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Finding a Premium Rental Rentals can vary as much as types of personalities can. What are you looking for? What are you needs? What are your wants? These are all variables that you want to add to the requirements that you have to meet as you begin looking for your rental property, whether or not it's for a vacation rental, or for a yearly lease.  Many times folks will look for their rental property base soley or mostly based on price. This is a major mistake. Yes, you have to be able to afford your rental property, that's a no-brainer. But, let's take a look at what the rental is doing for you. Let's take a look at what your needs and wants are, and what you would like to get from the rental property before you look at price. Lets take a look at at all of our choices and alternatives, and then we can we them out based on price later, it's not the first step in the process. Zig Ziglar said that you cannot hit a target that you cannot see. This is so true in finding a premium rental property. By premium I mean that the rental property serves your highest and best use, your needs and wants, within your price/value range to the highest and best that any other rental property on the market. This is much like choosing a spouse, I hope, that you first find out what you want and need out of a relationship, then start looking for someone that fits that description. A rental unit, because you cannot move it, should be strategically geographically positioned to suite your geographical needs. This means that the rental property should be located within a compfortable proximity to local area attractions and amenities that you are going to be utilizing during your stay. Staying too far or too close to area attractions could cause discomfort and not be a premium rental for your needs. So the first thing that you want to do in order to find a premium rental property that suites your highest and best needs, is to first line up your needs and wants, both externally and internally. Outside of the rental property, do you want to be next to a restaurant, that's an externality. Internally, do you want or need gold plated faucets? That's an internally. Listing these things starts the process. You can add to this by checking next to items you have to have. This allows you to bend on other items, and to not change your mind or forget down the road when faced with a mind changing decision.  The next thing that you want to do after knowing what you want, is decide what type of property you want to rent. Most people go out and see whats available in their price range and take the first or second thing they see, no questions, done deal. The truth is that you need to know if you're going to want a townhouse, single level, double level, apartment, highrise, etc. Write down your choices in order of preferance. Then figure out your finances, document what your usable income is for spending on your rental. When looking at the cost of a rental, be sure to calculate all of the expences involved, not just the list price. There are several other expences in living in a rental that aren't listed in the listing. What about utilities? What about Food? What about transportation? What about the deposit? And the list can go on and on, so write everything you can think of before you get tied up into it that you can think of. At this point you know what type of rental property you want, you know approximately how much you can afford to spend, and you know what needs and wants that you need to meet with the rental property. A premium rental property is not a rental unit that is worth a million dollars, it's one that meets all of your needs and wants, is affordable and is the closest thing to the type style and layout that you desire.  Take this information and go out to find your premium rental property that meets your highest and best use.  Feel free to pass this information on to someone who needs it. And visit: www.iByOwner.com to find rentals and homes for sale by owner.