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Since you know the area, you have a leg up on knowing good areas from bad so just go on apartments.com for Hagerstown, MD and search for an apartment you might like. You can call them and find out what the availability is and possibly initiate the rental through faxes. While you were visiting you should have taken the time to search out apartments. We have moved to different States many times and always visit first to check out the area and find an apartment so that when our moving truck arrived we had a place to move into and a storage location for the rest of our furnishings until we found or built a home. If you are moving with a job relo this isn't a problem. If you aren't most apartments will not rent to anyone without proof of a job. If the latter is true, you need to go back to Hagerstown to secure a job and then an apartment so you may need to spend some time without your family in the area to make sure this happens. We have only moved to different States because my husband had taken a new position and his new company paid for the move so we were set with a job to get an apartment. You certainly don't want to move your family to MD without a job and therefore no way to get an apartment. We lived in Ellicott City MD and my sales territory included Hagerstown. I am surprised that you are exchanging Boston for Hagerstown merely because of lower rent and not job opportunities. Hagerstown is a bit limited in that area and too far away from larger cities to offer much in the way of job opportunities. I would think hard on that.

by dawnb

5 months ago

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You are probably going to have to go out there at least once before moving. During your trip out there you can look at apartments and get submit applications for apartments. Landlords will definitely trust you enough to hold an apartment for a few weeks if you sign a lease and give them a security deposit & first months rent but you wouldn't want to do that without meeting the landlord and seeing the apartment first.

by goldshire1- 5 months ago

Not NO, *ell NO. Don't do Craigslist for that. You may not feel any threat or pressure, personally, where you live, but Hagarstown is very near DC and if you don't know it, don't trust it. Go to www.50states.com and go to MD, then click on Newspapers and see what pops up for the Hagarstown area, then look for the rentals. These may be scattered around but you should be able to find some comprehensive listings of apartments. For a detailed listing of currently avalilable listing you may need to call a local paper to get a subscription for 30 days, if they do that, then read every issue to locate ads that appeal to you. You can also try OOGLE or BACKPAGE or clicktocity or kijiji, just be careful and open a free email account, one you don't plan on using forever at gmail or yahoo or somewhere, just for your apt search. You'll like the Hagarstown area, lots of mountains in the area yet it's close to folks and if you like rough terrain, you can take 49 over and up to W.VA And, don't answer any emails wanting info about you or what you drive, or anything else. As far as moving is concerned, it's only @ 500 miles, so if you want to check out the area first just get on 95 and drive south. If you plan it right you can miss most of the NYC traffic if you pass thru it before 6 am. Then you've got the turn pike and Philly, and well, you know. Good luck with this, I've moved all over the U.S and it isn't hard, except the packing and unpacking, if you just plan what you need now, so you have it when you get there. Good Luck John

by John- 5 months ago