60,000 NYCers Apply for 14 Rent- Controlled Micro Apartments (255 sqft- $950 to $1450) vol Carmel Pl

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14 of the units are designated for rent controlled, $950 if you make less than $48,000 and $1400 if you make $78,000. The rest of the units are going at market value, which is $2,500 to $3,150 for the jumbo sized 315 sq ft unit.

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That's awful. Give me a mansion in Georgia or even upstate NY over this claustrophobic nightmare.
 
Couldn't do it, man.

Makes me nauseous even thinking about living in that small space
 
GetBack said:
That's awful. Give me a mansion in Georgia or even upstate NY over this claustrophobic nightmare.
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The funny thing is you dont even need to go upstate you can go right in the bronx or queens and get a decent apartment. Westchester county (30 min away) you can prob rent a house.

People just want the rent controlled apartment because they know they can air bnb it or they plan on keeping it for 50 years and passing it down to their kids kids kids kids kids.
 
Curbed.com posts listings, mostly to make fun of the living situation in NYC, this joint in Chinatown wanted $1,995 and the shower is in the kitchen.

I couldn't do it. I'd have to find a nook in the city where everything is walkable and my social life is just flourishing, and ni a building that has amenities to cover for the lack of space and ability to do them in your own home (do any buildings have common kitchens?), and maybe I could have done it at a different point in life. These loft beds over your living space though and common bathrooms out in the hall :x That ain't life. I'd probably just go the meet a stranger on CL and pay $2,000 to rent a 10x10 room or live in Jersey of Connecticut or like 30 minutes away. Couldn't do it though. Feel like I'd need to be making 200k to live in NYC and even still I hated dealing with subways and buses.
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Here is a few $1,800 listings in different parts of the city. http://ny.curbed.com/2016/3/29/11322026/nyc-rent-williamsburg-gowanus-upper-east-side-comparison

Any of these are much better options. In fact, I could do these no problem.
 
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GetBack said:
 
 claustrophobic nightmare.
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i have the opposite, agoraphobia, (fear of open spaces, and isolation), so a single family home in the middle of the burbs or country would have me like...
 
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Buy a regular sized place and live in the walk in closet. They have these things down here called PODs, they're storage units that are portable, that rent for $65 a month. You can surely buy one for under a grand, go fro 8x8 to 16x8 which I think rents for $100. Hell, you can buy big storage units for $2,000, the huge kind they bring things overseas in. Buy/rent a parking space and drop one of these in it or get the small ones and put it on a truck. Now you have a car and a place to live.

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They have some of these "Mirco-studios" pupping up in Seattle. :smh:

176-300 square feet apartments with common kitchen +dining room and a common shower. You only got a single sink, a toilet, and a mini fridge, but rent is still $800+.

Its insane.
 
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Here's a software engineer who works at Google and bought a 16 foot box truck and lives in it, which is an interesting solution. He's 23, presumably makes 6 figures, paid 10k for the truck and does everything else at google, just has to sleep there is his rationalization. #theextentpeoplegototoavoidtheflyoverpartofthecountry
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Damb that's brilliant except when u got the bg's while ur sleeping
 
No actual NYer would actually want to live in that box.

Real NYers are migrating out, these dumb people that want to live within 9sq feet are not NYers
 
That's more than my rent and my bedroom alone is bigger than this lol
 
I'm actually outgrowing NYC.

Eventually, thinking about settling down somewhere close to Houston. Live like royalty for the same cost of a miniature condo over here.
 
trunks206 said:
They have some of these "Mirco-studios" pupping up in Seattle. :smh:

176-300 square feet apartments with common kitchen +dining room and a common shower. You only got a single sink, a toilet, and a mini fridge, but rent is still $800+.

Its insane.
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Fools :x
 
i would buy like 3-4 of these though and plop em on some land if i had it.

renting one though... :x
 
The owners of these prison cell sized appartments must be making a gigantic profit 
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Blatant finessing 
 
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