How do you decide which one wins a row?

By the number, and only where a lower or higher number is plainly better. Cheaper rent wins, more square feet wins, a shorter drive wins, more weeks free wins, a higher Google rating wins. Rows where better is a matter of taste get no winner mark at all.

Why is a row missing?

Because we do not have that fact for any of the three. A row of three dashes teaches nobody anything, so it is left out. The rows you see are the ones with real numbers behind them.

Is the cheapest one the best deal?

Often not. Compare the price per square foot row and the net effective row together: a community with two months free can beat a cheaper one on what you actually pay over a twelve month lease, and a big cheap floor plan can beat a small expensive one on the space you get.

Can you compare more than three?

Three is what fits on a phone without scrolling sideways, which is where most people actually make this call. Send us five and we will send back a written comparison of all of them.

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Put three communities side by side.

Rent, price per square foot, what a special is really worth, the drive, the school district, the Google rating and what each one publishes. The better cell in each row is marked.

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Pick two or three communities above and the comparison builds itself.

How to read it

The two rows people skip, and shouldn't

Price per square foot is the one that settles arguments. A one bedroom at $1,200 in 700 square feet and a one bedroom at $1,350 in 950 square feet are not close: the second is cheaper for what you get, every month, for a year.

Net effective is what a concession is actually worth. Two months free on a twelve month lease is not two months of your life for free, it is that discount spread across the whole term. We show both the sticker and the spread number so you can see the gap.

A special ends. The rent it was hiding does not. Ask what the renewal rate looks like before you sign for the concession, and if the leasing office will not say, that is an answer too.

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The rent history

Every banked point per community, drawn.

The price change log

Every move we detect, posted.

The live map

Everything, with every filter.

True cost calculator

Rent plus the fees nobody quotes.

How we score a community

The rubric behind the class grades.

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