Rooms for Rent in Davie, FL

Frequently Asked Questions About Rooms for Rent in Davie, FL

• How many rooms for rent are available in Davie, FL right now?

  Davie is one of the few Broward towns whose rental map is drawn around campuses rather than a downtown. The South Florida Education Center packs Nova Southeastern, Broward College South, FAU Davie, McFatter Technical and UF's research station into a few square miles, and the rooms follow that cluster. Roomster is showing 144 rooms for rent in and around town, most of them in the condo and townhouse belt along University Drive, Nova Drive and Pine Island Road, with a thinner second group out past Flamingo Road where lots get large enough to keep horses. Davie proper runs across ZIPs 33314, 33324, 33325, 33328, 33330 and 33331, so checking the ZIP on a listing is the quickest way to tell a true Davie room from a Plantation or Cooper City one.

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

  Most Davie rooms land between $900 and $1,500 a month, and where you fall inside that band comes down to campus distance and whether the room has its own bathroom. A furnished room with a private bath in the townhouse communities near Nova Drive asks $1,450 to $1,550; a plain bedroom in a family house further west is often $900 to $1,100. You can still find rooms under $1,200 a month in Fern Crest Village, Park City and the older sections of Pine Island Ridge, and some hosts near the campuses price by the week, around $250 to $300, which suits a student on a term-length rotation. One thing to use: Davie rents have fallen roughly 10 percent over the past year, so an asking price that has sat unanswered for a few weeks is usually negotiable.

• Which Davie neighborhoods have the cheapest rooms to share?

  The cheap end of the Davie room market is the older attached housing off Pine Island Road and Nova Drive - Arrowhead, Fern Crest Village, Park City, Westridge and the earlier phases of Pine Island Ridge. Those are two and three bedroom condos and townhouses where an owner or a lead tenant rents the spare bedroom, and they sit close enough to the campuses to walk or catch a shuttle. Old Davie around Griffin Road and Davie Road, the western-theme town center, has older single-family stock that also prices below the town average. Forest Ridge, Rolling Hills near Grande Oaks and Hawks Landing are single-family and gated, so rooms there are rarer and cost more when they appear. Out west toward Long Lake Ranches and the horse-zoned acreage you get large houses with spare bedrooms at fair prices, but you are buying a car-dependent commute along with the room.

• Can I find a room for rent near Nova Southeastern University or Broward College South Campus?

  Yes, and it is the busiest corner of the Davie market. More than 20,000 students attend the Davie campuses and only a fraction live in university housing, so the surrounding blocks in 33314 and 33328 function as de facto student housing. Timing here is not the usual college-town timing: NSU's Health Professions Division programs in osteopathic medicine, dental, pharmacy, optometry and physician assistant studies start their cohorts in the summer, so the scramble for rooms peaks in May through July, ahead of the August undergraduate wave at Broward College South and FAU Davie. FAU's Davie campus is upper-division, so almost everyone there commutes and rents nearby. If you are starting a program, search early and say which term you begin - hosts near campus sort inquiries by move-in date.

• Are Davie rooms for rent near transit, or do I need a car?

  Davie covers about 35 square miles and has no Tri-Rail station of its own, so how car-dependent your room is depends entirely on which road it sits on. East of Flamingo Road you can get by: Broward County Transit routes 2, 9, 12 and 16 plus the University Breeze along University Drive carry most of the load, the town's own Green and Blue community buses feed into them, and a free shuttle links the Sheridan Street Tri-Rail station to the Davie campuses on weekdays. West of Flamingo, in the large-lot and ranch sections, service thins out fast and a car stops being optional. Ask a host which cross streets they are near before you commit, and if you will be commuting to clinical or work sites around Broward, ask how many parking spaces the unit is allotted.

• What should I check before renting a room in a Davie condo or HOA community?

  Much of Davie's shareable housing sits inside associations, and in those communities the association, not your host, decides whether you can move in. Expect an application, a background screening and an approval step that commonly runs two to four weeks, so do not give notice on your current place until it clears. Under Florida condominium law the association may charge no more than $100 per applicant for that screening, $150 for a married couple, and nothing at all on a renewal with the same tenant, so a host quoting several hundred dollars in association fees is worth questioning. Some communities also cap how many units may be leased or require the owner to have held the unit for a year. And because Davie's zoning has allowed horses on many lots since the 1960s, rooms in the western neighborhoods sometimes come bundled with barn or pasture arrangements - fine, but get it written down rather than agreed to verbally.