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Moving out on your own is a big step. It’s time to step into the real world and start looking for your very first apartment (Yay!).

Renting your first apartment can be an exciting experience as you search for the perfect space to express yourself. At the same time though, it can be a stressful experience because of all the decisions that need to be made. You might be thinking, "How am I going to manage moving into my first apartment, take care of bills, balance work and a social life, get my chores done, and not forget anything?"

The warm weather will be here soon and it's never too early to start saving on your energy bill. Instead of turning on your air conditioner, constantly leaving fans on for circulation and other costly actions that will leave your wallet hurting, try these rental living tips to help keep as many pennies in your possession as possible during the hot months.

Have you noticed your dusty baseboards? Don’t worry, we've all been there before. Whether you were practicing your new yoga poses or playing with your cat, when you spend a longer period of time on the floor you get a new perspective of your surroundings. Here are a few rental living tips to help get the baseboards clean in your home.

It's common for us to become “nose-blind” to the smells in our own home. This is no exception for Chico Rental Properties. With cooler weather, we are less inclined to open up our windows to let fresh air in and let the warm, expensive air out. So what is a renter to do?

You first need to figure out what is stinking up the place. Odors can come from your carpet, sofa, washer, toilet, sink, and so much more! It's hard to know how to clean different items in your apartment and how frequently you should clean them. Here are a few general tips to get you on the right track.

Well it has finally happened. You are at a standstill with your apartment searching and you can’t decide which complex is best for you. You've found a few that have things that you love about them - but maybe you have a few things that you dislike about them too. How do you get all of these thoughts out of your head to help you make a decision?

Take a look at your rental. Do you see plain walls, carpet, and rooms that don’t feel like home? Understandably rentals try to keep most of the colors in neutral to try to please future renters. But this doesn’t mean that you have to have a rental that is boring and not decorated. With the right shopping list you can take a room in your Chico rental properties and make it look like it was taken straight out of the Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. 

Searching for an apartment complex to call your new home? Looking at dozens of Chico rental properties can be tiring and can feel as though you're searching in circles. What if you didn’t have to search through dozens of different websites to find your new home and you could be successful by looking at just one website? You've arrived at that site!

You're surfing the rental listings on Craigslist and you see the perfect place for you, but the price seems too good to be true - which means it probably is. 

Keep yourself from getting swindled and protect yourself from replying to a fraudulent posting by reading a few tips to keep you safe while searching for an apartment in Chico or Redding.

If you’re living in Chico you know it's graduation season because there are more bodies than usual walking the streets of downtown Chico, more vehicles than usual driving down our many one-way streets, and many yard sale signs and free furniture signs. Amidst the pomp and circumstance of college and high school graduations, you may be making a move to rental living in Chico California or somewhere else in the world, in which case you are probably overwhelmed with the many things you have to do.