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At least their downside risk is low compared to most other new yorkers.
B.A.C.A.H.
2009 Dec 8, 11:10am
I think itsa gimmic ploy for reality TV money like the Balloon Boy or the uninvited White House guests.
4X
2009 Dec 8, 11:11am
Wow!!!!!..........the fever has spead across NYC. That place is the size of my kids bedroom.
As TROUT would say....there are "sheeple" everywhere.
4X
2009 Dec 8, 11:12am
At least their downside risk is low compared to most other new yorkers.
Downside risk? They live in a closet...what is more down than that?
“NYC $150k apartmentâ€
Typical mental thinking of East Coast Liberal which infested California in recent years.
They just think its normal!
zzyzzx
2009 Dec 9, 2:15am
I saw that on the news and I would hope that they stay someplace else on the weekends, or something.
Small, but if you don't spend much time in the house, so be it.
It's like buying a super expensive car if you don't drive anywhere. Or buying a house 3x the size you need, and just paying massive power bills for rooms you never set foot in.
It seems small, but it might be good for a hard working couple. Or a couple who would rather live there, than commute 2 hours into the city every day from some place that is much larger, but chews into your available free time.
A decently standard day: working 8 hours + 1 hour lunch for most, 8 hours of sleep, 1 hour to get up and get ready, 1 hour to get dinner, laundry, bills paid, misc other crap, every day. That is 19 hours accounted for in the day. 5 hours left.
If your commute is 2 hours, you've just chopped off 40% of your free time every day. That is huge.
If they're able to save that 2 hours, and get away with 30 minute commutes, fantastic! 10% vs 40%.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/cozy_crazy_couple_makes_tight_studio_R15ToNFTaJE3c17zkw4efP
From the article:
Zaarath and Christopher Prokop -- and their two cats -- live in the smallest apartment in the city, a 175-square-foot "microstudio" in Morningside Heights the couple bought three months ago for $150,000.
At 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide, it's about as narrow as a subway car and as claustrophobic as a jail cell. But to the Prokops, it's a castle.
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Later in the article it states that the building maintenence fee is $700/mo. I should point out that's more than I paid for my 3/2 house on an acre in the mountains. Location obviously matters.