Leah Hochbaum Rosner

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Low-Fee Rental Roundup: Morningside Heights, East Village, Long Island City and more, from $1,950 to $4,360 a month
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 28, 2014 - 10:38 AM
If you’d rather get a root canal than pay a broker’s fee—which can amount to up to 15% of your annual rent—you'll want to check out the countless no-fee and low-fee places (with fees up to 9%) available at rental website Naked Apartments. Browse the apartments featured here in our Low Fee Rental Roundup or head to Naked Apartments and search by “no fee” or “low-fee” to see lots more. Want to see one of these locales this very second? Naked Apartments will send a broker over to meet you there in a jiffy with its Showings on Demand feature.
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Buy Curious: Which part of Upper Manhattan is right for you? A neighborhood breakdown
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 23, 2014 - 10:50 AM
Thinking about buying a place in Upper Manhattan, but don’t know much about our various neighborhoods to the north? Harlem specialist Clyde Tate of City Connections gives us a closer look in this week’s Buy Curious.
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Low-Fee Rental Roundup: Battery Park City, Bed-Stuy, Astoria and more, from $2,150 to $6,100 a month
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 22, 2014 - 11:01 AM
Can’t stand apartment-hunting in the cold? Don’t. Rental website Naked Apartments makes it easy to search hundreds of no-fee and even low-fee apartments (with broker’s fees of 0-9% of a year’s rent vs. the typical 12-15%) from the privacy (and warmth) of wherever you are huddling down with your computer. Check out the places listed here in our Low Fee Rental Roundup or head over to Naked Apartments and hunt by “no fee” or “low-fee.” Willing to brave the cold to see one of these places? Naked Apartments will make sure a broker’s there to meet you with its Showings on Demand feature.
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Take It or Leave It: Would you shell out $4,495/month for this pre-war Gramercy Park 2-bedroom?
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 22, 2014 - 08:59 AM

Our trio of longtime renters tackles a no-fee pre-war Gramercy Park 2-bedroom with its original crown molding and a large sunken living room in this week’s Take It or Leave It. Our panelists—who have 43 years of combined rental experience between them—are RentHackr founder Zeb Dropkin, freelance writer Lambeth Hochwald, and BrickUnderground’s own senior contributing editor, Lucy Cohen Blatter.

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Buy Curious: Is $500k enough to buy a good investment property in Manhattan?
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 16, 2014 - 10:44 AM
Thinking of buying an investment property in the city...for under $500,000? BOND New York’s Michael Signet reveals which neighborhoods will give you the best bang for your buck in this week’s Buy Curious.
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Take It or Leave It: A $2,550/month East Village one-bedroom...in a building that sometimes doubles as a hotel
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
January 15, 2014 - 11:07 AM

This time around, our Take It or Leave It renters debate the merits of a recently renovated low-fee 1-bedroom in an East Village walk-up. Our panel—who have 43 years of collective rental experience between them—consists of RentHackr founder Zeb Dropkin, freelance writer Lambeth Hochwald, and BrickUnderground’s own senior editor, Lucy Cohen Blatter.

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