So after nearly two weeks of a full time job of looking for a new apartment, I believe I have found one. Well, I have found one. I am keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well with the lease signing. I am approved. I just need for nothing to go awry between now and lease signing.
For anyone who has ever looked for an apartment in NY has been through the frenzy of looking. Get a broker. Pay an exorbitant broker's fee -- usually 15% of one year's rent. Or look like crazy on Craigslist. Still usually wind up paying a broker's fee. Go see a thousand crappy apartments. Find one. Oops. Apartment is gone in a flash. Find another. Oops. They don't like the way you look. Find another one. Oops. There is something in your credit history they don't like, like you missed a credit card payment 21 years ago. Then you finally find one, you get approved and you wait to sign the lease. Hopefully, nothing weird will happen until then.
All that being said, I love "my" new apartment. It is smaller than my current apartment, but in a wonderful neighborhood, the West Village. Fingers crossed. . .
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