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October 23, 2004
Keep your fingers crossed
The Swanktuary hasn't been so swank for for some time. I've tolerated the living conditions because it is so cheap, but the point has arrived where cheap vs. unhealthy, dank, negative, and dangerous becomes a daily war.
I personally think someone should modernize Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a parable of the search for housing in NYC. My friends that have a nice two bedroom apartment close to my loft didn't realize that I was seriously contemplating killing them. A vacancy is a vacancy is a vacancy, and I could afford their place.
I've had to deal with seriously scary people that I swear I've seen on the FBI's wanted list. I've walked through places filled with bird crap, with the owner telling me that the prior owner had over a hundred birds flying free, and I might want to clean up before moving in.
I should just sell my place in Texas, buy a place here, and become a slumlord myself. I'm not going to do anything until the next teaching year, as I don't want to get locked into an area and teach in another borough. I relish the ten minute jaunt to my school in the morning.
Charlie and I finally found a place a block over that is at the top limit of our price range, but it really is a wonderful place. Fourteen foot ceilings, wood floors, HUGE windows that take up an entire wall, basement laundry, and a massive grass space fenced in behind the building that would be perfect for the dogs to run. Bear would get better, I would get better, Charlie would have a room that actually has light. I would build some amazing new bedrooms over the next few weeks, and then we would move in.
I submitted the application and the deposit two days ago. I am the only person on the app, because I'm the only one with good credit (rating is 768). The bad side is that the total amount of rent is almost 80% of my income. Landlord guy told me that he would have a response the next day.
That was two days ago. I fear that we've been rejected, and I have to keep searching. Murder is still a valid way to find a place, at least in NYC.
Mistah Kurtz, he dead.
Posted by G at October 23, 2004 12:52 PM
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Good luck in finding a new place!
Posted by: Lee at October 24, 2004 01:50 AM
Whatever happened to trolling the obits for open apartment space?
Posted by: palochi at October 25, 2004 01:48 PM
Oh lord, am I feelin' you here. That's why I was so desperate to hang onto my place when my previous roommate flew the coop. And why I'm already dreading finding a new one when my current roommate evacuates in February.
Best of luck to you!
Posted by: MzOuiser at October 25, 2004 04:28 PM