Rooms for Rent in Troy, MI

Frequently asked questions

• How many rooms for rent are listed in Troy, MI right now?

  Troy's two housing markets behave nothing alike, and that works in a room hunter's favor. Across the city's 34,488 housing units the homeowner vacancy rate is just 0.7 percent while the rental vacancy rate sits at 8.4 percent - so buying here is a scramble and renting is not. Roomster has 24 rooms for rent posted around the city, from the Big Beaver Road office corridor and Somerset south through the John R and Rochester Road blocks and north toward Long Lake. Troy runs ZIP codes 48083, 48084, 48085 and 48098, and listings from Clawson and Madison Heights are routinely filed as Troy, so check the address.

• How much does a room for rent in Troy cost per month?

  Most private rooms here ask $700 to $1,100 a month, with the wider market reaching about $1,400 for a large furnished room and some hosts quoting weekly at roughly $250, which works out near $1,083 a month. You can find rooms under $800 a month in the 48083 blocks south of Maple Road toward the Clawson line and in the older courts along John R, while a room near Big Beaver and Somerset sits at the top. Measured against a Troy one-bedroom at $1,462, a room is roughly half the outlay, and the city average across all sizes is $1,625.

• Can I find a room for rent near the Big Beaver corridor or Somerset Collection?

  That corridor is why the room market exists here. Troy is a center of automotive and financial business rather than a bedroom suburb, with Aptiv, Kelly Services, J.D. Power, Magna Powertrain, Meritor and Tyler Technologies all headquartered or operating in the city, and the Top of Troy tower and Somerset Collection anchoring the Big Beaver commercial spine. Rooms in 48084, the ZIP wrapped around Big Beaver, put you minutes from the office parks and the mall's retail and restaurant shifts, which is exactly why they are the first to go.

• Can I find a furnished or month-to-month room for rent in Troy?

  More easily than in most suburbs its size, because of how the local engineering economy hires. The automotive supplier and consulting firms clustered here run a steady flow of contract and rotational assignments measured in months rather than years, so a slice of the local room supply is furnished and offered short, and some hosts price by the week at around $250 rather than by the year. Filter on lease length and move-in date before neighborhood, and say in your message how long your assignment runs - hosts along the Big Beaver corridor have done this before and recognize the pattern.

• Which Troy neighborhoods have the cheapest rooms for rent?

  Head south and east. The 48083 blocks below Maple Road, running toward the Clawson and Madison Heights borders, hold the oldest and least expensive stock, and the John R corridor is the other value pocket. Prices climb as you move north through 48084 near Big Beaver and into 48098 around Long Lake and Wattles. If Troy still overshoots your budget, the towns immediately around it drop sharply: Clawson averages about $1,228, Pontiac $1,196 and Warren $1,129 against Troy's $1,625.

• What should I know about the deposit before renting a room in Troy?

  Michigan gives renters more procedure at move-in than most states, and it is worth using. A deposit cannot exceed one and a half months' rent under MCL 554.602. Within 14 days of you taking possession, the landlord has to tell you in writing the name and address of the financial institution holding your money. And under MCL 554.608 they must hand you two blank copies of a commencement inventory checklist, one of which you complete and return within 7 days - the form itself has to carry a boldface notice telling you that you may request a copy of the last termination inventory checklist, which shows what the previous tenants were charged for. Ask for it. Then see the room in person or on video, and never send a deposit to someone you have not met.