![]() The next dozen or so apartments were pretty similar. Still, three people showed up to see it in the 15 minutes I was there. Its floorboards were warped, all the appliances looked at least 30 years old (and not in a cool, charming way) and it was boiling hot inside. The first apartment I saw was a dive in North Park for $1,295 a month that looked like it was about to collapse. It took just two days for me to fight against every thrifty bone in my body to increase what I would spend from $1,250 to $1,300 to $1,350. Out of 129,706 apartments in the MarketPointe study, 3,669 were vacant. County studios rented for an average $1,301 a month in September and a one bedroom was $1,401. The county as a whole is fairly similar, says MarketPointe Realty Advisors, which conducts a wider rental survey of large apartment complexes. The average rent in San Diego for a one-bedroom unit is $1,460 a month, according to the San Diego County Apartment Association, and the city has a low vacancy rate of 4.2 percent. ![]() Ignorance of what neighborhood I was in most of the time was exacerbated only by a rental market that has seen prices increase - up to 6 percent in the last 12 months - and vacancy rates plummet.
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