Rental $$ Reality Check

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

4 rm apt – 1 bedroom, living room, "middle" (dining, I guess) room & kitchen. Decent windows. Tired wood floors.
Hasn't been painted in many years, kitchen very shabby, hasn't been updated since 1950's (think: double, chipped porcelain sink on a tin cabinet), except for "self-stick" floor tiles that are all cracked and loose. No kitchen cupboards but there is a pantry. Bathroom rehabbed with "bottom shelf" Home Depot fxtures 10 years ago but now is tired.

Saving graces: quiet street, easy on-street parking and easy walking distance to DS. In apt hook-ups for W & D

Anyone have thoughts on what something like this would rent for in the current DS market? I haven't been "out there" for a long time and am facing a "should I stay or should I go" moment in light of a huge rent increase.

Comments

[alphacygni]

Is the living room a peninsula sort of a room off the middle room? Perhaps someone informed your landlord that they could decide to call that a second bedroom, and dollar signs started dancing in front of their eyes.

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

The living room is street side off a corridor to the front door. It has a double wide entrance with no door. The "middle" or dining room is off the kitchen, also no door. The bedroom is off the middle room. Pretty standard layout for around here.

Yes, my landlord has referred to it as a "two bedroom apt".