it was AWFUL
six days in NYC, sleeping on the floor of a friend's apartment, continually making appointments to see apartments and tryign to sync up three different realtors and lots of independent owners and management companies, smiling when you see a shitty apartment, weighing the price versus the areas, hiding realtor appointments from each other, PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE sign this lease NOW, they're all so fucking small, realtor's fees of around $2800, application fees of $150 per apartment and you don't even necessarily get the apartment, spending $16 or more per day on the metro and realising on day 5 i should've gotten an unlimited-week pass for $20something dollars, getting bottles thrown at me in harlem at 2am by a group of young african-american men who shouted "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HARLEM!", more apartments, more pressure, realising i have to throw away half my furniture, etc etc, finally settling on a place and at the lease signing being told i have to sign it for july15th instead of august 1st and so i owe an extra $800 in rent, and hey $150 key deposit, blah blah blah, ARGH!
but we got a place. 85th street between 2nd and 3rd (reallllly nice area), $1600/mo, one bedroom, very small, rather nice though. like 5 blocks from central park etc.
jeez.
six days in NYC, sleeping on the floor of a friend's apartment, continually making appointments to see apartments and tryign to sync up three different realtors and lots of independent owners and management companies, smiling when you see a shitty apartment, weighing the price versus the areas, hiding realtor appointments from each other, PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE sign this lease NOW, they're all so fucking small, realtor's fees of around $2800, application fees of $150 per apartment and you don't even necessarily get the apartment, spending $16 or more per day on the metro and realising on day 5 i should've gotten an unlimited-week pass for $20something dollars, getting bottles thrown at me in harlem at 2am by a group of young african-american men who shouted "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HARLEM!", more apartments, more pressure, realising i have to throw away half my furniture, etc etc, finally settling on a place and at the lease signing being told i have to sign it for july15th instead of august 1st and so i owe an extra $800 in rent, and hey $150 key deposit, blah blah blah, ARGH!
but we got a place. 85th street between 2nd and 3rd (reallllly nice area), $1600/mo, one bedroom, very small, rather nice though. like 5 blocks from central park etc.
jeez.
