
> in Moscow, and unless you are living in subsidized housing, you are 
paying
> at least $550 a month for a large one bedroom or two small bedroom one 
bath,
> or you are living in something small or nasty. Most of them are older
> apartments too, around for my parents or when my sister was a Frosh at 
UI. 
> 
> In the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley, and most other cities in Idaho, 
you
> can rent a newer three or four bedroom 2 or three bath home for $850 and 
in
> some places $700 a month that has a two or three car garage and and about
> 1200-1600 Sq.ft. That is the common rate. Not a beat up 50 year old 
house on
> a gravel road next to a wheat field with a one legged dog that chases 
your
> pickup every time you drive down your driveway. 
> 
> In addition, the average household income in Latah is below $26,000 a 
year,
> although it is slightly higher in the city. This is much lower than in 
other
> parts of the state. So you have higher housing costs, and lower income.
> Which is why so many people in Moscow are living below or just over the
> poverty level. 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Donovan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Rent Prices Was: Sen Schroeder
> To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7:16 PM
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 18:08, Donovan Arnold
> 
> 
> <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> > I am sure we have heard more. And so they wonder why rent is $1200 a 
month
> 
> 
> > in Moscow and $700 a month in the Treasure Valley,
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> Rent is $1200 a month in Moscow?  That certainly isn't an average, or
> 
> 
> even the mean.  I've never paid more than $600 a month in Moscow, and
> 
> 
> I've lived in some pretty nice apartments.  I'm renting a 4 bedroom
> 
> 
> home now, and I don't pay $1200 a month, or anywhere near it.
> 
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