Lucy Cohen Blatter

This $4,550 two-bedroom is in the full-service RiverEast building. Clocking in at 1,000-square-feet, it's also generously sized.

Pros: The full-service building includes a sun deck and an indoor pool and is owned and managed by top-tier landlord Rose Associates. The apartment has stainless appliances, granite countertops, marble baths and a washer-dryer.

Financing is not the sexiest part of the real estate game, but for many buyers, it's the most important.

This 1,250-square-foot $5,500 two-bedroom condo at 243 West 98th Street, between West End and Broadway, is the stuff no-fee dreams are made of (at least for those who can afford it).

There's an open house this Sunday.

Pros: The apartment has been gut renovated and has condo-style finishes (and a washer-dryer). And look at that kitchen!

Pricey as it may be, the location of this $5,000 Chelsea one-bedroom at 130 West 15th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, is hard to beat. Note the building, the Sierra, is non-smoking.

For the first time since we started this column, we're focusing our attention on the Bronx -- the semi-suburban feeling Riverdale to be exact.

This two-bedroom (convertible to a three-bedroom) at 630 West 246th Street is being offered for $2,695 a month.