stevejhx CANNOT COME HERE and WHO SAW WHAT PLACE

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Steve, my current lease runs out the end of July. I will be seeking, ideally, a large one bedroom (preferably with 1.5 baths) for $4000 or less. I am now in 10019 but am flexible on area. Does anything come to mind? I have a little dog.

Thanks.

what? you guys turning Steve into a broker now -:)

Not broker. Residential expert.

stevejhx...you're a superstar!!!

The stevejhx fan club is having its first meeting next week. The new t-shirt collection will be available shortly.

A rock star. Too bad westelle hates me.

I say go to nybits.com. Lots of nice places available.

Thanks.

The wicked witch of the westelle is powerless here.

11201962: in GV it's tough as heck to find any decent 1-bedrooms, but 60 E 12 St is very nice inside (from the outside it looks like someone hit it with an ugly stick) and layouts are sane, condition of apts good, windows very quiet, location is decent if a little noisy. 3 no fees were available last weekend: 14B at $4350; 14C at $4200; and 6F at $4350. Finding decent rentals sucks I recently learned, but with a ridiculous amount of effort and frustration, it is possible.

Thank you, kw.

If you are interested in those 60 E 12 St apts., the broker is Jeffrey Stockwell or Robert Faust of Stribling. I also strongly suggest walking into rental buildings and asking the doormen how to contact the managing agents and asking them about availability. As I posted elsewhere, that's what panned out for me.

I know not everyone can pay a broker's fee up front (I live here too) but it seems crazy to me to pay over $4k a month to go for an apartment like 60 E. 12th where the owner is paying a fee, instead of paying the $3K market rate to get the same apartment. The fee amortizes itself back in less than six months!

For example, we've got a one-bedroom in Chadwin House, which is roughly the same size and is actually in Greenwich Village, for $3K. If you've got the money to do the fee upfront, that works out cheaper.

However, neither of these two buildings provide the 1.5 baths that were requested. The closest thing to that is 67 East 11th, which is a co-op sublet, so you'd have to qualify, and it's $4,100 a month, but you get a little balcony. Broker is Roland Levin of Elliman. But that's no pets.

Finding something like that a little further West that will take a dog is possible, but it's going to be a little more expensive or it's going to be a little flawed.

If the requester is willing to stay in midtown, however, there's a lot that matches the criteria: sublets in the Element, the Link, etc.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

Ali R.: I'm not sure I follow you and what you claim is available to rent for $3000. First, Chadwin House which you cite is not "actually in GV"--it is in Chelsea on 7th Ave in the teens. It is only like 60 E 12 insofar as it is ugly. In fact, Chadwin House probably the single ugliest co-op in Chelsea with it's neo-Beirut Bunker inspired design. It has no views and sits low on an extremely heavily traficked section of the avenue (140 Seventh). It's nasty. I'm not sure what you have listed there for $3000 since it isn't on Streeteasy and I can't find it on your Elliman's website, but at least the E 12 St. units I mentioned were high, enjoyed spectacular light and views and once inside the ugly building, it was very nicely appointed in a great area. The apartments were also on the large side for one-bedrooms. I could be wrong, but I saw nothing for $3000 that was even remotely acceptable in a month of looking at rentals in GV. In addition, pointing to a co-op rental is not a fair comparison since you get thrown out after 1 or 2 years and have to start the process all over again--it's part of what bites about renting someone else's co-op. You also often have to pay substantial application fees to the co-op and go through the hassle of a board interview. I don't think you are right here.

kylewest--ali r works at dg neary, not at elliman. The dgneary website does indeed have some chadwin house rentals listed. That having been said, I agree with all points of your post.

kylewest--actually one other thing is that I believe that 140 7th avenue is a condo.

thnx nyg--my bad

Ok, I will give you that 18th and 7th should be Chelsea instead of Greenwich Village -- but I don't think it's insane to compare a building built in 1962 to a building built in 1963 -- if we can't comp postwars of roughly the same era, it's tough to comp anything.

I'm sorry you think Chadwin House is ugly, but the apartment sizes are roughly the same. I personally would rather live on 7th than on 4th, but as my dad used to say, that's what makes horse races.

And no, I don't work for Elliman. I threw in that Elliman listing because I thought it was relevant to the discussion.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

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300 Mercer has decent size 1 brs and they allow dogs. They make you use a broker even if you walk in on your own - not sure if this has changed but this happened to us in 2002. Probably negotiable now.

I used to live in 277 West 10th, a rental building,in the West Village, and liked my 2 br apartment, but it was 15 years ago and I was less judgmental. Great area then and now. They have 6 1-brs in the $3,000s available right now.

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/building/277-west-10-street-manhattan

Damn, my memory is going, I lived at 341 west 11th, not 277.

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/building/341-west-11-street-manhattan

Nothing listed but there must be turnover. I would suggest calling the managing agent and see what they have.

I forgot, what is the name of that pill to help your memory?

Mercer has changed. Two No Fees from me:

http://www.theburkhardtgroup.com/Horatio-a76777.html Actually a $1000 dollard gift card

http://www.theburkhardtgroup.com/Upper-Westside-a77090.html

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