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  Definitions you need to know:
                                             
  • Cozy = 200 square feet
  • Skyline View = Tar-papered rooftops.
  • Carpeted Floors = Uneven former wood floors with new carpet on top of it: Home Depot in-stock $5.97 per square yard -- how long do you think it will last?
  • Charming = 400 square feet
  • Tile Sink = Also known as TILE SINK!. A little teeny tiny counter with a little teeny tiny sink nested into it -- non-functional, but hey, it's TILE!
  • Spacious = 600 square feet.
  • Spacious! = 650 square feet.
  • Sunny = One hour and 12 minutes of late afternoon summer sun, usually 5:27-6:39. No sun October-May.
  • Sunny! = Two hours and 24 minutes of late afternoon summer sun, usually 4:17-6:41. No sun October-May.
  • High Ceilings = Too high to be painted or dusted. OR, you are in a basement where the windows are 12 feet up level with the ground.

    • Got any other definitions you'd like to add? email me.

    The rudest people I've encountered so far are the rental agency people. Everybody over at RentTech needs to find something they enjoy doing for a living and not take their frustrations out on their customers.

    The most smug are the real estate/rental agents. They deliver news with a smile on their lips, "Yes, that's a cozy one bedroom, recently painted and it's $1600 per month and a deposit of $3200 for a move in of $4800.00." With a perfect credit report. You were late with the garbage bill in December of 1982? Well, we can work something out, but it will take double the deposit. That's not too bad at $6400.00 plus the first month's rent is 8000.00. You don't? Do you know someone you can borrow it from?

    Landlords have not yet been able to look me in the eye. I've actually met with very few owners, just agents. Except for the Chinese. They obviously have no need for agents.

    Everyone feels weird about the whole thing. I had a "manager" offer me a 1 bedroom dungeon for $1295.00 per month. The place was a tomb. Very small, very uncomfortable, the "parquet" pieces were coming up all over and no light came in through the window. Everyone is trying to act like everything's OK, but they're all on the edge of hysteria. Can you imagine upping your income from $800 to $1350/month in the flick of a tenant?

    HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS? Talk to me! If I get enough responses, I'll start a bulletin board and then a chat room.

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