I know there are plenty of threads but I'm looking for these specific parameters:

-Preferably a townhouse vs. an apartment
-Rent ~925 or less, starting in August
-Within a reasonable commute to downtown Raleigh & NCSU
-The kicker: It will be occupied by three people for 6 months and two people for the second 6 months. Ideally, it'd be a pricey 2 bedroom with an additional office/study/small guestroom or a 3 bedroom within the price range. Sharing a bedroom is out of the question

Be helpful, oh TWW

[Edited on January 31, 2011 at 10:34 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2011 10:34:17 PM

how will the 3 roommate situation work out in a 2 BR townhouse?

will somebody be willing to sleep on a couch for 6 months?

1/31/2011 10:37:15 PM

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"Ideally, it'd be a pricey 2 bedroom with an additional office/study/small guestroom"

We've seen a couple of these off Claiborne Court last summer, but looking for options, yo.

1/31/2011 10:39:51 PM

Try entering "townhome" on Google maps and see what comes up in the NCSU area. That's one tool I use while hunting and it can be pretty helpful since it'll show you the monthly rent on the dots that come up.

1/31/2011 10:45:49 PM

I lived here for a while and liked it:

http://www.sumtersquareapartments.com/

It has 2 br townhouse apartments, and 3 br single level apartments so its not exactly what you're looking for. But one of the 2br was a good bit larger than the other in 2 people didn't mind sharing a room (whether by having a temp wall divider, or curtain, or bunk beds, or just openly sharing a single room). A fold out couch bed for the temporary 6 monther downstairs could also work at a place like that (or rotating occasionally?). It did have 3 closets upstairs though:

1/31/2011 10:50:19 PM

Well this just may be your lucky day. I have a friend with a townhome that meets your exact requirements, only missing the target rent by $70 (he's asking $995/mo). In Hunters' Creek on Kaplan Drive, 3br/2.5 bath, with the (large) downstairs bedroom perfect for repurposing as a TV room/den/game room after roommate #3 moves out. Plenty of space, 1650 square feet. I lived there for just under 2 years and was quite happy.

Only catch is that it's actually vacant now--he's looking for a 6 month lessee currently, but if he gets someone who wants a year, it may not be open in August. But give him a call and take a look at the place.

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=600895
http://www.4413kaplandrive.com

1/31/2011 11:10:57 PM

isn't that the area where i'm gun get raped at tree and thieves?

2/1/2011 12:17:11 AM

your description fits Method Townhomes

owned by Preiss, which isn't great but that's how it rolls in this area.

They may not be fly with 6 months though.

2/1/2011 1:13:34 AM

^^It's a block away and that makes all the difference. The sketchy folk don't make it all the way down to Kaplan--like I said, lived there for two years. Car was never broken into, house never broken into, nothing stolen off the deck. No sketchy folk showing up at odd hours of the night, or of the day for that matter. Felt safe the entire time I was there.

2/1/2011 1:17:02 AM

"owned by Preiss"

Time for the PSA (only repeating what other tdubbers have said):

Fucking Preiss Company
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=578738

Quote :

"The bottom of my toilet is leaking what appears to me to be blackwater, its sinking into the floor from water damage, my water bill has been 100 dollars every 2 months (for 2 people who dont use that much water) and there are trees growing out of my gutters."

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"Its Prei$$ Company what the fuck do you expect."

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"Yeah, the whole time I lived in my apartment I lived in mold. Called them several times and they never did anything."

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"preiss sucks"

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"It's like you expect them to care. Preiss Company is terrible."

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"I too rented from the Prei$$ Co., and they suck donkey balls."

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"Why do people rent from Preiss Company still?"

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"thats what i don't get, they've had a terrible reputation since at least spring 97 when i started at NCSU, so i'd imagine that any amount of research would yield enough horror stories to keep me away. i've never rented from them myself, but a lot of it is because of all he bad things i've been forced to hear about them while in raleigh and on tww"

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"when my internet jack died. I asked them to fix it. They said they weren't responsible for that and to call the ISP. So, I did that. Made the mistake of calling the Customer Support number and ended up talking to some guy I could barely understand about how to do ipconfig and iprelease. After banging my head on the wall from talking to that guy, I found a number a little higher up the chain of command, called and got a repair guy to come fix it. He told me my ethernet jack was broken on my laptop and that's why I couldn't get online. I had to practically twist his arm to get him to check the freakin' wall jack. He finally did and said "Oh....looks like your jack is dead." I swear, if ppl just listened to me in the first place things would've gone so much smoother! Well, when the repair man finished fixing my jack, he said "Yeah, equipment out here gets fried often because these apartments aren't grounded well and the Preiss company refuses to fix the issue. So whenever there's a storm, something goes down." Also, the ISP hyperlink internet is certainly pitiful as far as bandwidth, but they also monitor your connection for torrent traffic and will cut off your internet service due to "malicious content on your connection" if they sense it. /Preiss Rant"

Before renting with the preiss company....
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=513367

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"First the most disgusting. There are rats in our apartment. My roommate and I are very clean, so to see rats in apartment is appalling. We told them about this in the beginning of June and it took them almost until August to come check it out. It is febuarary and we still have them. They put down some glue traps and caught three with three glue traps, but doesn't that signal you might need an exterminator and not just glue traps. After about a week of catching rats they said they would come back and exterminate and they never did. We have light switches that do not work. When we complained, the maintenance man called us back and asked if we unscrewed it and checked such and such wires. I mean come on. I pay rent here and maintenance is included. If I am going to be expected to do my own maintenance I should get a discount. I mean I did not go to state to get my maintenance degree. My roommates ceiling started to leak because the upstairs bathroom began to leak and messed up his ceiling and bathroom real bad. This happened in Aug. and they did not come to fix it until almost Jan. They also have called me on several occasions with an attitude about overdue charges, but every time I have to remind them either I already paid or have to dig up my money order for proof of payment since they can not afford to give me a receipt. It would not be so bad if they did not have such an attitude when they called."

preiss co
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=397366

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"I have heard of were that they lose rent checks, so you can solve that by getting a receipt, simple enough. I've never had a problem, there's one girl there though that always acts like she has a pole up her butt but that's more of a personality problem, not really a management problem that would actually affect you."

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"Yes... I'd third all of that. The company itself is EXTREMELY disorganized. Let me say that again... EXTREMELY DISORGANIZED So, that being said... make sure that you check over everything yourself and know that you have your end of everything covered completely. I looked at Preiss company apartments, and although I am currently living in one of their complexes, I went the private owner route because I was very unimpressed with the way they handled showing us locations for rent. Also, I called in reference to a few of the houses that they have for rent in the area just about a month ago... they were not helpful at all. They knew nothing about the properties that they had for rent and refused to answer any of my specific questions. They directed me to their website which I had already perused and which did not have the answer to my question. Hope this helps and that your experience with them will be better than mine! Oh yeah... I forgot to mention... we had an issue that was very specific to our situation and we had to get special directions from Preiss company to figure out how to handle it. Needless to say, it took weeks for us to actually get through all the levels of management and find a solution, which wasn't really a solution at all. Haha... but in between talking to all the different people, someone got confused... and they had something installed that doesn't make any sense whatsoever (just because they didn't understand the issue at hand). Anyway, just one of my many personal examples of them being hard to deal with."

Non-Preiss Company 4-bed apartments in raleigh?
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=595806&page=1#14033172

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"Some friends and I are looking for a decent 4-bedroom apartment or townhouse that is generally near campus. Nearly every source says that Preiss Company sucks, so we'd like to avoid them."

full price for half month's rent?
http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=598478

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"I sadly signed a lease with preiss in june. They're telling me that i'm supposed to pay full price for august, but they're not letting me move in until the 15th. Can I contest this? I sent an email about it, and requested a copy of my contract... I don't remember seeing that I had to pay $200 some-odd for not shit..."

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"I've subleased, they fucking suck."

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" i stopped reading the thread right there. Whatever you're complaining about is the way its going to be. Good luck fighting it"

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"WTH is wrong with you people? 1. Don't rent from Preiss. 2. If you did rent from them grow a pair and don't let them walk all over you."

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"Priess company sucks balls."

1st ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST BLOCK PARTY: The PREISS CO.

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=602398&page=1#14296273

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"Priess company is run by a bunch of money grubbing scumbags."

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"Man the Preiss Company sucks pretty bad. "

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"Unfortunately, there's always a new crop of new students who don't know what they're getting into."

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"Is there no way to let it be known to new students that the Preiss Co. will screw them over?"

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"There are so many things wrong with the Prei$$ company"

What are you thinking about at this very moment?

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=565539&page=1676#14262443

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"fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company fuck you, preiss company"

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"tomorrow: dealing with the f'ing Preiss Company then driving to AL "

1st Annual Oktoberfest Block Party - Presented by the Preiss Company

http://thewolfweb.com/story.aspx?story=1223

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"They better tow the idiots that don't live there this year.. It's complete BS that residents can't park because of a bunch of drunk 30 somethings that want to hit on 18 year olds."

2/1/2011 1:26:56 AM

Durham, near duke, nice neighborhood, 3bd 3.5bath each bedroom is pretty big, could put in a king in easy, in all rooms
ethernet wired to great room and all bedrooms
tile and wood on the main floor and half bath
2 bed 2 bath upstairs
basement level bedroom and bathroom. (entire full sized floor)

rent 990/month

you guys can have a room empty if you want, rent stays the same.

25-30 minutes from downtown, located very close to I-85, 15-501, and NC147 (durham freeway)

2 minutes from cookout

probably not what you were thinking though in terms of location. but something to think about. for that price in raleigh you're gonna get screwed on the rent

2/1/2011 1:44:18 AM

^2 hahahaha the 2 from the WAYT thread were both mine

they really do fucking suck

2/1/2011 1:50:08 AM

Surprisingly there's one exception to Preiss for their apartment complexes.

The only one they don't own, Blue Ridge Apartments, which is brand new, is fucking fantastic.

But it's fantastic because it's brand new and Preiss just manages their leases, they don't own the property.

2/1/2011 2:10:16 AM

Bumpety bump

2/1/2011 7:09:44 PM

Bump. I'm also looking for a 2br/3br Townhouse (preferably not apartment) available in May. Do you guys have any suggestions or do you know of a good place online to search for these? I keep finding a lot of apartments but not many townhouses online.

3/8/2011 9:10:13 PM

Check out Raleigh Towne Apartments on Wade - They're 2br/ 2.5b townhouses at Wade & Glenwood.

Rent is ~$950 and heat is included.

3/8/2011 9:43:12 PM

***UPDATE***

Definitely looking for a 3br in late July/early August.

I'm really looking into the Trinity Square development at the intersection of Edwards Mill and Corinthian Way (homes on Eolian Ct, Lake Moraine Place, Arete Way, Garnet Ridge Way, Corinthian Way). Anyone know of someone who rents out a home there?

3/10/2011 12:11:29 AM

that is very specific

3/10/2011 12:19:33 AM

are you picking on me with your sarcasm, sir?

3/10/2011 12:22:09 AM

no

3/10/2011 12:31:24 AM

you might as well say 'i really like 66-A on Main St, anyone know who owns that one?'

3/10/2011 9:46:39 AM

I figured someone on tww knows someone who rents out a property there since it's filled with state alums due to its proximity to carter finley/rbc center.

3/10/2011 10:41:03 AM