WHAT $500 GETS YOU IN DALLAS | apartment shopping

so everyone thinks that you can move to dallas and literally live in a freaking mansion for like five dollars today i want to show you that that's just not true i have lived in dallas literally like my whole life so i feel like if anyone knows it should be me right my lease actually ends in may at these apartments which i actually really like but because it ends in may and it is currently march i think it's time for me to start apartment shopping and that's what we're gonna do today we're gonna go to two apartments that are below my budget two apartments in my budget and then one apartment that hopefully i can afford in the near future because it is so nice and when you see it you will fall in love too so let's go okay so this is what you see when you first drive up it honestly looks pretty cute from the front but then once you go inside you can see that the pool has not been cleaned in probably months and just the maintenance is not that good it does have black appliances which is not my favorite but the kitchen does come with everything that you need but it does not have actual granite countertops it's those cardboard kind so this apartment does not come with a washer and dryer which is pretty rare here in dallas but they put this here just for display and next to it is the pantry which is a pretty good size then next to the pantry there is a linen closet just for some extra storage and this one actually has a separate dining room which is nice i feel like a lot of the new apartments don't have that the living room was a good size as you can see you can fit a lot in there and then right off of the living room is the bedroom which is a good size but it has no type of natural light so it's super dark in there to the right is the closet and it was pretty small but it works the only weird thing is that you can only turn it on with this string light which kind of makes me uncomfortable and then you go into the bathroom which has basically everything that you need they put nice wood floor in there but again there's no granite countertops it's just a sink a bathtub and a toilet basically everything that you need oh my god okay this is what i mean by people think that you can come to dallas and literally live in a mansion for 500 and i'm like where like show me please this place is for a one bedroom one bathroom it doesn't come with its own washer and dryer which is this is the only place that i'll show out of all of them that doesn't come with its own washer and dryer it's like a super cheap apartment but what really shook me the lady literally was rolling her eyes while she was talking on the phone with someone i don't know but she was literally rolling her eyes in front of me while she was on the phone like girl where is your professionalism but i asked her i was like oh do you live here because normally because normally people that work in like the leasing office they also live at the apartment so i always ask them that i was like so do you live here and she was like yeah girl i live here and i was like oh really like how is it like and she looked at me she was like i'm not allowed to say what what what are you not allowed to say like is it dangerous she was like no like sorry i i can't say anything girl like it's a liability i was like what's the liability she was like i mean if you if you want to know what like the area's like you can come here at night what and then she was like or you can check like the dallas police to see if like this area is high risk or not see but now i'm like there's this man coming towards me i'm like should i move like oh my god i'm scared yeah so i wouldn't recommend moving here you know you get what you pay for i guess okay moving on to property number two this is what you see when you first drive up today was a pretty gloomy day but you can tell how pretty it is okay so when you first walk in the kitchen is on your right and the kitchen has these two storage cubbies as the pantry which are honestly pretty small but they work the microwave and the stove are stacked on top of each other and the kitchen is pretty small as you can see but because of the kitchen island it just feels a lot bigger than it is i do appreciate the stainless steel appliances and this unit is a one bedroom one bath for 945 this one is the renovated one the bedroom is a pretty normal size but the closet is pretty small because they put the washer and dryer inside of the closet which takes away a lot of the space in there given that this is the only space in the apartment i really did like the bathroom though because it felt really big and modern you can tell that they just newly renovated it it has a lot of storage in it and it has actual quartz countertops which just makes it feel a lot newer and higher quality than the apartment that i was at before she didn't show me a gym or any amenities so i don't know if they have that but they did have this nice little barbecue place with lights which was super cute so a lot of apartments here in dallas will show online that they're like 699 but then you come in person and they're like oh actually the one that's 699 is the one that doesn't have a washer and dryer the one that's not renovated and like on the third floor so i came to these apartments and she asked me if i wanted a renovated one or not renovated one i said show me your cheapest renovated one and so she did this is the one bedroom renovated one and it's 949 a month this is definitely the budget apartment of the list it when you look it up on like apartments.com these apartments come up as having apartments for 700 800 and they do have a studio for 835 she said they couldn't show me that because of like corona overall the apartment's cute i wanted to only show apartments that i would actually live in myself like places that i would feel comfortable living at and not be scared and this is definitely one of them so just take that into consideration and now we're gonna move on to the middle which will be between the price range of like a thousand one hundred to 1400ish so this is the first place that they took me and it is their conference room i honestly didn't like it at all i felt like it was really dark and the colors just made me kind of like sad the view is also not that great and it's just like i'm paying so much money for what now this room they really stepped it up a notch and i love the aesthetic in here it looks so nice and the floor-to-ceiling windows really work here because you get a view of downtown like a picture-perfect view so this is a great place to just go and chill but then i went down to the pool and the pool honestly looks really really nice i just feel like this is what all the pools look like at these apartments and then the gym was pretty disappointing because i feel like this is what my gym looks like and i pay a lot less for rent so when you first walk in you have a pretty nice sized kitchen the island is really big you can fit three chairs here and this is what is the pantry and you have a really nice fridge and then the kitchen is just nice like there's no there's no complaints about it everything looks brand new there's a lot of storage which i love honestly there's so much storage like under here um there is no space for a dining room table i'm not the biggest fan of apartments that are literally just like the kitchen and then living room and then bedroom i feel like where am i supposed to put a dining table where am i supposed to put a desk like there's no space for that so it's definitely small like in this area you could only put a a couch and nothing else some apartments have at least like a little bit of space right here this is the living room kitchen area and then to the left is the bedroom you walk in it has a really big window it's a pretty nice size i feel like this bed looks like um it looks bigger than mine so i think this is a king-sized bed from your room you walk in here and you have your bathroom you walk in i mean this is a lot i'm like i'm literally five foot two and this hits me like right here so that's kind of odd i like that it has the bench a lot of places don't have a bench and then you have your toilet obviously and then this is the closet and then that's it that's literally the entire apartment and like i said this apartment is a 14 i think she's at 14.50 but it's literally just kitchen living room bedroom bathroom that's it and then i assume that you have your washer and dryer in here so essentially i mean this apartment has everything that you need but i think it's pretty small for what you're paying and you're literally paying for location so if you want to be close to downtown and you like being in uptown you want to be close to the clubs to the restaurants like everything around here and you want to live in a modern like newly constructed apartment this is what you're gonna have to pay but yeah this is apartment number two this is a middle of a range apartment and then after this i'm gonna go to another one just like this so now i'm at the second apartment that is in like the middle range these apartments are honestly so cute i already went in there to like talk to the guy and now i'm waiting um for like the next 10 minutes because he was like showing somebody else these apartments are located in west dallas which is honestly a pretty new neighborhood i feel like five years ago this didn't exist at all and there's a lot of construction everywhere in west dallas just because it is a new neighborhood these apartments they have um a studio slash one bedroom where there's a wall but there's no like door to go into the bedroom for a thousand one hundred and they have a one bedroom one bath that actually has like a separate bedroom for a thousand two hundred three hundred ish so this one is a little bit cheaper than the one that i was just at and i'm actually really excited because everything here just looks like it's more quality like they have this this is what it looks like on the outside and that up there is a sky deck where i'm assuming you can see downtown because downtown is just right through there okay so this is the studio and immediately i fell in love the bathroom was so much bigger than i thought it was gonna be all the hardware is black everything's brand new the bathtub is a rectangle i didn't really like how that was in the bathroom but i mean it kind of makes sense but other than that i totally totally fell in love with the bathroom and then the closet is huge it even has automatic lights you just have to walk in and it turns on by itself built-in cubbies like i loved it and it was hardwood floors which isn't really a thing um i literally fell in love with this apartment as soon as i walked in and because this was the studio it's cheaper which i even like this one more than the one bedroom one it's so long i feel like i could definitely fit everything that i have in there and even a desk and still have space then you walk into the living area which is a normal size i feel like this is technically a one bedroom but they just call it a studio but has that hollowed out space for you to put either like your tv or whatever you want then you walk into the kitchen and on the left side is a built-in desk which i loved especially if i'm going to be working from home and then on the right side is the kitchen kitchen where you have all of your appliances and all the hardware is black everything's brand new and i loved this deep greenish bluish color that they used and then you go back into the living room and you go out onto the patio which again the black hardware just makes such a difference and the balcony was a pretty good size the railing is black it just all looks so modern cohesive and just nice now the view is not that great and then he took me up to their amenities this is just the lounge area kind of chill area he said that you can either rent this place out or just come up here whenever you want you have the views of downtown right through there and then it's just a place really for you to come and either work or relax or whatever you want and they did have a lot of places like this and smaller version throughout the property but i didn't get any footage of that but it's basically all the same and then you go through these doors and this place was literally amazing you literally get a rooftop deck at your apartment with views of downtown literally like perfect views of downtown and this would be such a cool place during the summer or spring when the weather is nice the construction going on down there is going to be retail so that's even better um i really really like this place up here i didn't get to see the pool but i can insert pictures of it right here that apartment was so cute out of every apartment that i've seen so far it was honestly my favorite the one bedroom studio type of situation like it has a wall and it's a thousand two hundred fifty and i feel like that's actually something that i would be willing to pay i don't think it's ridiculous i mean it has a lot of amenities and on every single floor of the building they have free like water bottle filling stations which is like like it's like small things like that that i'm like okay like i'm willing to pay a little bit more for this but it was actually pretty spacious so far this is the one that i would pick and it's a good representation of what you can get in dallas for a pretty good amount i feel like a thousand two hundred for a one bedroom one bath that's completely new new construction everything is pretty good if you ask me but now we're on our way to this super bougie apartment complex that is way above my budget but i still wanted to show you guys kind of like a low end middle and high end if you're paying more than two thousand dollars for a one bedroom in dallas like wow honestly it was kind of hard to find apartments in dallas that you can like go and just readily tour that were really expensive i feel like paying more than two thousand dollars for a one bedroom one bath in dallas is like super expensive but this apartment complex is really nice it's basically a high rise building literally in the middle of downtown and a one bedroom one bath is minimum 2 169 that's for 700 square feet they have one bedrooms that literally cost seven thousand dollars jesus christ i'm excited i can't afford it and i'm just gonna pretend i can for like the next hour okay so this is what you see when you first drive up it's literally right off of the highway so this is what they first showed me which was on the 14th floor you're literally in the middle of the sky and this is their common area you can get conference rooms like coffee whatever you want in here just chill or work but it just looks so nice and it literally looks like a nice hotel and then i was blown away by the outside area because it just looks so resort like and just you know that this is just expensive you're definitely paying for the amenities here but i think it's pretty worth it the gym had floor to ceiling windows and you're overlooking the pool which by the way the pool is heated year-round and it is saltwater which i've never seen before i mean talk about bougie so the closet in the one bedroom one bath was pretty big i didn't really like the way that it was set up but i do love this tile floor and the shower was amazing it just looks so expensive and rich and honestly the bathroom was a little small for me to pay two thousand dollars a month i was expecting a little bit more but the room was a pretty good size and the really really big windows just make it seem a lot bigger than it really is um the apartment itself was honestly a little small it does have a gas stove and the kitchen island is pretty big the living area is pretty common size but it does have these huge floor ceiling windows and the view from the balcony is amazing you're right on the highway and right in the middle downtown so i mean i think it's worth it they do have stackable washers and dryers which was kind of disappointing for an apartment this expensive this is the bigger version which i liked way more just because there's so much more island space and the layout just seems more like a home and the balcony is also bigger on this one it's like a 200 difference but i think it's totally worth it i mean the view that apartment is so nice i literally like i've been wanting to move out of dallas for literally like the past year and that apartment would make like if someone gave me that apartment i would stay in dallas just to live there the apartment is so nice they literally have a hotel on the first floor where if you have friends or family that want to spend the night they can rent it for a hundred dollars per night and it's like it's like a nice little hotel inside of your apartment building and it just looks i mean look at it it was like 2100 something for the smaller one bedroom and then two thousand three hundred for the bigger one bedroom with like the l shaped island but they're having a special right now where you get like eight weeks free and so the one that's 2 300 ends up being 2 100 per month if you do like a 12 month lease which is like oh my i know my budget is like a lot closer to 1 000 than to 2 000 but oh my god i love it the floor-to-ceiling windows and just being like right on downtown when i opened that sliding door to the balcony it was like a breath of like concrete jungle fresh air just feels so like city-like and i've always lived in like northern dallas like suburb area and it was just nice i was like okay maybe i don't want to leave dallas like maybe i just want to move to downtown in a 2 000 one bedroom apartment ah a girl can dream right but i loved it i loved it i am back home now and honestly out of all the apartments that we looked at the ones in west allis were honestly my favorite i feel like the layout the colors the just everything about it felt so like young but like in the best way possible like young grown but like i have money you know those are the vibes that like i'm striving for if i had to pick one of them it would be that one because i can't move into the high rise because it's so so expensive some of the apartments like i said are not the best so like i definitely want to move somewhere that i feel comfortable like walking around at night like my apartments right now i know i can like walk outside at 2 a.m and nothing's going to happen but yeah i just wanted to show that you cannot move to dallas and just expect to live in a mansion like maybe compared to california and new york but as a texas native these are just normal prices for me like you can't it's not 500 a month for 500 a month you're gonna live with roaches is what i'm trying to say but i hope you enjoyed today's video oh i'm also going to arizona so i'll be making this video in arizona so stay tuned for that leave a comment if you live in dallas of where i should look because honestly i love dallas i just want to get out of like suburban dallas and be more like in the city city dallas and yeah so subscribe and i'll see you next time

Channel: Ashley Rivera

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Keywords: apartments in dallas, moving to dallas, moving to texas, dallas texas apartments

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Length: 20min 29sec (1229 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 03 2021