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September 2012 Availability: 140,000 Apartments Projected to Rent

By Michelle Shwarzstein | Published: January 18, 2012

Moving in September?  It may be time to start looking for apartments.  Apartments in Boston available for September 1st come off the market faster than you may think.

  1. 9% of the total expected inventory has come on the market to date
  2. 1% of the total inventory has already been rented
  3. An additional 10-15% is expected to rent between February and March
  4. The rest of the inventory will become available 60-120 days before the lease expires

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Don’t Miss Out On A Gem: Consider Apartment Listings Without Pictures

By Michelle Shwarzstein | Published: January 5, 2012

In the case of apartment listings, a picture is not always worth a thousand words.  

I fully understand the appeal of seeing an image of an apartment before seeing it in person.  Theoretically, by looking at a few images you’d get an accurate sense of what the apartment looks like.  At least more accurate than any description could be.  This could not be farther from the truth.

Don’t Trust Every Image You See

To get a sense of just how deceiving some images can be, here are a few examples of false images or photo fakeouts of hotels and resorts from www.oyster.com.

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