Welcome to Real Estate & Rentals — renting, buying and everything in between

Whether you're after a boarding house near campus, a condo near IT Park, or a lot to build on someday, this is the place to ask.

Good topics here:

• Neighbourhoods: flooding, traffic, water pressure, and what living there is really like
• Renting: fair prices, deposits and advance, and what a lease should include
• Buying: developers, pre-selling, Pag-IBIG housing loans and transferring titles
• Landlords and tenants: rights, disputes, and how they got resolved

A word of caution: never send a reservation fee or deposit before you've seen the unit and confirmed who owns it. If a deal looks too good, ask here first.

To start us off: what do you wish you'd checked before signing your last lease?