Thinking about buying a home but signing another lease instead? Welcome to Rental Diaries, where real people break down what it’s actually like to rent—what they pay, what they sacrifice, and what they’re still dreaming about.
Today, Naydalis Linares, a mother of three, explains how she found a dream rental in Georgia, where she felt she could start over following her divorce, without sacrificing the most important parts of her past life.
After spending more than a dozen years raising her children in a single-family home, Linares was determined to keep her kids close to their schools, sports, friends and routines after going through a divorce—all on a single income. …