Rental Rookie

… at night for anything that could hold my possessions My best finds were the milk crates that bodegas threw away Not … that my family and my boyfriend had to lug my stuff Had I lived in a walkup like many of my friends did it would have … column chronicling her first year as a renter in NYC   … Rent … The Market … Buy … Sales Market … Live … …

… of junk frightened me Unfortunately my mother had drilled into me the importance of keeping house so to oblige my … services for a discount In the last place Mike had lived with roommates the guys had all pitched in to hire a … opted to clean the apartment ourselves I was surprised at how much dust collected in our little railroad apartment …