How is it to rent a room in New York City?|106850

Many people tell me that u get what u pay for. They also tell me u live in a small room infested with rats _ roaches, as a result of them being cheap, _ that it_s a scam. Is this true? I_m moving there before the end of this month.

Please give me phone #_s and adresses of some legitimate places to live in the 5 boroughs area. All help is appreciated. Thanks. Also, tell me your personal experience with renting a room in NYC.

Listen up, they are not lying to you. I lived in New York City and in all the boroughs all my life, then moved to Florida. Make sure you have an excellent job with an excellent salary! Manhattan, is the most expensive place to live! and tremendous in size and locations!

To rent an apartment in New York State in general, is not the same if you are renting outside the state. You have to know where to go, because it has it_s good and bad area_s. And the bad area_s are no joke!

You have to know, and I have to stress (know) exactly where you want to move to. Each borough is extremely different than the next!! Manhattan, lower east, mid-town, upper east, will run you at least $1000.00 or more for just a box to live in, no furnishings, AC, or room to room carpeting. All you get if you_re lucky is a refrigerator, stove with an oven. (make sure it works)..because they will not tell you if it doesn_t..trust me on that!

Most of the apartment ads run straight through the Times, or NY Post, the rest of the building apartments, you have to go through the Housing Authority located on 350 Broadway. (Good luck with that), those jokers take forever to get in touch with you, plus they place you on a long waiting list! Don_t go that route!

The brownstones, run about $1000 to $2000 per month, you have to contact each individual landlord that own_s their brownstones or a real estate agency that handles their inquires.

Check out some of the new housing developments and see how to get an apartment through them. New York is a very hard place to get an apartment, not unless you have BANK, and can throw the cash out to the land lord and pay for your apartment straight out.

Staten Island, you need to commute by ferry or the tran, the apartments there are run through housing, but for independent apartments, check the news papers! or their online ads, ask questions too!! Because if you don_t ask, they won_t tell!!

Queens is about 45 minuets to an hour, depending on your transportation. Lots of brownstones, and home rentals, check out New York Apartment listings in the New York Times section of the classified ads.

The Bronx, depending on where you go, the south bronx, you might want to avoid, try the area of white plains or the Grand Concourse area! And City Island, it is nice there and away from the boroughs!

Prices there vary..$800.00 to $1000.00 per month, per one room/ full bath/ kitchen/ dinning and living room combined. The number 4, and 6 trains take you from downtown manhattan all the way up to the east side of manhattan and straight up to the Bronx and white plains area. the tokens are $2.00 each way, coming and going.

Brooklyn, wow! there_s Prospect Park, Park Slope, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Sheeps Head bay, Carnarsie, Flat lands, cozine, Lafayette, Pink Houses, Cypress Hills, Lefferds Blvd area, and the list goes on...each area is totally different depending on cultures, and what you are looking for .

The cheaper apartements are in the (WORST and DANGEROUS) parts of New York City. So, if I were you, I would really, truely,consider where I would reside. and one month, in my opinion is not enough time!! Do you know anyone in newyork city?

If not, you may have to blend in real fast with the people. New Yorker_s can spot an outsider faster that you can blink an eye! try not to stick out like a sore thumb (figure of speech)..you will be easily taken advantage of. There are lots of carn artists too, so be careful who you choose to have as associates, I say associates because you will just be arriving and have not been there long enough to consider someone there your friend.

Just don_t fall asleep on your game, find out all of your questions before you head out to the city that never sleeps, and I mean that literally! You can_t be weak in that State, keep your guard up and don_t speak to strangers, say good morning and see what happens!!

Get all you need to know before you go, contact realtors over the phone and ask everything you can possibly think of when you talk to them. And READ ALL FINE PRINT ON YOUR LEASE! Make sure you agree with what it says, including if pipes do not heat up during the winters, because chica, it gets cold up in the NYC!

Good Luck, not trying to scare you, just giving you the heads up on the boroughs...

well your going to love this one being a rental agent in new york i have some good and bad news it is very expensive to aquire a place in new york i would prefer to live on upper levels to avoid the rat and raoch problem but it is also there to depends on where you live and the building you live in my bro used to live in washington hghts and didnt have any problems now he lives in greenwich village where the is a problem he has a cat know the smll of a cat will usually fear them away but remember these are ny rats that really dont care about anything if you are going to rent your own place the rent usually about 2,000 and up first and last rent pluss a 15% of yearly rent for broker fee so you could be looking to spend about 6,000 and up depends on where you live but try to find a nice looking building with doorman they are very nice people and will tell youn alot good luck youll love it have fun there

best you have 2 or 3 jobs
try to find a place outside the city and take a train