r/SouthFlorida

My wife and I are looking for a long-term rental near the beach and figured we'd try Reddit before going the traditional route.

We're looking to move early December 2026 and are hoping to find a 1–2 bedroom apartment, condo, or house from Jupiter down to West Palm Beach.

What we're looking for:

• 🏝️ Walking distance to the beach — this is important to us
• 📍 Jupiter → Juno Beach → Palm Beach Gardens → Singer Island → Palm Beach → West Palm Beach
• 🛏️ 1–2 bedrooms
• 💰 Around $3,500/month — but we're open to discussing rent for the right property
• 📅 12-month lease or longer
• 🏡 Open to an apartment, condo, or house
• ✨ Preferably a newer build or a well-maintained property with updated/modern renovations
• 🚫 We're specifically looking for the beach area — not inland/lake properties

A little about us: We're a professional couple with very stable careers and approximately $200K+ in combined annual income, and we're happy to provide proof of income, references, etc.

I run my own healthcare recruiting business, and my wife works in the corporate world. We're looking for somewhere we can settle in long-term and really make a home, rather than just a short-term rental.

We also have one dog — a 60-ish lb mixed breed who is part of the family. 🐶

If you're a private owner with a property that may be coming available — even if it's not currently listed publicly — we'd absolutely love to hear from you.

We're flexible on the exact property as long as it's within our general budget, walking distance to the beach, and somewhere we'd be happy to call home for the long term. If you have something that's a little above our target budget but you think could be a great fit, we're open to having a conversation.

Please feel free to DM me if you have something available or coming available in December.

Thanks! Really appreciate any leads! 🌴

I (25F) just moved to Coral Springs (right outside Ft Laud) about two months ago due to my husband’s (30M) job. Originally from Indiana so very big move for us. I have been job hunting with no luck or potential. We don’t know anyone or have any local friends, just my in-laws who live in Deerfield Beach. Any tips on how get involved as someone new to the area and bad at socializing? Whether it’s in Coral Springs or surrounding areas like Pompano, Ft Laud, Boca etc., happy for any recommendations. I am feeling very out of touch and just want to try and make this place feel more at home.

Kinda fun to watch the weather station https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?
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In usual fashion, a bad idea starts by Meatball Ron, and once it gets through the ridiculous Florida legislature you get an even bigger mess. Originally an exemption would be for police, fire and school but now it’s only for school tax. So we can look forward to less funding for police and fire depts, which means less officers on the streets, longer response times ultimately more crime. It’s hilarious to me how hypocritical Republicans are. Are they now the “defund the police party?“. Stupid.

Hello everyone,

I hope this post finds everyone doing well at the moment. The reason in which I am posting this is because I am looking for advice for a question that's been on my mind for years. Should I move to Florida? First let me explain why.....

I started to vacation in Florida every year as a teenager back when I was in Highschool. I am 22 now(turning 23 next year). Every time I went back, I always fell more and more in love with it. I've explored Miami/Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton/West Palm Beach/Pompano Beach/Tampa/Naples/Sarasota/and Orlando but I would say that I am more acquainted with South Florida only due to the fact that I've been there more times as opposed to Central and North Florida. And yes I am aware of the fact that going on vacation is much more different as opposed to living there.

I am originally from NYC(born and raised) for pretty much the majority of my life and as much as I love my city, there are some personal issues that make me wanna leave from time to time. I am not going to go into detail here but if anyone is interested I can explain down below. I am just scared because I don't know how things will play out so I'd figured that I would get some advice from people who are SoFlo natives.

Every piece of advice and personal experiences would help. Thank you :)

Hey everyone, im a south florida native and have lived in palm beach county and dade and have friends and family in broward. Im looking to move around to Arlington/DC/Baltimore area for career development but im concerned about dating up there vs down here.

It seems like miami isn’t ideal for the superficiality of the city and its culture(sue me), as well as the fact my Spanish isnt the best, and pbc and broward i grew up here and just feel super stagnant staying.

DC area seems great but my concern is if it has that same superficiality as miami. Like am i seen as a bum making around 50k in that area at 27 or is it fine? Looking to get incite from maybe anyone who’s lived in both.

All eyes are on the Democratic primary in Florida's 20th Congressional District, the outcome of which could bring Florida's Black representation in Congress down to a historic low.

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Hey yall, moved out here from Colorado recently and have been getting into poker. The casinos are great here but the vibes and feelings make me a little uncomfortable. If anyone knows of cool bars/spots that host weekly poker sessions, that would be great. +1 if anyone wants dm me and potentially invite me to a house game or two, im trying to also find friends and meet like minded people.

My family relocated from Seattle to the Aventura/North Miami Beach area a few years back. I ended up in NYC, but my Jeep is already parked down there, and my girlfriend and I want to post up somewhere in South Florida for three or four months this winter.

Delray keeps coming up in my research. It's close enough to visit family, the crowd skews younger, and it actually has a walkable downtown. But I've never spent real time there, so I'd rather hear from people who have than trust a bunch of listicles.

What we're after is beach and outdoors over clubs. We'd take a sunrise beach over a bottle service night, and ideally we'd be somewhere we run into people in their 20s and 30s who aren't just on vacation. A 30-45 minute drive to Aventura is fine, and we're okay being car-dependent, though being able to walk to coffee and food would be a nice bonus.

So is Delray the obvious answer here, or the tourist-trap answer? If you'd send us to Lake Worth, Boca, Jupiter, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, or somewhere I haven't even thought of, I want to hear why.

Flying back to Texas tomorrow and want to stock up. Looking for really good croquetas de jamón, pastelitos de guayaba/guayaba y queso, pan de bono, and tequeños de queso and guayaba y queso.

For the price, is it a better deal to order full-size or mini croquetas, pastelitos and tequeños?

Preferably somewhere I can order today and pick up tomorrow morning. Where would you go?

My honest review of the Spruce Apartments.

Read this before moving in. This apartment building is from a black mirror episode.

2B2B unit cost: $3000/month, fees $300, utilities $100-200

Total cost: $3400

The WiFi is a complete nightmare, they force you to use the building mesh network and it’s really bad. If you need reliable internet don’t move in here. They also collect your data to build an advertising profile and do not give you an option to opt out. No lan line if you’re a gamer. You can’t connect a ring camera or any of your own IOT devices. You can’t change your password or rename your network.

-They monitor your network usage and will kick your devices off the network if you have too many connected.

-The WiFi router has built in occupancy tracking features. Which means they know when you are home and can even tell what room you are in. They can track how many guests you have over.

-The bar across the street blasts reggae music until 6 AM and it will shake your apartment windows if you are anywhere near the coastal side of the building. There are no noise ordinances on the weekend so you just have to live with it.

-The parking garage is extremely dangerous to navigate. Unless you drive a motorcycle or sports car you’re going to have a hard time getting your car into the building. You need to do a three point turn to get in or out of a parking spot.

-No elevator code to let visitors or delivery drives up to your apartment.

-Your IOT stove will wirelessly alert maintenance if you forget to turn off the burner and send maintenance to enter your apartment to turn off the stove. It sounds crazy, but I had maintenance enter my apartment while I was home, they knocked and didn’t give me a chance to answer the door before walking into my unit. Once in my unit I asked them what they were doing and they lied to me and said that my girlfriend called them and asked them to turn off the stove. Which was weird for multiple reasons, one, how did they know my girlfriend wasn’t home, two, I turned on the stove so I knew he was lying, three, he knocked and walked into my apartment like he knew no one was home. After calling him out on the first lie, he lied again and said my apartment was full of smoke and the neighbor smelt it from the hall. There was no smoke in my apartment and no smell. I went along with it this time because I wanted this guy out of my apartment. After looking at my stove I realized it was connected to the wifi network.

-The doors have IOT locks that only lock from the outside. We weren’t locking our door for months because we thought that the dead bolt lock inside our apartment would lock the door when you switch it. To lock the door you need to open up the door to the outside hall, quickly scan your fob, close the door, flip the dead bolt, then listen for a really quite beep to confirm that the door is actually locked. I also suspect that it’s an IOT lock, but I’m not sure.

-They have 3/4s of the building sharing the moving elevator so if the elevator is busy, you have to walk the entire length of the building to get to the next elevator.

-They fumigate the elevators and the gym with automatic freebreeze machines so they always smells like someone is spraying freebreeze in your face.

-This building is 1/3 workforce housing so you are paying luxury apartment prices, but majority of the current residents are getting discounted rent. It’s just not my crowd. I think it is a good and necessary program, but it bothers me that I’m paying luxury apartment prices while my neighbors only have to pay a fraction of that.

-Their website and application process is a complete nightmare.

-The building is maybe 1/3 full right now and parking is going to get so much worse once everyone moves in.

-It costs 10k to break the lease so we are probably going to ride it out, but I wouldn’t recommend anyone move in here unless you are getting the work force housing deal.

-you can tell that every review about the building is fake because they name drop the property agent with glowing compliments. It’s common to offer people incentives to post reviews.

-the appliances and furnishings in the unit are extremely cheap. The washer and dryers sound like a jet engine. The dishwasher works but prewashing your dishes is a must. All the finishings like the sink head, the hand towel holders are made out of plastic, and walls are finished with a thin coat of primer that scratches if you touch it on accident.

-The bathrooms have a fan wired into the light switch and it’s obnoxiously loud. So every time you turn the light on in your bathroom your forces to listen to a noisy fan.

-The bathrooms have no good storage or cabinet space. The shower is really awkward, they installed a massive shower that has no shelves or places to put your soaps.

It just makes me so mad that you don’t have a right to privacy in your own home. Having your apartment building monitor your network, monitor your stove, monitor your door lock, and collect biometric data from their Ai security cameras crosses a line that I think needs to be brought to light. The cheap new construction I can deal with, but people should be aware and upset at the major privacy violations going on here.

I live in West Palm Area and there are no straight bike paths, and no big open roads with shoulders or low speed limits for cars. Truly not sure where I can bike for 30+ miles safely. Does anyone have any ideas?