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You can afford the rent. Can you afford the move?

Before You Sign Your First Lease: What It Costs to Move In - and Stay There

A free guide to the real cost of a first place: what you hand over before you get the keys, and what the ordinary months cost after that.

What is inside

  • The move-in worksheet: every dollar due before you get the keys, in one place.
  • The ordinary-month worksheet: rent plus the costs that arrive with it.
  • What a lease is actually promising, in plain language.
  • The questions to ask before you sign, and the answers that should worry you.
  • What a deposit is, when you get it back, and what puts it at risk.

Written for a first lease, a first roommate agreement, or a first move out of a family home.

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