Apartment leasing!

So you are an young hip adult and you just leased your first apartment! ME TOO GIRL

Are you excited?

Do you feel sick?

Do you hate your roommates? 

ME TOO GIRL

No just kidding I'm rooming with some of my best gal pals. 

Want to see my apartment? Okay cool! Here it is!

Here's my bathroom:

My dining room:

And my living room:

Expect not. 

I live in Manhattan.

As a student. 

So introducing this weeks blog post title: 

Realty checking and lowering your standards: Manhattan living 

When I first started looking for apartments I was like woah. Things cost money.

Most real estate in New York City is around $4,000 a month at cheapest. So my plan of paying $500 and living with two people, slowly died in front of me. 

My friends and I decided to start talking to brokers and see if we could use them to get to an apartment. When she got us one at 100 John Street, we were all super pumped! 

But then she sent us her fee of around 6,000 dollars just for helping us get the apartment! 

DO NOT DO THIS

Just go into a leasing office and ask if they have any available apartments, no fee no hassle. 

My roommates and I found a very cute apartment on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan and we love it. I pay 740 a month to share a master bedroom and IT IS AWESOME. 

Heres my roof view from the back. It is a little difficult to see but you can make out the Brooklyn Bridge! The other side shows the Freedom Tower!

Here's my classy front door.

My living room!

And finally my bedroom!

I love my new apartment, it's no 90 million dollar view but it's perfect for us! 

So be realistic, lower your standards AND GO LEASE AN APARTMENT