THANK YOU for making the point of not wanting to hear "move out of New York" every time I hear that it annoys me so much! "I get a much bigger space in this city for that amount" blah blah!! I looove living here and enjoyed this video!! I currently live in a studio in UES and even though I really look forward to be able to move to a 1 bedroom I am thankful for my little space in this location. Cant wait to see your future videos!
@Fish that is true. Just today I got locked out of my apartment because the lock is old. I called the locksmith that is on the handle of my door and he literally charged me $600 that I dont have just out of pocket. I told my landlord that literally it’s because the lock is old and I had to spend all this money and it shouldn’t be the tenant’s fault. If course they are not going to help me or return my money :(
I’m 61 and was born and raised in New York City…… I grew up in a co-op my parents owned we didn’t have to go thru brokers there were only newspapers and supers. So it is amazing to see the change now I’m in San Francisco 🙋🏻♀️👏🏼👏🏼good luck darling
Just started the lease on my studio but still obsessed with seeing the other rentals and giving myself FOMO/feeling super happy and lucky with my decision. Loved this video, the nyc rental market PTSD is real, cheers!
Hello Urvi, Thank you for your reporting on apartment hunting. You gave a well documented tour and explanation of apartment hunting. I am glad to hear that you found your dream apartment. I am familiar with the area that you will be moving into. It is such a nice, quiet area and it seems safe for you to live in as a single-person. Take care Urvi and Good luck.
I highly recommend working with a single broker. They can do the searching for you (sounds like you're saying you spend a lot of time searching), and they can also know about listings before they come up, or other off-market opportunities. Loyalty pays off, I can vouch for it!
For me, as a European who would never want to live there except to come as a tourist, because the city is an icon and it is New York after all... But everything there is somehow abnormally expensive because it is simply not realistic and the terms of the contract are abnormally difficult and the quality of life It is very questionable. I think for the average person is not that good at all... Because at some area of town there are horribly ugly underground stations,very scary too go down at night with big crime rate and a lot of drugs, gangs and homeless people.Actually only downtown Manhattan is the quality of life to go in New York. Life in Europe is much better in my opinion But certainly New York is special and always will be
Between the high rents and application fees (what's that about?) - the very small dark rooms - with kitchens being the size of a postage stamp, I wouldn't be able to handle it.
I'm thinking that's annually. I'm used to hearing it expressed as you need to make 3 or 4x the rent per month., but I don't live in NYC, so maybe the norm there is to think about it on an annual rather than monthly basis.
