Where are the best rental deals

just visited a friend at 1520 york - glenwood building, so far they are very happy with it, and great J4 for $3750

that seams like a terible deal, I pay less and am in a better location farther west on 85th, also a glenwood building. Jr4 should go for 3200 net effective at this point

I have a FiDi co-op sublet in a luxury doorman building that I thought would fly at $1650 with no broker fee --

reasonable-size studio, separate kitchen, great closets, dining area. Have gotten very few calls on it --

I would be interested in POLITE comments about whether posters $1650 is still expensive, or just don't want to do co-op paperwork/building app. fees.

ali r.
{downtown broker}

The best deals by far in the city are in the Financial District and many have on site leasing sites that do not charge brokers fees and have 1 or 2 months free incentives.
check out 95 Wall Street (dwell by yoo), 10 Hanover Square, 2 Gold Street.

I am looking for a nice size jr4 with 1.5 bath on upper east or west. (big enough for two) have a nice apt now but to expensive. Management in the building (glenwood) refuses to negotiate and they are way overpriced.

try nybits.com

lots of concessions on the rents. i personally negotiated a 10% for myself and will wait out the apt slaughter.

front_porch,
As someone who recently considered renting in a coop, the problem w/ co-op rentals is that the boards take forever to approve. Most renters dont start looking until 2-4wks from move date and the co-op approval process can take as long or longer than that.

That fact alone probably reduces the pool of potential renters by quite a bit. I may be wrong, but that was my experience w/ the coop rentals I looked at.

Also, I stayed away from co-op and condo rentals because I dont want to rent a place and then get evicted in a year because the owner sold it.

Junkman, assuming you have the time the eviction risc can be contracted out

"just visited a friend at 1520 york - glenwood building, so far they are very happy with it, and great J4 for $3750"

Wow, that is a TERRIBLE price for that location/size. Glenwood typically charges more than market value however, although the specific apartment you saw should be about $2900.

We got a great deal at the Rivergate you may not like the area but we've lived in Murray Hill for years and love it. We pay $3195 for huge jr 4 - almost 1100 sf, 2 full baths, eat in kitchen. We are thrilled. I was almost scared away from people on this board - glad I didn't listen. The apt is great and newly renovated with really nice appliances. Sometimes you have to take a non prime neighborhood to get the apt you want.

ccharley, what's the address for Rivergate? Looking to rent similarly sized apartment and your rent is just at the upper edge of my price range.

The studios at 20 Pine seem like good deals to me, all factors considered (based on my value system [yup]).

NYC it's 401 East 34th St

Here's the floorplan
http://manhattanskyline.com/plansPDFs/Rivergate_S5-32B.pdf
closets are just great too