Feb 17th 2011 5:30PM
Affordable rentals are becoming harder to come by as people decide against buying a home in the current distressed market. Well, here's an option you may not have thought of: Rent a room in a mansion. Alyssa Abkowitz of SmartMoney reports on this emerging trend that has average renters curling up in the lap of... Continue Reading »
Feb 4th 2011 12:00PM
One day, Tanya Alison got an urgent phone call from a friend in need of an apartment rental. "She was moving here with a husband, a dog and two cats in less than two weeks," Alison explains from her Brooklyn apartment. "She was flying in for twenty-four hours and intended to use the ones in which she wasn't asleep... Continue Reading »
Oct 5th 2010 1:03PM
Dear Apartment Guru, My roommate and I are on a lease until April 2011. He got a new position and wants me to sign a letter of intent to vacate so that he may move 80 miles away. He will pay the fee to do this. My problem is that I cannot live by myself and I want to know what legal rights I have. I do not make enough to... Continue Reading »
Sep 29th 2010 5:02PM
Anyone who's ever gone hunting for an affordable apartment in New York City knows it's about as fun as dental work -- without the anesthesia. So it may come as some surprise that the New York metropolitan area rents are not the highest in the U.S. New York didn't even make the top five, according to the U.S. Census... Continue Reading »
Jun 29th 2010 12:43AM
After moving into his rental apartment in San Francisco, Joshua Nicholas found out the hard way that checking out his apartment manager was just as important as checking out the neighbors. Nicholas expected thin walls and ceilings, but soon after moving into his ground-floor rental apartment, he found that the woman... Continue Reading »
