Posts by Margot Slade:
"I live in a million dollar apartment and I still have to go to the basement to do laundry. We call it the million dollar hovel. Stupid real estate," grouses an apartment-dweller in an UrbanBaby.com discussion sparked by this statement: "I have a washer and dryer in the kitchen of my million dollar apartment. This is not what my grandmother would have considered progress."
One thing is clear in the deadbolt dustup on the Brownstoner.com forum: Landlords only have to provide a "working" lock. Anything beyond that, to quote one comment, "including window gates, alarms, killer attack dogs" and the deadbolt installed by the tenant who started the thread, is the renter's responsibility.
Before you buy or rent an apartment with exposed brick walls, there are a few things you might want to know, according to commenters on apartmenttherapy.com.
Buying into a micro-mini building (say, 7 units or less) isn't for everyone--particularly those without a personal rainy day fund and lots of spare time, according to a thread on StreetEasy.com.
You might think that landlords would welcome a tenant who offers to pay a year's rent in advance, but you would be wrong. Apparently, it simply looks suspicious.
Affordable art is becoming a crowded Internet field these days. The latest entry, and among DailyCandy's recent selections, is Artspace.com, an online source for contemporary works.
