If you havent started looking for work, you really need to be. Right now you don't even have that much accomplished yet. You need to know what your means *ARE* before you choose to live above them. Which means you wouldn't be able to afford food, groceries, transportation, HOA fees, utilities, or even a bottle of beer at the end of the week. You could come down here and be all excited and move in with your $1300/month rent, only to find that the BEST you can get in salary from a job matching your skills and experience is $1300/month. You have no income when you're down in Florida, no prospects, not even a job interview, or any idea of what kind of job market is available for your skillset, and at what salary. They know nothing else about you other than your credit score if they check. The ONLY thing you'd be able to guarantee is one year's worth of revenue to the landlord. What you are trying to do isnt impossible but you may have to start off with your stuff in storage down here an live in less than ideal conditions. It was far from comfortable, 5 people in a 3/2 Townhouse and some roommates were sketchy at best. Fortunately for me it all worked out, finished school, closed out the lease and got my deposits back with no problems. Then I had pay double deposit first and last month rent on a month to month. I was able to rent a room in a place by University in Miami without a job for $500 a month only after I showed him 10K cash in savings, access to and student loans from the University. bank accounts and proof of employment are all they care about. Education, experience, and contacts are important to employers, not landlords. Landlords are very skeptical of people moving down with a job, because they see it all the time and nearly all have been burned. Otherwise you are not going a lot of options if any. If you have a job and work remotely most places will be more willing to work with you. This is why we want to pay the lease upfront. We are concerned that by the time we need an apartment, we won't have jobs lined up in Orlando quite yet. We have never missed rent or had any issues at the apartment and we both have excellent credit scores. We are both college educated, have careers in finance, and have lived in the same apartment complex in Indiana for 5 years. Has anyone ever done this in Orlando? Are we too naïve and hoping for the best might land us in a sticky situation? There has been one so far that said they would look into it. This is proving to be rather difficult as the few complexes we have contacted said we still have to meet the income requirements to move in. We have more than enough saved to cover a 12 month lease at $1,300/month. We were hoping we could find an apartment complex that would allow us to pay the lease upfront so we won't have to worry about income requirements. We have been saving a TON of money to do this. We are planning to move in August, the month our lease ends in Indiana. This will move us each closer to our families and fulfill a desire to live in Florida. My roommate (30M) and I (25M) have been planning a move to Orlando from Indiana for about 3 years now.
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