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I wish I get an apartment in Manhattan I’ve been in Brooklyn for over 23 years. I only live in a house instead of an apartment. I always love the travel and John I’m trying to find something that makes me happy like some thing that impresses me to what mistakes I can’t make and where to live if I can’t be uncomfortable with mice and pest problems.
A deal-breaker for me is being above a bar or club (sound of the music also, people tend to be very loud when they're drunk and leaving at 2 a.m.). Another deal-breaker is an apartment with only 2-prong outlets. To me, that is a sign that the building has old wiring and I would want to live someplace where I could plug in my electronics without worrying about a short or an electrical fire.
I live right above a restaurant. I paid no attention to it before I moved in but it turns out they transform it into a club almost every night! I literally feel the bass in my kitchen and hear the bass in my kitchen/bedroom all the time! So it's not just bars and clubs, it can be restaurants too.
@@RU-vidfan567 Those are the worst since they go from normal restaurants to loud clubs from 8pm-4am. And many clubs attract the motorcycle gangs from out of town how like to rev their engines and do show off burnouts in the street at midnight. Fans and sleeping with noise canceling heaphones didn't even help. Never again.
I love how literally the FIRST thing you say is to check the water pressure, though I would add that you should also do the same thing in the bathroom, not just the kitchen sink, and you should fill up the sink/tub halfway and then let it drain, to see how the drainage works too. That was something I learned the hard way, when I rented my first apartment after finishing college, because it seemed nice but the water pressure and drainage were absolute garbage.
Most times after a tent moves out the land lord redo the entire apartment and there won't be many signs of rotents if the apartment is recently updated maybe around 6 months or to a year or when u start cooking and running water is whwn you see all these things.... When the land lord knows that people are coming to check out the apartment they will make sure the super cleans the hallway and take the trash out but once u live there especially if u live on the ground floor you'll smell the trash apartment that are in the back of the building may have really bad service so watch out for that and check for leaks under the sinks from the pipe and the back of the stove for rotents and check the water pressure in the shower too
I've definitely made a few of these mistakes. I'd also like to add: try your best to know about the landlord before signing the lease. It's somewhat impossible to know the landlord will be an issue until you've already moved in, but if you get any bad vibes before signing, RUN. I also recommend opening up the windows to smell if the air is fresh (particularly if the apartment faces alleys and courtyards). Big mistake I made
I had an apartment with a garbage shoot in the building and my unit shared a wall with the shoot. My place was roach city even though it was super clean and sprayed a lot. I will never live in a unit close to a garbage shoot again 🤢
Omgggg same! I will never do that ever again. I just moved out of an apartment where the shoot was literally right next to my door, like cutting into my apartment and separated by a wall. Roaches, fruit flies and it was awful!! Worst is the landlord hid it and lied about it before I moved in. I forced him to lower the rent because the flies were impossible to remove due to all the garbage people left in the room.
Most cities in Denmark has shout them off completely for the same reasons. Trash is mostly put into designated sheds in the backyards between buildings. We are mandated to sort trash in 10 different containers so we need the space for all of it. A shoot would be fruitless.
The deal breaker for me would be BUGS of any kind! The window in the "Dracula Room" is pointless, it should just be sealed off... The windows with the cleaning supplies just outside looks like very easy access for robbers. If I looked at both of these apartments, I would keep on looking...
Bugs and rodents are inevitable in nyc. My first month living in my current apartment a massive water bug the size of my hand (not exaggerating) crawled on my foot. It's a feeling I'll never forget. And I live on the fourth floor of my building nowhere near the garbage.
If you are in the Dracula room you could just fly up the shaft, it’s what any self respecting vampire would do. Just make sure to check whether daylight is a risk.
Water pressure in the shower is even more important (IMO) as I have long hair -- if it only trickles, rinsing shampoo and/or conditioner out could be a deal breaker.
As a maintaince worker in Park Slope Garbage and Recycleing is very important. Recycle paper and metal must have decals to know where to put your recycleables. anything that is not recycable is garbage. Buildings who dont recycle can be subject to fines by the DSNY
For me, an absolute dealbreaker would be a basement apartment. I lived in a basement for a few years while I lived in Brooklyn. I hated every moment of it.
Another tip related to looking under the sink would be to take a flashlight and try to inspect corners, floors and cupboards along with anything behind appliances if possible
Those NYC developers arent going to be happy till they have people living in the equivalent of Prison Cells, whilst charging you top dollar for it. My rent here, in Scotland, for a two bed Flat/Appartment, is only around £475 per month
@@AshleyLiveinthelifeofAshleyD sounds like a great idea! So all the Rockefellers of the world will be paying the same rent as the hamburger flipper at the local MacDonald's. Brilliant! Let's send it in writing to Deblasio 😉.
You had the best special guest. Cash is amazing. He doesn’t take his subscribers through the looking under the sink and chalking test...lol. Thank you for this video. I’m going to be a pro (when...lol) I moved to NY from the Volunteer State.
The Dracula room is perfect for me to sleep in! Don’t know why people seem to be so keen to have a sunny bedroom. Typically you want things to be dark when you’re sleeping. I’d pick a window in the living room over the bedroom anyday. Plus dark Dracula rooms are perfect for night shift workers :)
@chemb001 exactly. many ways to have rodents and roaches. bars/restaurants that leave food in bags, building garbage not constantly closed in a sealed container, neighbors that are dirty, mind you only need one of them. many sources in. in all the buildings i have visited, upuptown manhattan, i have been told: "you know, this is normal, it is ny". i've had them myself in my apt even though we never leave food behind, we take all food garbage out every single day, even pack up most things inside sealed containers. Useless, we still have had rodents visit us more than once. So hard to seal all potential gaps, but that is your only option.
@chemb001 most nyc apartments outside of manhattan don't have trash in the hall. Even if a stray roach wanders into your building from outside, it actually doesn't mean you'll have a problem either. It's pretty easy to tell when a building is infested if you look in all the corners of cupboards and closets. I've had the same apartment in queens for almost 6 years and have never had an issue with them.
5 years of living on the Upper East Side in the mid 80's in a walk up studio apartment. Watching this video is going to induce nightmares. So glad I moved away from that hell hole..Best decision I ever made.
I'm watching this video as well and then Cash Jordan's version of this video. I love both of your channels and it's great to get both of your perspectives.
@@HereBeBarr Yeah. You are right. You both used the term "Rental Collapse" in your titles so I was thinking they might be the same, but they were different. Either way, they were both good videos.
My husband and I are retiring in 2 years. NYC is my fist choice for a new city. I love getting helpful hints and tricks like this on what to look for. Subscribed to both of your channels - thanks!
OMG! I can't believe you guys are together in this video! I just posted a comment to you the other day saying I'd been away from your channel for a bit---And it was because I was binge watching Cash and Charles! Yesterday I was thinking "I wonder if they know each other?" I take this as a Synchronicity Sign!
Good luck living in NYC or any other major city haha. I even get them in my South FL townhouse every now and then (not often). I hate when the lizards come in heh.
@@onlyzach1 I lived in South Florida many years ago (Coral Springs) and I well remember the Palmetto bugs, sugar ants, fire ants and all the other creepy crawlies lol!
Be careful living on top of a restaurant. I did and I heard the exhaust fan all day, and sometimes all night when they forgot to turn it off. I lived on the top floor, that is where you would hear it most.
Always look for bugs! Living above restaurants, bars = bugs. Great point about checking where garbage is stored. I have lived in apartments where people threw trash out in the halls and this was in a smaller town, not NY.
Good Tips! Some of the stuff I never even thought of! Trying to rent my apartment so defiantly going to point out our clean garbage area and no rodents under the sink! Thanks :)
In my experience living above a restaurant can be very malodorous, especially if it’s a seafood restaurant. Also I’ve noticed more pest issues above a restaurant/bar than a non food/beverage CRU
Love Cash Jordan & watch his videos. Surprised he didn't say that medicine cabinets were a dealbreaker 🤣 I'm in Australia but we look for similar things in rental places: location, street noise, cleanliness, storage space, water pressure, natural light levels etc.
A deal-breaker for me is if there are no Fios internet. Every year I'm stuck with either Spectrum or RCN. Verizon refuses to set up Fios in my building (it's suspicious). I have to connect to the internet using cables to get "good" speed. Wifi is trash.
Is “FIOS” referring to fiber optic? Cable internet can be comparable to fiber, but copper can’t compete. To do a full build in a building can be expensive, especially if the building is old. Sometimes providers want the building to pay for it, and often the building refuses.
I don’t think I would take either. I used to be really into living in the city but now it means less to me. I’ll stay in Brooklyn for now and move to the subs next.
That commute tho. I can’t decide what’s worse, living in subpar conditions in the city with easier/faster access to your office versus the burbs and spending hours on the train. I have friends who metro-north in from CT everyday and it’s killing them.
@@EastSide-qc5oy For some people living in the further out neighborhoods outer boroughs a subway trip from South Brooklyn or the north Bronx takes as long or longer than Metro North from CT (especially hen the subway is having delays)
hansonel That’s a good point. Definitely depends on where you live exactly and where you work. Also some would argue Metro-North is a more comfortable ride. If your office is easy walkable from Grand Central, Metro-North isn’t so bad depending on where you are coming from (and how far you live from local Metro-North station).
Great video! I appreciated the tip to test the hot water in the kitchen sink. We learned the hard way to test the temp of the hot water in the shower. Ask if you have control over the temperature of the hot water. I lived in a studio in another city up the coast with chronically lukewarm "hot" water. Had to pay a plumber to come in to adjust the temp on the (electric) hot water tank. Then my monthly electric bill was sky high LOL.
I know we're not going to end up finding out what 'hood you guys are moving to until the end of this series but the suspense is killing me. I'm placin' bets on Brooklyn.
When are you and Adriana moving! Now is a good time to get a better deal and more space! LOL, good tips in this video. The first place isn't too bad but I think for the price you can find a better place in that area. Dealbreakers: A walk-up, ( I used to live in a 4th-floor walk-up. Never again! Being above a bar is a no-no for me. Not good water pressure and water that is not hot enough.
Check in the shower/bath, not just the sinks. Also check the drainage, like fill them up halfway and see how fast the water will drain when you let it out. I learned that the hard way, when I rented my first apartment after college lol
Adding to everything that Cash, and you guys already mentioned probably if the location is too far from the Metro station is not good. Also if there is no laundry in the apartment (which I hear is already rare in NYC), and no laundry in the basement of the apartment building, then if it's not in the let's say couple of blocks area of the apartment then it's a deal breaker for sure. No sun a deal breaker.
I just heard in some rentals the landlord controls the temperature; so if its freezing outside you can't do anything to turn the heat up! That would be a dealbreaker for me. Also, noisy neighbors.
That usually means that heat is free though! Radiators are legally included so you can save hundreds of not thousands during the winter when compared to places with electric heat.
Good tips! Usually pests, plumbing, and electric should be checked. As for preferences I only work in Manhattan but live in Queens because space space space! Not only living space but less neighbors, less people, less noise, more trees. And yeah I wouldn’t do walk ups - even with small elevator (prewar) had plenty of challenges.
I moved into my first NYC apartment based on a video (moved from out-of-state) and absolutely will use these tips next year when looking for new places! Just hope the prices stay down. My place is about $900 cheaper than it was the last time it was on the market and I still think it's overpriced.
It's not actually made to let light in, it's made to be an airshaft. You see these airshafts very often in older buildings, because back when these buildings were all tenement apartments, the city began mandating that every room have a window that at least allowed air to flow, people people were dying of disease so much in the late 1800s/early 1900s when they were packed into these cramped tenements with no air movement or light.
Not NYC but man, looking for the sealant is a must. First apartment I moved into with my wife it was just an endless parade of bugs coming through the cracks. After one notable rainfall, the apartment even flooded. We later found out there were cracks in the foundation and eventually discovered mold in a carpeted (secondary) bedroom. That sped up our timeline to move.
Good video/tips. If I could add my suggestion for -- yuck! -- bugs. A solution of 10% bleach and 90% water ; and spray the little devils. Be careful because the bleach will bleach the color out of your clothing and rugs. So, take care not to spray it onto your clothing. Check for colorfastness on your carpet by spraying a bit in an out of the way corner of the carpet. Check back in 10 minutes. If that corner has turned white -- do not use bleach on your carpets! Where it might be good is, as you showed, under the sinks. But, in a corner of your kitchen if it is tiled or has linoleum, would be good. Or, you could use bleach cleaner. Another product that you could use is window cleaner with ammonia. That you could spray just about anywhere. But, I have found the bleach solution to be more effective. Even if you have mice/rats. But, be very mindful of the children and pets.
I loved that "hidden" private roof-deck. Also, it looked like there was a little wine fridge in the second one (I'd co-opt that for film instead of wine 😂)
I would also look at ease of access as far as Moving in a couch of a double bed. Also carrying groceries in those cramped hallways also. Also the lighting of the hallways. The darker it is the creepier it is. The Smell also.
Oh having laundry in your apartment is huge. Most buildings don't have laundry at all, and going to a laundromat is such a pain. I have a laundry room in my building, but it would be a dream to have my own units in my apartment lol.
I would definitely want the top floor..!!.I have lived on the bottom floor before, and believe me, the noise above me was AWFUL . .!. .checking for roaches and entries for rodents would be high on my list..👍👍
@@HereBeBarr different people different preferences. I'd take certainly a sixth floor over a second one. At the end of the day you might walk up twice to your apt, but you have to deal with noises, mice, roaches every single second you are in.
Try living on the top floor wnd you're constantly hearing the neighbors above playing their music whenever they come in and out the building you can hear when their door slams, also you can hear the kids running back and forth. In the apartment next to them . And also hearing the moving and music from the spanish restaurant blasting because all the walls are super thin .smh..
Clean your apartment, I worked in building management and 80% of the apartments that have complained of rodents and bugs were absolutely disgusting, stoves, fridges, microwaves, ac units were never cleaned by the tenant! Bugs and rats gotta eat too and your apartment is a 5 star restaurant for them
I grew up in a small town in southern Indiana. We had a soybean field behind our house but were still in the city limits! Something you would see on the sidewalks was the chewing tobacco that people had spit out!
£3k a month is the dealbreaker for me! I get it. New York prices, but when I look at the cost of renting an apartment in NYC vs my roughly $500 a month 3 bedroom house in the UK, my dream of having a place in NYC will remain exactly that. A dream. Unless I win big on the lottery!
Thanks for the tips! My dream is to move to NYC and my parents don’t believe me lol so ive been wacthing alot of your vids and its definetly educated me more bout the city and my future home. Keep doing what your doing, stay safe🤗🧡
