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These days many New York City apartment buildings offer tenants the opportunity to pay rent with a credit card.  While this may seem ideal, it’s important to keep in mind the possible downside of adding rent to your credit card bill.  The obvious benefit of paying rent with a credit card is that you can [...]

If you’re looking to rent an apartment in Manhattan and yearn for the holy grail of square footage and good location consider Hell’s Kitchen, where plenty of decent apartments are renting at a reasonable price.  Over the last 10 years the neighborhood has gone through its fair share of gentrification bringing to the once dicey [...]

Coming across a solid apartment to rent in New York City is hard enough without also having to deal with getting your security deposit back from the apartment you’re moving out of.  Unfortunately once in a while you run into a landlord who somehow “forgets” to send your security deposit back.  Some people see this as [...]

This is a brief analysis on the Upper East Side Second Avenue Subway Line construction on how it affects and will affect New York apartment rentals now and in the future.
Presently:
With a fragile economy and the train construction on the Upper East side (namely, Second Avenue or on any street that intersects with Second [...]

Every time I walk the streets of Upper East Side I get the urge to sing Beyonce’s song “All the single Ladies.”
And why is that? Well, my personal conclusion is this: Being a woman in NYC is very expensive and thanks to a large selection of rent stabilized and rent controlled apartments on the Upper [...]

NEIGHBORHOOD BORDERS… what’s what?
Welcome to the never ending questions amongst renters, landlords, brokers, developers, investors & everyone in between! Opening arguments please! Where does Clinton Hill begin? Where does Prospect Heights end? Isn’t this Crown Heights?  Is this “prime” Park Slope?  No, wait, it’s actually Park Slope South!  (And so on… )
For all you saavy [...]

From my personal perspective, the Upper West Side can be characterized as “A real sense of neighborhood.”  I always have a feeling of comfort and enjoyment when I walk the streets of this area.  I see plenty of people, fashionably dressed and proudly walking with their adorable pets. With the abundance of parks and trees [...]

If you live in New York City you probably have at least one apartment renting horror story. You probably even have that million-dollar idea to solve the nightmare — but as of today it only exists as a napkin drawing and you still need to find a place. Read on for five ways to lower [...]

On a warm, sunny day in July, I took a ride to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago. By coincidence, it happened to be just a few days after the city’s most distinctive landmark was officially renamed. It’s now called the Willis Tower, for a London-based insurance company that acquired the naming rights. [...]