Rental Homes Stapleton: It's Better To Rent Than To Buy

A lot of first-time home buyers are nervous in buying real estate right now or it may be totally out of the picture due to the inaccessible credit market in the United States today. A good option for a home buyer is renting a place and wait for the real estate crash and credit crunch to subside. Renting actually has a lot of advantages in its favor compared to the financial obligations in home buying.

If you are looking for a place to rent or rental homes, a great place to look for one is the new Denver neighborhood of Stapleton, which is touted to be the largest urban redevelopment community in the United States today. It is built on 4,700 acres on the former site of the Stapleton International Airport in Denver. Stapleton is a thriving and world-renowned mixed-use community that started to be built in 2001. Its unique New-Urban lifestyle blends the convenience, diversity, and sophistication of city life with the open space, safety, and community of suburban living.

Stapleton is a great place to live and work and the community is now home to more than 7,000 current residents. It offers a variety of home style and price ranges; a comprehensive selection of shops, restaurants, and other amenities; gas stations; grocery stores; schools; miles of parks and open space; bike paths and walking trails; office space and more. Much of the Stapleton community is still under construction and is estimated to be approximately 25% complete. Construction of the are is expected to be completed in 2020.

Stapleton’s architecture is inspired by the great, old Denver neighborhoods like Washington Park and Cherry Creek. The vision of planners for the area is prime commercial real estate and residential real estate coexisting in perfect harmony.

The core visions conservation, preservation and sustainability were at the center from the beginning. Stapleton was planned as a "green" real estate and commercial community with 30 percent of the land at Stapleton reserved for parks, recreational facilities and open spaces. The construction of homes also was in line with green building and every new home is Energy Star-certified. That means lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower utility bills. In addition, driving is not a required activity in Stapleton as everything is pretty close, including offices, shops and stores. In fact, walking and cycling are the preferred modes of transportation around Stapleton.

The concept of "green" building, extended to recycling old building materials in the area formerly known as Stapleton International Airport. The runway concrete was used to build bridges and bike paths and leftover framing materials are turned into mulch. In the future, recycled water will be used to irrigate major park areas.

The Stapleton community is relatively accessible as it only takes 10 minutes to drive to downtown Denver and 20 minutes to Denver International Airport. When completed the community is slated to have 12,000 diversely priced homes and apartments, three million square feet of retail space, two square miles of parks  and ten million square feet of planned office space.