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Your NYC Apartment
#25re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:37pmHow can you afford 2000/month?
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#26re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:38pm
"Mine is over $2000. That means it's not, and won't be?"
That is correct. Your landlord can ask any amount he wants for the apartment. If it was stabilized, a committee decides each year the percentage of rent increase.
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#27re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:40pmHm...good thing I'm moving out in August.
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#28re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:41pm
Sure, you can get a studio for 950/month. Harlem, Inwood, and outside Manhattan.
I pay 1,200 for mine. But I get to live by myself, have a full kitchen, and all that.
Though I admit, I am on the lookout for a studio in Manhattan. Just putting out some feelers, though.
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#29re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:42pmI hadn't heard of that, Gotham. oy! If they are becoming very rare, why is it that every time they have the meeting to vote on the rent increases, they quote something like over a million apts? Maybe I'm lucky-in my building, they are renting apts. over the $2000 mark, but adhering to the stabilization laws.
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#30re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:42pm
"How can you afford 2000/month?"
Unfortunately, this is pretty standard for a 1 bedroom, free market apartment in Manhattan.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#31re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:43pm
Munk, how can you afford to pay that?
Do you live with someone?
Even if you pay 1000/month...how can you afford that?
Also, this poster asks how much you guys pay, the only one that said it was Munk, the rest went like "oh...I pay more than I should, blah, blah" but he wanted to know about numbers. Not if you pay more than you should.
And definitly, you should go and explore any city before you move there.
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#32re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:44pm
I put down my price!
Ah, NY Living. You pay so much for the apartment, and you WILL buy at least ONE thing at the coffee stand. I feel like its a law.
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#33re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:44pmI mean, you guys are like 21, I don't know how anyone about that age could afford an apt. unless you have rich parents or a daddy.
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#34re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:46pmI live in a guy's living room. Really. That's what I've come to. Actually, it's not bad at all. He recently paid to have a wall and door built to make the living room more like a bedroom, but before that the "wall" was a curtain rod and a sheet. But I have a lot of space and the rent is affordable. ($475) Oh, and I live in Brooklyn. Yeah, Manhattan is out of reach for me. Craigslist is my friend!
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#35re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:46pm
"Also, this poster asks how much you guys pay, the only one that said it was Munk, the rest went like "oh...I pay more than I should, blah, blah" but he wanted to know about numbers."
Some people consider how much they pay in rent a very personal question.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#36re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:49pm
That's true.
I'm still in school, and my studio is WAY cheaper than NYU housing.
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#37re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:56pmThe kids I work with (I say kids in an endearing way) are always moving around and looking for apts. Some of them go to brokers, and some use Craig's list, and some just get word of mouth. Bottom line is that they all seem to find good deals (let's say around 400-600) with a room mate or two. Usually they are in Queens or Brooklyn, so seek and you shall find!
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#38re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 10:59pmThere's a major part of me taht wants to find that perfect apartment and grab it before it get ssold into condos and loses any rent stability.
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#39re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 11:11pm
I think it's a personal question, which is why I didn't answer it.
If I didn't answer it once, twice, three times, take the hint, muscle.
Why do you care how I afford it? It's none of your business.
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#40re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/15/07 at 11:59pmJane-it's so true! I've lived in four apartments in three years. And I actually really like Brooklyn, even if it isn't exactly where I dreamed of living.
#41re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:06amthat's great! Brooklyn and Astoria seem to be where most of our staff lives.
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#42re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:15am
"Uh, it's sort of a 3-story loft. The first floor has a kitchen and a closet, the second floor has a bathroom, living area, and my bedroom, and the third floor has a bedroom and a vanity area, with a large closet"
"I pay a bit of money for it, I'm not sure it's really worth what I pay, but I obviously love it"
"I live on the upper east side, and LOVE it"
"The majority of Manhattan is nice and safe. It's the cheap part that comes into play"
"I rent and I haven't heard a whisper about rent stabilization"
-I get the feeling, although I can be wrong, that you are some kind of show-off, not too many 21 year olds can afford that. So I was just wondering, I don't care about you Munk in particular, if any other person about your age, would post that, I'd ask them. Im curious and yes, I'd love to be able to afford a 2000-dollar loft in the Upper East Side. So maybe I wanted to know how you got to afford that, but not in a judgemental way, but as a form of admiration. Yet you have proven to be kinda shady. But it's all good. Congrats on your loft!
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-Felicia Finley-
#43re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:17am
I have a 1000-sq. ft. 1-bedroom in a new-construction Karl Fischer-designed building in the low 100s on the East Side (Spanish Harlem, if I must) with a granite and stainless-steel pro kitchen, travertine bathroom, washer/dryer, central air/heat, and we pay just shy of $2,000 a month. Totally worth it for all the amenities in the home, and pretty manageable between the two of us. The same apartment with the same features in the neighborhoods I really *want* to live in would easily push the $3,000/mo. mark, but my living environment is more important than my location, so I'll gladly put up with the inconvenient location for a great apartment.
It's all about trade-offs...
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#44re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:20am
1 bedroom w/ laundry in basement and elevator. $800 a month. Brooklyn. 3 blocks from the train and 20-30 minutes from Downtown.
...and you've ALL seen my kitchen.
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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 01:20 AM
#45re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:22amI, for one, have been privy to the bedroom.
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#46re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:26amI live in Fort Lauderdale FL, in an ok area, and pay $ 600 a month for a studio. I can barely afford it! Just to have a reference for a price in another US city.
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#48re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:38am
muscle, your audacity is amazing. What the hell business is it of yours how ANYONE pays for their rent? Why is Munk not telling you "shady"?
If he has a rich family, a sugar daddy or turns tricks on the corner it is really none of your freaking business.
PEACE.
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#49re: Your NYC Apartment
Posted: 4/16/07 at 1:57amsue , I agree it's none of our business but it is strange that a young man like munk can afford all THAT.
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