The search for cheap apartments for rent in the 76262 area can be maddening, correct? Sit down and look at the classifieds, but make sure you have a bottle of Excedrin with you when you do.
We have a helpful suggestion!
First of all, what is cheap? Eight-hundred per month? One-thousand? Fifteen-hundred? If I’m making three-thousand per month, then eight-hundred is cheap, right? But eight-hundred isn’t cheap for someone making minimum wage, or someone trying to “work from home,” trying to make a home business profitable. And let’s face it, the 76262 area is not an inexpensive area to work, live, or play. The same can be said for the 76201, 76210, 76259, 76177 or 76137 areas. North Fort Worth is growing, baby, it is prospering, and prosperity drives prices up, so now people who are looking for a cheap apartment are looking for the nearly-impossible in an area where prices are rising faster than the Texas summer heat. Apts for rent in Fort Worth are not cheap by any definition.
We have a helpful suggestion!
Things are getting so bad, we know of people who are looking for a garage to rent so they can live there . . . a garage . . . as a cheap apartment! And what about those looking for a cheap office in an industrial area? Same problem, different set of parameters . . . how do you find a cheap office in a commercial area that is booming? Or a cheap warehouse for rent around Ft. Worth? Or even a cheap flex space, for goodness sake?
We promised a suggestion, a helpful suggestion, and we are about to deliver on that promise.
Think outside the box!
If you are a student of history, one thing you will learn is that successful people are people who do not allow obstacles to stop them, and they are also people who do not allow themselves to get pigeon-holed into traditional concepts. In other words, what, really, is an apartment? It’s nothing more than four walls where you sleep and relax, correct? Anything over and above that is fluff. So don’t limit yourself in your thinking about what an apartment looks like.
There was an article in the paper the other day about a person who had always wanted some acreage with a nice little farmhouse on it. He had saved and saved, and eventually he had enough money for a nice little five-acre tract, but he didn’t have enough money for a home on that land.
His solution? He purchased a shipping container, used, for fifteen thousand and plopped that container own on his acreage. He spent the next few years retrofitting that shipping container, cutting out windows, cutting out doors, paneling, flooring, putting a ceiling in it, adding insulation and lighting, sandblasting the outside and painting it . . . and in three years he had a nice little studio apartment/home on five acres and he was happy as a clam. The shipping container revolution had another true believer.
Think outside the box!
Do you need more inspiration before you begin your search? Check out the new business park in the Alliance commercial real estate area, Box Office Warehouse Suites, the first, and only North Fort Worth business park made entirely from shipping containers. It just might change the way you think about cheap apartments for rent.
