DeSoto Apartment Locator: Hampton Road Complexes and Three Bedroom Houses

DeSoto isn't a DART member city. With Cedar Hill and Duncanville outside DART too, a car is normal across this part of the county. Count its cost when you compare with towns that have rail. The nearest train is UNT Dallas station, the south end of the Blue Line, northeast of town.

I-35E is the fast route north to Downtown Dallas, roughly 15 miles away, and US-67 runs just west toward Oak Cliff and Midlothian. Both jam at rush hour. Which one you'll use comes down to your side of town. Wintergreen Road is the back way toward Cedar Hill and Lancaster when Hampton backs up.

Before you sign, drive from the property to work once at the hour you'd go.

Hampton Road and Pleasant Run have most of the apartments, in garden complexes from the 1970s and 1980s. Many updated only part of their units, so one complex quotes two prices. Get the quote tied to the unit you'll actually rent.

Belt Line Road and Wintergreen Road have older complexes with more flexible screening, where steady income can outweigh a score the newer buildings would turn away. Many of them put the whole building on one meter and bill every home the same flat utility charge. That's how a lower rent there can end up costing more than a metered unit down the road.

Newer buildings sit along South Polk Street and near I-35E, and houses and homes built to rent are a big share of the market, especially with three or four bedrooms. Ten Mile Creek runs through the city, so look up the property on the federal flood map before you apply.