Rental Dementia: Pilfering the Listing

Written by Brian Carter on April 25, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

It was a shabby little co-op in the West Village, and I had weaseled my way into a few pictures and a couple of open houses. Sale listings don’t come easy to a rental agent, and this one hadn’t exactly fallen in my lap. An old friend of mine had years ago rented in the
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Give ‘Em Hell, Mr. Vonnegut

Written by Avery Andon on April 25, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

I first met Kurt Vonnegut in May of 2005. I had been dating his youngest daughter, Lily, for several months, and she seemed eager to introduce me to her parents. So, after some deliberation at the Vonnegut’s Eastside townhouse, we decided on Serafina’s Madison Avenue location. Mr. Vonnegut expressed his willingness to troop the five
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Rental Dementia: Sublets: Legal or Otherwise

Written by Brian Carter on April 18, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

The A train was killing me, and I was spending most nights at my girlfriend’s place anyway. My rent was dirt cheap, and the neighborhood was great, but after six good years in Washington Heights, I was ready for a change. I knew people in Jersey with a shorter commute and better restaurants. If peace
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Rental Dementia: How Long You Lived Here?

Written by Brian Carter on April 11, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Along West 187th Street there used to be a tiny closet-sized kitchen where you could buy a whole roasted chicken through a small storefront window. The chicken window closed to make room for the hip new restaurant. It was meant to be “downtown uptown,” with its lounge-style lighting, red velvet couches and imported world music.
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Endgame

Written by Chris Ruen on April 4, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Bushwick In Spirit
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Rental Dementia: Invasive Applications

Written by Brian Carter on April 4, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Certain assumptions can be helpful in saving time, so I skipped the formality of verifying his income. Who would have guessed a plastic surgeon would have any trouble qualifying for a $3,000-a-month rental? A good, thorough agent pre-qualifies every potential client, making certain that they have the income and, more importantly, can prove it on
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Rental Dementia: The Myth of the Selfless Agent

Written by Brian Carter on March 21, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

A very good friend of mine just returned from Africa—Uganda to be precise. Normally a nomad bartender in some of Manhattan’s hipper night spots, we were all a little surprised, even mildly worried, when he decided to run off and work in a malaria clinic for three months. It seemed random and out of the
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Rental Dementia: The Irish and The Hawaiian

Written by Brian Carter on March 21, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

Did you hear the one about the three Irish guys who wanted to buy a bar and the Jewish surfer dude who wanted to sell one? I’ll cut straight to the punch line as the joke takes awhile. (A few months of my life.) The real estate agent gets screwed in the end. The three
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Rental Dementia: No Expectations

Written by Brian Carter on March 14, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

My last appointment of the day turned out to be a big jovial Irishman who loved to talk. As he went through what seemed his entire history, I stood in the increasingly dark and empty apartment, looking out of the large windows. Three stories below, the clock-watchers were already hurrying home. It was just after
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Rental Dementia: The Last One Bedroom in Dumbo

Written by Brian Carter on March 7, 2007. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

New construction condos were once again flying into contract, and if I didn’t get my shit together, another frothy wave of commission checks would pass, while I splashed around in the flat bath water of the rental market. I was still reconfiguring a New Years resolution when the phones returned to ringing and the emails
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