[LittleOldLady]

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I am moving in August as well, so I will wish you luck. When I was apartment hunting (3 bedroom's) the nicest area seemed to be the Henderson area.

For a 3 bedroom, we saw some nice ones for about 850 month which I thought was great. However, if you are really poor their low income apartments looked great as well.

Are you playing poker professionally, getting a dealer job, don't know..what? I am going out there and then looking for a job so let me know how it is out there.

And yes, you will need a car with A/C most likely.

Bang Bang

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I question what you think "nice" is. My 1 bedroom in SW area near the lakes is $930 mo.

Henderson as a rule is a nice area however.

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Three bedrooms in Henderson for $850 strikes me as below the market. I just moved to Silverado Ranch (well to the south and just west of Henderson). This is a nice area, still in the process of being developed--hence quieter and with less traffic than some other neighborhoods--and somewhat cheaper than Henderson. I am renting a 2-bedroom condo unit with a few more amenities than most apartments for $895/month. My son and daughter-in-law have something very similar in Green Valley (Henderson) for a little bit more. My daughter-in-law's sister lives a block from me, and she is paying $850 for her two-bedroom. I looked at a number of places in and around this same area, and the going rate for a two-bedroom unit is about $850-950. I saw a freestanding tiny two-bedroom house for about $950.

And a car is an absolute necessity pretty much wherever you live, unless you are in a neighborhood that has some public transit--like my old neighborhood near the airport and UNLV. Even there I would recommend a car.