Archive for October 8th, 2007
The Great Apartment Hunt: Chapter Six
We had really decided that we weren’t going to look in Battery Park City. The rents here have gotten so out-of-hand that people are paying $2600/month and $3100/month for 1-bedrooms. I don’t get it. I mean, my apartment’s nice, but it’s not THAT nice.
For shits and giggles, though, I checked out one of the local brokers. There are three down here in this little neighborhood… which makes renting down here a pain in the ass. One of them, though, had places in another building by our same management company for $2300/month… with “negotiable.”
Hmm.
Turns out the building is also in Rector Place; literally right down the street. We looked at two places, both by owner, not by the management company.
Apartment One: A small one-bedroom $2400/month. Basically the exact same apartment I have now but a little smaller. Come to find out it was a studio when it was purchased and the owner installed a wall to make it a one-bedroom. Big bathroom and huge closets. Cons: one entire wall was mirrors. Real creepy. I know I don’t hang out with a whole lot of people down here but watching TV with myself is a little strange.
Apartment Two: The one we actually saw online. It’s “negotiable” because the owner hasn’t painted it or really cleaned it since the last tenant left. The negotiable part was how much work we expected to be done on it. One of the benefits of living in a city where everyone is posh and lazy, I guess, is that if you’re willing to do a little bit of work, you can save yourself some money. I agreed to paint it, clean it, and handle the replacement of the blinds for if he came down from the asking price.
Leaving BPC is starting to look dim.