 Twitter's impending relocation to Mid-Market district has driven local rents up 60%! This also has driven out the local flavor of the area. Soon, the vagabonds, addicts and ladies of the night will be replaced with tech yuppie tweeting on their smartphones and IT hipsters sipping their hoity toity coffee. Add Comment The rental company that offers subsidized government housing took Amber Portwood of MTV's Teen Mom series to court. Judge ruled she abused the system meant to help struggling people while she raked in the bucks to a tune of $280,000/yr!
As host for Real Estate Web Series on eHow.com, I answer a question we got from a viewer: What are the disadvantages to apartments? Let me know if I missed any! The Disadvantages of Apartments -- powered by ehow  Boo! Is a renter entitled to their deposit back if the house is haunted? This New Jersey couple thinks so! After moving in for 1 week, they witnessed "paranormal activity at the house, including lights that switch on and off by themselves, clothes and towels mysteriously ejected from closets, unintelligible whispering, footsteps in the kitchen and a mysterious force tugging at bedsheets during the night." They are suing to get back their $2,250 security deposit. IMHO, it was never noted that it was "haunted" before so they will have a tough time proving this was not just buyers' remorse. Not only that, but who is to say the renters weren't the ones who brought the ghost in the 1st place!  concrete jungle where dreams are made of Look at this NYC Celeb Rental Map by Rentannae & compare what you would pay in rent with what these stars fork over each month! They oughta do one for each big city!...with all that dough fattening some landlord's wallet, you'd think these celebs would buy!
 After listing his $4.49M condo in March for 7 days, Andrew Madoff has decided to rent it out for $25k/mo. Is he cash strapped? “They assume that my mother & I have billions of dollars that people lost sitting in our bank accounts. We don’t acuteally have it,” Andrew Madoff has said. Do you believe him? I do. Why? He & his mom may not have billions but I'd bet my life they still have MILLIONS!  Due to NYC rent control, Thomas Lombardi pays $55.01/month for a one-bedroom at 5 Spring Street in SoHo. This is unheard of! Simply amazing? Shocking? Unfair? Maybe it's sour grapes for me. Market rate would be $2500/mo. Gee, I feel bad for that poor (literally) landlord...but then again, apparently this landlord never filed paperwork to increase rent either.  Nene has the BEST expressions! She can diss u in 1 glance! Mediatakeout questions Nene's (of Real Housewives of Atlanta on BravoTV) priorities for RENTING her house. Their Zillow screen capture of her townhouse shows her rent is a mere $1900/mo, which pales in comparison to her $100k car and $20k purse. It can appear her priorities are outta whack...but who's to say her car & purse aren't rented too!! So if she is leasing everything, I guess in some odd way, her priorities are in line then?  A landlord is evicting a tenant for being over $50,000 late in rent and re-painting the walls (forbidden by lease). Honestly, I have little sympathy for this landlord. If you know a tenant has historically been a trouble maker, why would you be surprised s/he would act differently in your rental? It's Courtney Love for heaven's sake! Drugs, rehab, money drama, daughter emancipated herself. Duh, she's a live wire. And you let her live in your hoity-toity $8M historical NYC residence. If she were anyone else, this landlord would not have rented it out. I suspect landlord got blinded by having a "celebrity" tenant. But, celebs are people too! |
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