Apartment vacancy highest in 4 years.

Rent (and housing) in my area has remained reasonable. The apartments I used to live at before I bought my house are still under $800 a month and that includes free high speed Internet, free water/trash and extremely cheap utilities. And this is right near the college where things cost more.

It also has on site amenities like a dog park, community pool, stuff like that. As for renting houses those usually go for more in the area because as previously alluded to its a college town. We have one of the main state colleges there and it drives prices up. You need to go outside the local area to some of the smaller surrounding towns for better prices.