A sagging housing market and a large generation of potential renters entering the workforce is pushing up demand for apartments and rents in Inland Southern California and nationwide, according to a new report.
In the first quarter of this year average rent in Riverside County rose to $1,074, an increase of 3.2 percent from the first quarter of 2010.
In San Bernardino County the average rent reached $1,090, which was 2.5 percent higher than a year earlier, said the report published by RealFacts Meyers.
The average apartment occupancy rate in the first quarter was 94.4 percent in both counties, which reflected a year-over-year increase of 2.5 percent in Riverside County and .9 percent in San Bernardino County.
The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan statistical area ranks 12th highest in average monthly rent among 26 such areas studied in California by RealFacts Meyers.
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The health and special education records of students who graduated in 2005 will be destroyed after July 29, in accordance with state law. No information from the records will be maintained.
The records, which may be necessary for social security benefits or other purposes, can be obtained by contacting the school district’s pupil personnel services department at 860-253-6536.
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Babies and toddlers are welcome to attend evening rhyme time at the public library Tuesday night.
Rhyme time, which includes a half hour of nursery rhymes, singing and finger plays for newborn to 2-year-old tots and their caregivers, is designed to promote early language skills.
The session begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 860-763-7510 or visit http://www.enfieldpubliclibrary.org.
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When Stephanie’s Urquiaga’s rent shot up $30, she sat down at her kitchen table, crunched the numbers, and figured out what she would have to do to stave off eviction.
She would make one less trip to the grocery store each month, leaving an empty refrigerator and near-empty stomach in the final days before her monthly disability check arrived.
Urquiaga, 54, now spends more than half of her income on rent at Biscayne Court, a taxpayer -funded affordable housing facility in Liberty City built in 2009 to help poor seniors avoid the very eat-vs.-pay-my-rent predicament she now finds herself in.
While the federal government stipulates that affordable housing apartments are supposed to cost residents no more than 30 percent of their income, state and federal rules allow annual rent increases, such as those imposed by Miami developer Biscayne Housing Group this year.
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If replacing gutters, there are two options: sectional and seamless. Sectional gutters come in pieces, joined by connectors.
Sectional gutters are prone to leaks around the seams of the connectors, which is a major drawback. Seamless gutters are continuous and only have seams at end caps, downspouts and corners. This greatly reduces the likelihood of leaks.
Vinyl sgutters can cost as little as $3 per foot, while aluminum could cost as much as $9 a foot.
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