Cheapest Cities to Rent in USA (Top 10) - YouTube

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the end of this video What is going on everyone? Have you been

looking at craigslist or apartments.com for cheaper rent in your city and can't

find it? there are about 45 million Americans who

rent their living space and it is estimated that over half

believe they're being charged too much this of course leads to most renters

always on the hunt for cheaper accommodations

i used to do it all the time i had a lot of relationships that ended poorly and i

figured it was better to move than have someone

show up at my door with a crowbar or something like that and i always look

for cheaper rent today we're going to list

10 of the cheapest cities for renters these cities

will be decent cities i'm sure you could find cheaper rent in detroit or east st

louis but that's unhealthy the list will be on the

most popular rental unit which is a one-bedroom apartment and that'll kind

of give you an idea what all the other options are like in

whatever city we're talking about alright let's see what we found number

10 huntsville texas that's right i said texas not alabama

get to that in a second just about an hour north of houston you

have a nice small city called huntsville with a population of about 40 000

residents this place has decent stats across the board cost of living is 22

percent lower than the national average and housing is 11

lower the city started off in 1836 as a trading post the owners of the trading

post named it after their hometown huntsville alabama it's kind of how

portland became portland oregon the guy that started the trading post here

was from portland maine huntsville became the home of

sam houston legendary politician and everything else

he served as the president of the republic of texas governor of the state

of texas governor of tennessee and u.s senator and tennessee

congressman he died here in 1863 at the age of 70. now as far as rent

goes in the first quarter of 2020 a one bedroom averaged

779 dollars a month not bad especially for a place that's

got decent stats number nine shawnee kansas shawnee is a

suburb of kansas city with around 65 000 residents

kansas city has some not so great areas just like all cities

but statistically and from the looks of it shawnee isn't one of those bad

neighborhoods this is a nice city crime is around 27

percent lower than the national average and the schools are solid with a high

school graduation rate that's 11 percent higher than the national

average money magazine has an annual best places to live survey in 2010

shawnee was 17th in the nation that's pretty good

shawnee was ranked so high because of its affordable housing air quality index

and average commute time it's really a great place to live there's also a man

in shawnee named howard he wrote me a lengthy

handwritten letter protesting my video about kansas i did a couple years ago

this was a five page letter where he spent two

paragraphs telling me how wrong i was saying kansas is boring i kid you not

the next four and a half pages were insults and ideas of how i should f

myself normally when someone says that to you

that's the end of the conversation howard didn't follow that rule

howard went into great detail i mean really detailed

on what i should do to myself my response was

howard you just proved my point you spent god knows how long writing this

letter and visualizing me with a dozen or so fruits and vegetables

kansas is boring howard i sent that letter back to him actually it was a

postcard from portland oregon said wish you were

here it was fabulous anyway shawnee is a nice place to stay live

rent whatever you're gonna do the rent's only 760 a month here for one bedroom

apartment number eight midland michigan midland is

about an hour away from flint michigan and about two hours away from detroit so

you have like a buffer of all the michigan suckage right there

that is a ton of suckage also if they gave out awards for cities

being in bad shape detroit and flint would both be in the top five and

they're so close to each other that's just

how does that happen i know how it happens but yeah it's weird anyway

it's hard to believe that a city so close to either those two gems could be

nice but midland pulls it off midland's crime

rate is 62 percent lower than the national average

and their cost of living is 10 lower at 62 percent

lower crime rate that's amazing because detroit is like 340 percent higher

than the national average two hours away incredible if you don't mind harsh

winters and falls can get a little chilly too

this is a great place to live one thing i will add to that their summers are

amazing a michigan summer outside of detroit and flint is a great

summer the average rent in midland is 710 a month

for a one-bedroom apartment number seven derby kansas derby kansas is a small

city south of wichita it's got about 25 000 residents in 1903

the city was incorporated but at the time they used the name

el paso for some reason city kind of remained a farming community for a long

time after world war ii it started to pick up

some steam sometime around then they changed the name to derby kansas

this is a great place to live the crime is 12 percent lower than the

national average and schools have a graduation rate that's about 12 percent

higher than the national average cost living is about seven percent lower

than the national average i like the wichita area and it's like a

suburb of it sort of it's a nice place the average rent here is 687 dollars a

month for a one bedroom apartment number six wisconsin rapids wisconsin

in the center of wisconsin on the wisconsin river you have 20 000 people

that make up the city of wisconsin rapids now this wasn't always the name

in 1900 there were two cities there and they decided to merge they were split by

the wisconsin river on the west side it was incorporated as

centralia and on the east side it was grand rapids the two cities merged in

1900 and the entire community taking the name of grand rapids

well the name was changed in 1920 because they were afraid

that mail and other goods were being misdirected to the more popular

grand rapids michigan and they didn't want anyone confused you know they end

up in grand rapids wisconsin they thought they were going to michigan

you know just in case they don't own a map or a globe

or a compass or anything like that so they changed the name to wisconsin

rapids and they lived happily ever after but

not so much this is a great community the crime isn't the best

it's actually 27 higher than the national average like i said before

detroit's like 340 higher so this is really not that bad

housing is 54 percent lower and the cost of living is six percent lower than the

national average the schools ain't too shabby either

their graduation rate is about 12 percent higher than the national average

and here's where they shine the average rent for a one-bedroom

apartment in wisconsin rapids is only 630 dollars

not bad number five sierra vista arizona sierra vista is a small city in the

middle of the arizona desert it sits right outside the main gate of

the us army's fort huachuca this is an army post you end up going to

if you join military intelligence and please

stop typing nobody wants to hear the old worn out joke about

military intelligence being an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp

i think gallagher or george carlin said that in the 70s let it go

sierra vista is a nice place to live if you don't mind the heat and they get a

lot of it crime is 10 higher here but everything

else is solid including the rent which is only 602 dollars

a month on average for a one-bedroom apartment not bad

at all now if you do move here make sure you don't take fry boulevard

too far west because you're gonna run into guys in a little hut and they're

gonna make you turn around and they're gonna look at you sternly

but really they're not that bad they just tell you turn around it's not a big

deal if it's still the same it's paying the

butt to turn around there anyway moving on

number four niles ohio sandwiched between warren and youngstown ohio you

have the city of niles ohio and it's 19 000 residents one of those residents was

president william mckinley yeah this is his birthplace

niles is a great town and sadly it's losing people good news about that is

though prices are dropping rent housing

everything cost of living it's all going down

i've never been to niles but looking at it through street view

i found something amazing sidewalks are kind of tore up like the city's not

putting in new sidewalks or anything like that so that looks bad but if you

look at the homes the homes look like they're well

maintained like the people still care about this city

it's it's kind of an interesting thing i've been doing a little extra reading

about this one all the stats are really good here

except for jobs that's where they're kind of suffering

they don't have the best you know employment numbers they're actually 14

higher than the national average but they're still maintaining low crime

you know i mean six percent higher than the national average cost of living

is 16 percent lower than the national average so

nothing terrible the schools are great they have a 14

higher than average graduation rate nozzle ohio is a nice place to live

and it's just cheap it's really neat and here's where nile stands out

rent is only 579 dollars a month for a one-bedroom apartment

that's great number three conway arkansas north of

little rock near bend in the arkansas river you have the city of conway

arkansas if you watch this channel enough you

know i spent a lot of time roasting arkansas you might be wondering why

the answer is because the place sucks not all of it though like i've said

before the northwest corner with rogers

springdale and fayetteville that's the best part of the

state they've got jobs there they've got good people education

things are going good in the northwest corner most of the rest of the state

kind of blows conway is decent their crime is up there

but most everything else including schools their graduation rates 10

higher their cost of living is 20 lower than the national

average their housing is 15 percent lower

it's not a bad place other than the crime the thing that gets them on this

list though is rent is 570 a month for one bedroom

not bad conway number two greenville texas about an hour northwest of dallas

you have greenville texas and it's 30 000

residents this city has been growing since the

1890 census they've never had a reduction in population

so their rent isn't low because people are flooding out of this place which is

you know normally what happens the only knock against greenville is the

unemployment it's 30 higher than the national average that's

2019 numbers it was 6.2 percent which is pretty high

probably much worse right now with all the chaos of 2020 but that's the only

knock if you're moving there and you got a job you work remotely

this place is ideal especially when you figure in the cost of living is 25

lower than the national average and rent for one bedroom apartment

is 530 dollars and number one fort smith arkansas just

south of that nice part of arkansas i've been talking about

is fort smith this town has some history and some really cheap rent

most of the stats well they're not the best actually they suck they're really

bad not crazy bad but they suck this is a

good place to move if you're looking to save a lot of money

and you're bringing a job with you and no kids

don't bring kids here their schools are horrible but the cost of living here is

25 percent lower than the national average

and rent for a one-bedroom apartment is 460 dollars a month if you're living

there and you think that's expensive never go

to los angeles san francisco new york miami because you'll see rent there and

you will cry yourself to sleep at night fort smith is the cheapest place in the

country to pay rent that isn't you know downtown detroit

where you're living in a van or something like that

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