[quote author=Puck]The rent cost in Manhattan has been dropping. There was a noticeable lack of people moving into the city shortly after the 08 crash. Property value in general has fallen substantially but there are not shortage of people buying/renting places. I have a friend who works as a real estate broker and he's doing pretty well. I also have a lot of friends who are able to find employment in various other positions, waiting/bartending/refing sports or teaching classes @ gyms, so resourceful people can still find employment in one area or another.[/quote]
Yeah.
Funny thing is I didn't have a job for two years(
) and finally I just got a job two weeks ago.
The other funny thing is economy is declining and we had to move from the apartment where we lived and we couldn't afford to move, but the landlord and landlady sold the house -or that's what they said- and the beginning of October and we had to move before November 30th.
Then we honestly told our financial situation and that without help we can't do that.
They also told us the buyer payed for them to put us out before December.
Took weeks until they realized if they don't pay for our moving expenses then they can say good-bye to sell the house.
Long story short: finally they paid not what we asked but 60%, we found a new apartment for reasonable price and we did it just last week-end and we have a new, quiet, beautiful and big place for $300 more/month.
The old place was $950/mo the new is $1250/mo.
The old apartment was noisy, creepy and small, three rooms for the three of us.( MC, my son and me)
The new flat is 2 bedroom, quiet, sunny and renewed! :)
So even things getting more tough, I got a job, we moved to a new great place and I'm happy!
