Yes,
we show apartments on Saturday and Sunday! If you see a unit that
interests you, call the number in its listing below any day of the week!
Laramie Apartments and Houses for Rent
Want to rent a house or apartment in
Laramie, Wyoming?
We're
now taking applications for the Laramie rentals listed on this page.
All are in
good neighborhoods and have lots of upgrades and amenities. All of
these
Laramie apartments and houses are owned, managed and maintained
personally
by us. No absentee landlords, third party managers, agents, or faceless
corporations
here! We try to maintain the nicest and most economical houses and
apartments in Laramie, and we were the first rental managers in town to
provide complete rental information (including rents, availability
dates,
and actual pictures of the units) right here on the Web. We want to be the best possible site to visit for
Laramie apartment rentals. If
you're
interested
in renting one of the Laramie apartments or houses you see here, see How
to
Lease below. If you have pets, be sure to read our pet
policy as well. If you drive by one of these properties on
your own
to view the building or the neighborhood, please do not disturb the
tenants!
Instead, make an appointment as described in the How
to Lease
section. If you are searching for a place for someone other than
yourself, please have that person read this page before he or she calls.
Rent early for fall
Coming
to Laramie in the
fall? If so, don't wait until the very end of summer to rent.
All of
the
best
apartments for rent in Laramie are available in spring and early
summer, and rents increase and
the selection narrows as
fall approaches due to demand from incoming University of Wyoming
students. If you start your lease sooner, you may actually save
money over
the course of the year. Rents
will soon rise by at least $5 per 2 bedroom
apartment due to a new school tax, so it will pay to lock
lower ones in
early. You'll
probably get a better unit, too, and
moving will be more
convenient. because your unit will already be waiting. You'll also have
space available to sleep in when you visit and/or for summer storage.
We offer lower rents during the spring and early summer as an
incentive. Snatch up our spring listings early... they go fast!
List of Available Units (Listed by availability
date, then by
size)
We give tenants with
good
records a chance to
renew until 45 days before their leases expire. So, the best time to
check this site is roughly 45 days before you would like to start
renting. We always list
everything that we know
will be
available within the
next
4-6 months on this page, and we can't predict availability beyond that.
We also remove
units from the list, or tag
them as rented, within an hour
of leasing them. So, what you
see here is
what we have in
inventory. Please
do not call or write to
ask us if we have any units or types of units that are not listed
below. Also please do not call or write to ask if we have, or
anticipate, any vacancies that are not listed, or
whether a unit that is listed here is really available. (It would not
be listed if it were not.)
Also, please
note that we
cannot hold a
unit
open and
unrented for later rental. We must rent from the
availability date listed below (or, if the unit is listed as being
available "Now," as soon as possible). To make this page load faster
and work better on mobile devices, we've linked to the photos
rather than embedding them in the page itself; just click on the links
in the descriptions to see them.
All of our leases must
end in
the summer, so
availability
is limited during the winter months. However, we occasionally have
winter
vacancies due to emergency situations. If you can't find what you need
here, or if we have nothing available at the moment, we recommend that
you check the listings in the local newspapers.
AVAILABLE
FALL 2023 - SPRING 2024
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| Address |
Bedrooms |
Baths |
Furnished? |
Description
and
links to
photographs |
Lease
term |
Rent |
| We're
sorry, but we currently have no vacancies. We
normally list units 30 to 45 days before they are available, with
new leases starting during the period between May 15th and
August 15th. (There are, very occasionally, vacancies at other times
due to emergency move-outs.) When tenants let us know whether or not
they will renew, we will post any units available
for rent on this page. In the meantime, we recommend that you check
with online
advertising sites such as Craigslist to find available housing in Laramie. |
About
Utilities
When you compare rental
units, don't
understimate the
value of a unit that rents with utilities -- especially heat --
included. As NOAA's
normal temperature graph for Laramie shows, the temperature
in
Laramie
drops below freezing each night for more than half of the year. Natural gas prices have increased, and
the local electric utility, Rocky Mountain Power, continues to
increase rates. And as
if the cost of
the energy itself weren't
enough, the State of Wyoming adds 6% sales tax and the City of Laramie
tacks on a franchise fee, which just increased. As a
rule of thumb, if you rent a unit without utilities included, you can
expect the total cost of utilities to average about 40% of your rent
from October to May (most of the year) and 20% during the summer
months. Be sure
to take this into account when comparing units that include utilities
with units that do not.
If you rent one of our units which includes
gas and/or electricity,
we assume the risk of all energy price
fluctuations. We save
you money
on gas and electricity by estimating how much everything will cost and
dividing the costs up
between the units in each building according
to square footage and estimated hot water usage. The amount you pay is
the same every month (no surprises!), and you don't need to undergo
multiple
credit checks, deal with several monthly bills, or pay hundreds of
dollars in
deposits to the gas and electric companies to get service. When we
provide
heat, we do it via a single, energy-efficient heating system that
serves
the entire building. We will even provide you with
energy-saving
bulbs for your own fixtures. (They're just as bright as regular bulbs,
but use less electricity; this helps us to keep the energy component of
rents down.) We make no
profit from included utilities; any savings we're able to realize go to
you, the tenant, in the form of lower rents. The
only things you pay for yourself are your own phone, cable TV (if
you
decide to subscribe), and Internet if it is not included with your
unit. There may be a small
electricity
surcharge if you
have a waterbed (yes, we allow them so long as they have liners).
Location,
location....
The area surrounding the
University of
Wyoming is one
of
the best places to live in Laramie, whether you're associated with the
University or not. All of our units are in quiet residential areas
within
easy walking distance of UW, Historic Downtown Laramie, and shopping.
If you are a student,
staff, or
faculty at UW,
you'll
be especially glad to know that all of our units are closer to the
University
of Wyoming Classroom Building than any of the University's own
dormitories
or apartment complexes. Being able to get to campus quickly without
driving
is a key requirement, because the University has eliminated the
179 convenient parking spaces which once surrounded Prexy's
Pasture
(the main quadrangle that contains most of the school's academic
buildings) and adjacent to the Classroom Building.
It has also eliminated parking to build a new Information Technology
facility near the Fine Arts building, to add space to buildings near
the Wyoming Union, and to build new buildings on the north side of
campus. This has created an acute shortage of parking on and near
campus. A
promised
parking garage is finally being built, but spaces will be limited and
expensive.
Commuters
driving to UW are forced to park in distant lots far
east
or south of the core campus, or to pay for the privilege of parking in
closer ones. "Express"
shuttle buses deliver passengers from the eastern lot (but, ironically,
not
the paid lots) to only two locations on campus: the Union and the
Classroom Building. (You may
wait as long as 15
minutes to catch the one that goes to the Classroom Building -- and
this doesn't include transit time.) There's
another
shuttle
route that goes to more locations from the eastern lot, but it takes a
full 30 minutes to
circle
campus. The southern lot has only one bus route, which runs only to the
Union and not to the Classroom Building. And the buses to the southern
lot stop running at 6 PM.
UW has also raised fees
for
parking permits to
unprecedented levels. (Faculty and staff members
asked the University for a reduced rate for employees with salaries
less
than $30,000 per year, but the University refused.) This means that
many
of these employees will contend with students for on-street parking
near
campus. Another surprise: Previously, parking permits weren't required
during the summer when the campus is not crowded. But under its new
policy,
the University requires them all year long.
Finally, the lack of
much needed
on campus parking
infrastructure has driven students, faculty, and staff to hunt for
parking on the streets surrounding campus, causing problems for the
residents of those neighborhoods. Worse still, the City has decreased
the number of spaces available on local streets by painting "yellow
zones" at intersections of arterial streets, prohibiting parking within
20 feet of those intersections. This, plus requests by many residents
in those areas for permit parking zones in front of their houses, means
that commuters who
try to park on the street near classes will have a difficult time
finding a spot.
Bottom line: If you're
at UW, it
truly pays to live
close
by and bike or walk to avoid the parking crunch... and that's where we
can help.
All of our units are a short walk to campus. In fact, every one is
closer to the UW Classroom Building, the
Pharmacy
School, and many other UW academic buildings than UW's own dorms.
They're also easy walking distance from groceries, the Laramie post
office,
downtown, video rental, and a wide variety of restaurants (burritos, bagels, pizza, coffeehouses, and more).
Rent with
us, and you won't have to worry about University or city parking
policies.
How To
Lease (Please read!)
If you're interested in
renting one of
these units,
please
fill out a rental
application. Click here,
print the page, fill it out, and bring it when you come to see the
unit. You can also FAX the completed, signed application to us; call
for a
FAX
number if you'd like to do this. We need an application for
each
adult who will be living in the unit, even if you are married.
(This
is due to Wyoming state law. Wyoming is not a community property state
and treats married couples as separate individuals for the purpose of
finances,
contracts, etc.) For the same reasons, every adult who is to be living
in the unit must be named on, and sign, the lease. We must deal with the actual
people who will be signing the lease -- not a parent,
friend, or any other intermediary.
If the unit is to be
occupied
by more than one
roommate, please try to agree on a
time when everyone
who will be signing the lease can come for a tour before you call. It
is much easier to process applications for roommates if all of them
come together, with applications, to view the unit.
We believe that no one
should
rent any apartment without physically seeing it. We prefer to meet
prospective
tenants in person, shake their hands, and get to know them before
sitting down to sign a lease. This also helps us
to avoid Internet rental scams, which are becoming increasingly common.
So, please have all
adults who are to live in the unit visit it with us, turn in
applications in person, and be available to meet with us and fill out
the paperwork.
We pride ourselves on
being
attentive,
tenant-friendly
rental managers and taking good care of the properties we manage; after
all, our tenants are our neighbors! We advocated the passage of the new
Wyoming Landlord/Tenant Act when many landlords opposed it. We always
require
a lease, as this protects both you and us. Our leases are written in
plain
English with no "fine print." The security deposit is equal to the
monthly
rent. We ask that you pay the security deposit on or before the date
when
you sign the lease, and the first month's (or partial month's) rent
upon
occupancy. (Unlike some Laramie rental managers, we don't ask for the
last
month's rent until the beginning of the last month.)
Due
to market
conditions in Laramie, all lease
terms
must end between May 15th and August 15th. We regret that we cannot
sign
a lease that ends outside this period. All leases must have a fixed
term; we cannot rent month-to-month.
Each of our units contains
a range and refrigerator.
Our 1-bedroom units do not have laundry equipment or hookups within the
unit, but all have laundry facilities nearby. Those with 2 or more
bedrooms have laundry equipment (not just hookups!) within either the
unit or the building. If a unit is rented "unfurnished," it contains no
furniture other than permanent cabinets and shelves. (For scale, and to
give an idea of how they typically look when furnished, most of our
units are pictured with furniture.) If a unit is rented "furnished," it
contains a full
complement
of furniture but not hotel-like amenities such as
linens,
dishes,
and silverware. If you rent a furnished unit, please expect to use the
furniture
that's provided. Due to limited storage space and the difficulty of
moving
furniture around, we can't remove furniture from a furnished unit.
We favor quiet, serious
tenants
who do not create
disturbances or violate laws or ordinances. Wyoming law makes it a
crime for a rental manager or owner to allow underage drinking or use
of illegal drugs on the premises. Therefore, our lease does prohibit
large, noisy or open parties, gatherings at which minors consume
alcohol or illegal drugs, or illegal activity of any kind. The lease
also prohibits noise which can be heard outside the unit after 10 PM.
We reserve the right to limit the number of occupants per square foot,
per bath, and/or per unit, as per our occupancy
standard, to avoid overcrowding and to conform to
Laramie city ordinances.
For more information, or
to
arrange to see a unit by
appointment,
e-mail us from the mail
page. This is often even faster than calling on the phone!
And
always
check this page for the latest information on rental availability.
Our Pet
Policy
Due to problems with
noise,
damage and
high
maintentance costs, we have been forced to stop accepting uncaged pets
such as cats and dogs -- even "visiting" ones -- in our units. Past
problems have forced us to be very strict about this. Bona
fide, trained service dogs used by blind
and/or
disabled individuals (e.g. Seeing Eye dogs) will be allowed on
the premises unless the unit in question shares a ventilation
system
with other units (in which case allergens would
spread throughout
the building and could sicken a resident who was sensitive to them).
Note that an "emotional support" animal, also called a
"therapy
animal," is not legally a service animal. It will not be accepted
unless it is
medically necessary and peculiarly suited to ameliorate the unique
problems of a mentally disabled individual (as per Prindable).
We usually receive several fraudulent requests to allow such animals
each year, so to accept such an animal, we must be presented
with a Letter of Prescription from a Wyoming-licensed
physician.
(We will not accept certificates from one of the many
Internet-based "certificate mills," none of which are Wyoming-licensed
doctors. Many of these advertise themselves
as a
means of circumventing pet policies.) The doctor's Letter of
Prescription must certify that the animal is an integral part
of
an ongoing program of therapy to assist in alleviating the
symptoms of an individual's disability. As
with
service dogs, "emotional support" animals cannot be permitted in a
building with a ventilation system that is shared between units,
because allergens would spread to other units through the ventilation
system. As of 2017 it is a misdemeanor, under Wyoming law, to knowingly
and
intentionally misrepresent that an animal is a service or assistance
animal.
We do
allow some animals that are permanently confined to a cage or
tank and do not generate airborne allergens, provided
that we know that they'll be there, approve them, and note them on the
lease. (We
wouldn't
want to turn off the power to do repairs, for example, without knowing
that a tank of tropical fish depended upon the electricity to survive.)
In some cases, we may require the floor around the cage or tank to be
covered to prevent damage to floor coverings. However, we must know
about all pets and grant written permission for a tenant to harbor them.
Unfortunately,
if you have multiple uncaged
pets, you will have difficulty finding a rental unit that is in good
condition in Laramie and should probably consider buying instead.
Housing
prices are very reasonable in Laramie, so you will likely come out
ahead
financially
-- especially if you expect to live here for two years or more. We're
not licensed real estate brokers ourselves, but we know the local real
estate
community
and can help you locate a reputable seller's or buyer's broker.
Questions? Comments? Please let us know!
Questions? Comments?
Anything we left out?
Please
e-mail us
from
our
mail
page. (You
don't need to be at your own computer to send us mail.) Again, please
do
not call or write to
ask us if we have, or anticipate, any properties or vacancies that are
not listed above, or
whether a unit that is listed here is really available. If we know that
a unit will be available, it will be listed on this page.
--Brett
Glass,
Laramie, WY
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