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No, that headline's not hyperbole: according to Refinery29's recent story on millennial women's apartment-hunting habits—fueled by results from a Rent.com survey data of 1000 renters—a lot of millenial women would literally rather give birth than deal with the apartment hunt. We suspect a lot of respondents would change their mind after, y'know, actually dealing with childbirth, but still. It's dramatic.

As BrickUnderground readers know, our fundamental mission is to help current and future New Yorkers learn everything they need to know about renting, buying, and selling real estate here.   Starting today, you can also launch your apartment search from any page of BrickUnderground by clicking the green TripleMint property search button at the top and right-hand side of every page to start buying, selling or renting.

Think the Craiglist apartment photos you've seen are bad? Check out this week's batch from Andy Donaldson, the man behind the addictive Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, who adds his own spin to these unfortunately very real sales pics.

In honor of the 4th, we're ducking out a little early, the better to get started on all our weekend grilling and fireworks-viewing. We'll be back to normal on Monday, with some light holiday reading up tomorrow for those of you in need of a mid-day Internet break. Have a safe, fun holiday weekend! 

Sometimes we simply can't believe the photos sellers use to tout their homes. Thanks to Andy Donaldson, the man behind the addictive Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, we get to see the gems below.