Not first month plus deposit. The whole list, with a switch on every line, seeded with the real median rent at the size you pick from the bank of November 7, 2026. Switch off what is not yours and the number at the bottom is yours.
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The application fee is charged per person on the lease and again at every community you apply to. A couple applying to three places pays it six times before anyone has signed anything, and none of it comes back. Our help is free to renters, and the point of it is that you apply once, to a place that will say yes.
47 percent of San Marcos communities are running a concession right now, averaging 7 weeks free, and almost none of it lands on the day you move in. Free weeks are usually spread across the lease or applied at the back end, so the cheque you write this week is the full one. Our true cost calculator turns those weeks into the monthly number they really are.
The rent line is a reading: the median entry rent across the San Marcos communities we price at that bedroom size, from the bank of November 7, 2026, the same figure every card and table on this site shows. Every other line is a range San Marcos communities quote, carried in this page rather than measured, and each one starts at the middle of the range printed beside it. Edit any of them. When a community gives you its own fee sheet, that sheet wins over anything here.
Ask before you sign. Everything above the deposit is negotiable more often than renters expect, and the moment to ask is after they have offered you the unit and before you sign for it.