Luke, there is an apartment building in the 1300 block of Franklin Street that is about the coolest place I've ever seen. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.699359,-97.353202,3a,75y,189.45h,79.91t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOdmAyaQZevJEcidWwbOstw!2e0!6m1!1e1
Since we weren't able to go look at apartments after Spring Break, we just decided to go with an apartment complex for the first year. All of the houses/duplexes for rent wouldn't hold the place for us until June 1st. It will be a lot easier to find one of those when we live in Wichita.
Hey that's near my house! I jog by that place a couple times every week.... I kinda thought it was a semi-retirement home, is it rentable by average Lukes?
Theres not a ton of good places for rent downtown unfortunately. Innis Station can be manageable if you can score a spot in the private parking garage. Eaton Place is pretty good, but kinda dumpy in some places. Theres some converted lofts on 430 S Commerce that I friend of mine used to live in that as I recall, she liked pretty well.
Just live somewhere and save up to buy a house somewhere, the rental market in Wichita is way overpriced and houses are cheap.