This Apartment Makes People Leave NYC…
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- This apartment isn’t what most people consider “normal” unless they are from New York City. If you live in New York, you’d be excited to have any this, or any of the apartments shown in this video. In fact they could even be better than what some New Yorker’s have. Would you live in any of these places?
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I love how minimum wage increases have to be phased in to not "burden employers," but rents are allowed to double or triple overnight with zero regard for the burden on tenants.
They don't care about the people.while we send billions to Ukraine to fight a rich man's war
Yep, and asking for a living wage is “communist” in certain political circles.
@@joermnyc Nobody even seems really certain what one is. The numbers can vary pretty widely depending on who's talking.
Well, do you vote Republican? People vote against their own economic interest, then wonder why this happens all the time. “Employers”. Have money because they don’t pay people a living wage, AND they don’t pay taxes. But people vote for this 5h1t.
Assumed there was a NY state regulation that like so many other states. CA has 12 month 10% cap.
marathon showing in this video! fantastic places! and loved the racing with Charles
Watching your videos always makes me feel better about my rent.
Me too-after watching these need a room mate videos, I love my space so much more!
I'm in Ohio....whole house.....can't go there...🙈🙉🙊
True that! LOL
Right? I feel brutal paying $1200 for a 1995 built 4 bdrm
The good thing about those elementary school toilets is they will NEVER get clogged up. Those things can take chrome off a trailer hitch.
My parents in Brooklyn have that toilet. It's aesthetically ugly but they've never had a problem with it as far as I remember in 40 years.
🤣🤣🤣🤣. It flushed my wallet at work couple weeks ago. I cried my eye 👁 balls out.. 😭😭😂😂🤣🤣
Now I want this toilet.. the water saver ones get clogged ALL the time it seems. I don't ever remember toilets getting clogged so much before these water saver toilets.
Cash and Charles showed the best digs near the end.
Mr. Munore has some of the best listings. At a decent price point for New York City.
When I feel broke I watch these videos my place got all these luxury items dishwasher, fridge , oven , microwave , a big yard , a basement and a upstairs a kitchen table and most importantly a sink sprayer !!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Charles Munroe always has the good stuff !
I live in a small starter house of around 1,000 sq ft. I recently decided to try to remodel my pathetic, little kitchen and laundry room combo using IKEA cabinets, so I used their kitchen planner. I found out that the galley kitchen/laundry room is 120 sq ft. Watching your videos on apartments SMALLER than that makes me realize that it might not be so bad after all! Most of these rents are higher than my take home income for a month, and I have 2 college degrees and a job that requires one. NYC is nuts, but it's fun to watch if for no other reason than to see how clever people can be with such small spaces. Honestly, I couldn't afford to rent most of the 90 sq ft lofts.
If you’re living in a 1 or 2 bd house, that’s plenty of space to make it very nice and spacious
But Cash is ONLY showing apartments in high-rent areas. I live out in a less-fancy neighborhood in Queens, a borough of NYC, in a rent-stabilized apartment, and I only pay $1,200 for a very very large studio with a separate kitchen, three closets and plenty of room for my queen-size bed, dining room table, desk, sofa and ottoman.
That's why most apartments have several roommates
@@GALAXIE262 I strongly prefer to live alone - that is why I signed a lease for an apartment way out here in Queens -- lots of space for low rent and only a half-hour train ride to Manhattan.
@@cathynewyork7918 so what is the low rent you are paying in Queens?
Happy Labor Day! You know when Charles Monroe is in the house there's bound to be something good! The 1st apartment was really originally a 1 bedroom & (the 2nd apartment was originally a studio. Guess Cash is listening to some of us about refrigerator door openings needing to be in the correct placement. I'll take any of Charles's places. They're great
changing the refrigerator door swing comment - made my day!
"Free toilet tissue". LOL
Loved the multiple apartments tour; especially the ones that featured Charles Monroe. The bike race was a nice conclusion of the video.
😂😂😂😂 I like Charles so I don't know why I took so much pleasure from your 3 wins today with your bike but you absolutely smoked him again!!!!!! I was laughing out loud as he was pedaling for the win that never materialized. Bravo Cash, bravo.👏👏👏👏👏👏
The renovated $3.5k place looks great and the 1st one Charles showed are my favs...and of course I enjoyed the bike races haha keep it up!
Dont use your combo washer for drying....use for wash and spin dry only then stop the machine...thats what I did and it was faster and easier when you hang. Hope you see this 🙂
Yep. 100%. And if you don't have a great hang drying space, use the bathroom. The vent fan will create enough of a breeze.
Honestly I don't even use the dryer. I lay my stuff out on my bed, ironing board or my laundry basket. Probably been doing it for at least 25 years or more. I love doing it that way. Very rarely do I use the dryer unless I need something right away.
check ikea like stores, they have all kinds of clothes drying racks ... and a real winter advantage is that it will add moisture to the (dry) heating season
I live in the Southeast; that would work during the winter, but during the summer it would never dry and end up moldy.
Hang drying doesn’t kill everything you might want to kill and if you live in NYC you know exactly what I mean
I’d love if you show some reasonably priced NYC apts. like the ones NYers actually live in. I think people will be surprised to see the disparity between NYers living arrangements. Very few born and raised NYers are living in apts like this, and paying these outrageous prices. We lived in a 4 bedroom, kitchen, dining room, and living room. Huge rooms, rents at $1800 in ENY. My cousin lives in Ozone Park, 3 bedroom for $1400, it’s being upped after 10 years to $2500. Sister lives off Pennsylvania Ave in Brooklyn on the 16th floor with beautiful view, $1900 and raising it to $2600 once it’s renovated by new owners. Yes, NY housing is HORRIBLE but majority of NY isn’t living in these $5k+ properties. If they are, they’re renting rooms and living with multiple people. Most of NY isn’t the stereotypical NYer you think of. NY is full of people struggling to get by or overly wealthy families with disposable income and likely they moved into NY during college or after obtaining their degrees and getting hired at a large firm. That’s who the city caters to, and chances are that’s who’s living in these overly priced apartments. Not actual NYers.
S/O to ENY from Canarsie!!
It’s because he isn’t a native New Yorker either..
@@sab1175 Really? I thought I heard him say before he grew up in Manhattan?
Queens still has reasonable priced apartments, near subways/buses👍💙
@@Elochai_ 💪🏽
I like these batch apartment tour videos.
Cash, I don't live ANYWHERE close to you but I love your personality and somehow became addicted to your videos. Charles seems like a very cool dude! If you're ever in da bayou in the southern part of the state of Louisiana, I'd love to give you a tour and feed you (and your wife and adorable child). You look like you need a platter of crawfish or boudin with some Andygator. :)
The apt w the ivy or jungle is not my cup of tea. All I can think of are all the critters living in them getting into my apt! Love the 16th floor apt. It was spacious.
Charles' apartments are always so nice!
charles is the man for the best high end places.
What nobody discusses is that these apartments generally have two-year leases. After 2 years the price will go up considerably. Then two years later...
Would live to see what's on offer for seniors. And I don't mean college...lol.
the "senior" apartments are just as bad in pricing & small like they are across the entire USA.....I call them "senior shoe boxes" because they are usually 1/2 the size of a normal ( whatever that is) apartment for working people..They are more like dorm rooms
Charles always has the best apartments!!!!
Thank you for sharing your tour here of different apartments. I think number one apartment for me in your listing is the one with the washer/dryer (3:29 in your timing) in that kind of long kitchen area. That was hands down with that aspect of doing the wash and drying the apartment. And the second apartment at (5:29 timing) has a doorman/concierge desk and is 16 floors up with a view...By the way, I like the concierge/doorman staff in my present building here in Chicago! Lol!! But anyway, there is a nice view from the 16th floor of this apartment. Finally, you made laugh with you and Charles racing. LOL Hahaha Crazy guys!!
Great video Cash. I love the commentary, your humor is the best. I would watch everyday just for that.
I feel Cash is a better UA-camr, but Charles always comes up with better appartments haaa! Great combo!
I don’t understand how a regular family with regular jobs can find a place to live in NY city?
That's what they want the common family not to be able to afford the city they want us out
@@bigsmitty867 Yes. That Hitlerette Holchum wants only a specific type people living in NY. No families, no elderly, no one from specific states. She literally said so. If you don't align with her values, you can go to hell...she don't want you. She's a Nazi crackpot.
You don't want to raise kids in that city anyway.
I love when you 2 do videos,
throw in a triple crown street race...yasss!
I find with rising prices I still have the dream.
Thank you for making such great videos~
Good afternoon Cash. Happy Labor day to you and your beautiful family. You and Charles racing makes me laugh every time.
I was watching a movie on Netflix called an imperfect murder, and I could tell that it took place in Manhattan because of all the videos you post! I recognize the entire area, and I’ve never even been there! LMAO thank you for the videos you post! The one place I have never been and always wanted to go, you make me feel like I have been there!
@@iamsunnysideup7115 I won’t ever get to go, but thank you for saying that. It makes it easier on me ❤️✨
Happy Labor Day All!
My second video was as a new subscriber and if I had to choose an apartment I would prefer the $4750 one, for one person the $3295 one. Great videos
The one bedroom that was super small because they put that partition… like just keep it as a studio. Now you can even fit things it either room like you would want
yep hate when they split apts. like that...it is just greed of the property mgmt. so they can get more money
The bike race at the end? 😄I watch this channel not because I'm looking for a rental in NYC, but because of the UA-camr. Cash shows why a YT account depends on the likeability of the video maker, not just a channel's subject or topic. As for NYC's high prices and often dismal assembly-line housing? For one thing, the city is very old. NYC for over 150 yrs has also been where so many people have chosen to call home, that, as similar to a Sao Paulo, Brazil or some maze-like city in China, it naturally ends up claustrophobic. Or just the opposite of a pleasant, resort-type place.
Thanks for sticking around for the bike race. Charles has a new bike on the way
@@CashJordan I live in Chester, Cheshire in the UK. I may never get to travel to NYC or even America due to limited budget(even though I have a Grandson there) but I am seeing New York vicariously through your UA-cam. Hope everything is going well with your wife and Violet, when is the baby due?🤗
@@CashJordan probably because you keep winner the races. Lol
@@CashJordan Cash, I think the bike race was dangerous and irresponsible in the city like that. Immature.
Ken’s rating: Too many to comment on! These are the most reasonable NYC rents that we’ve seen in a while! I usually don’t look at any comments until I post my own, but I cheated and looked at one. And it said there are cheaper rents in NYC. How about that? The one for $4,750 is the one for me, but it still was a little high. Yes, in Ohio we would call this a one bedroom with den. It’s because the den doesn’t have a closet. But, there are so many apts in NYC with no closets in the bedrooms. It goes back to European styles. In Europe you don’t have little rooms called closets. They have free standing armoires. I think it goes back to Queen Victoria or Louis XIV.
I love the dishwashers directly under the sink!
I’m glad you pointed out the “converter kit” to switch the refrigerator door opening.
OH! And NO MORE drag racing down the streets of NYC! I had to shield my eyes. Consider this a friendly warning. Next time I see this I’m calling NYPD. 🙀🙀🙀. And that goes for Charles, too! 😀😉😀
OH! I forgot to comment on the fallout shelter sign! I remember when they were put up new. It must have been around 1962. It was right before or after we thought we’d be nuked by the Russians with bombs they were installing on Cuba. That dirt on the sign…. That must be what my insides look like. 😱😱😱
Yes, it is drag racing! Whether it’s in cars, bikes, pogo sticks or high heel shoes. 🫣🫣🫣
The no closets goes back to closet taxes. There were also window taxes. They taxed people to death in Britain.
Stop teasing us. The next time you and Charles say you're gonna race, we wanna see a race! 😄🚴🚴♂
my childhood bedroom in the UK was a box room on the corner of the upper floor, a little over 6x10, so any bedroom bigger than that feels like a mansion to me
Maybe explain about sloping roof, small window, no storage.
Looking at these apartments, some of which are OK, it seems that you need to be making over $60/hour to have a one-bedroom unit in Manhattan. Most of us Common Folk need not apply. You either have to share with others or live elsewhere.
I liked all these apartments 👍🏻 I agree with your standards Cash , that was definitely a bedroom , great child’s room .
Leaving the plastic on appliances is also my pet peeve, as a plumber I’m taking the plastic off on the stove and dishwasher when I install them
as a "plumber" explain to me how those dishwashers with the sink right on the TOP of them work? where the heck does the drain go for the sink? horizontally?. is there a trap under neath or not?..it's just plain weird seeing that....looks like backup problems to me
I love when plumbers or delivery people take the plastic off, because it is such an annoying job to take off. There must be a knack to it.
@@thecatatemyhomework it’s a pain in the ass to take off but satisfying in an ocd way
I agree. It’s so annoying when someone leaves the tape on if they are already using it! 😁
Just one thing to say about the frosted bathroom window…..drones! My friend who is very pretty heard something while she was dressing and turned around and found herself staring at a drone hovering outside her window 😳🤨
WTF?! where did that happen?
@@denverdubois5835 Gilroy California. In a 4 story apartment building.
Mmph... nix the first 3. But, Charles once again shows who is in charge! I like all of the last 5 units. Nice spaces and nicely priced given this market. While I liked the $2900/month unit those fake fireplaces (character) would be hard to pass over. Therefore the $3100/month (the last apartment ) would be my winner!
Love you guys together!!
Gentrification and landlord greed is killing the rental market for regular New Yorkers. BedStuy is a perfect example 🇬🇧
My boy Charles is out for revenge and I love it 😂
Leave it to Charles to find the best apartment 😊 this man is unstoppable
Such a fun easy to watch videos with awesome editing. Even though I'll probably will never rent in NY but watching videos is fun
I know people love living in the city and for the jobs they have it’s a necessity to be there but the rents are outrageous and I just couldn’t do it. I grew up an hour north of the city and I packed up my stuff a year and a half ago moved south and now my monthly bills come to a total of about a grand and that’s including all my utilities. I’m 3 miles from the ocean and I could not be happier. All I have to do is drive a couple miles and everything I could want is there.
I live in NYC, and all I have to do is walk a couple blocks and everything I could want is there.
where in the south?
@@cathynewyork7918 Not worth the loss of quality of life.
@@doe729 I don't agree with your statement that it is not worth the loss of quality of life. it IS worth it, to me, to live in New York City. I had more living space when I lived in Pasadena, California, and a car, but I love love love living here in New York City and will never go back to California. I love NYC!!!
I really prefer the kitchens in a separate room, even if they're tiny. A little bit of mess or dirty dishes in the kitchen don't impact the rest of the space that way ...
THE ENDING OF THE VIDEO WAS AMAZING 😂😂😂
Charles is the man!!!
I love watching these videos to remind myself why I sure as hell am not moving back to NYC
You and Charles PLEASE be careful in the city!!!!!!!!!!!!! On your bikes mainly!!
I don't know... you hit the 3000+ for 1-bedroom level, everything should be perfect. Instead these seem like the same old apartments with a thin veneer of upgrades, and a much higher price tag.
yep.."lipstick on pigs"
No way I’m splitting rent with 4 ppl for this $5k apt.
Sure, it's all fun & games until someone has a kid!
Hello cash Happy labor day to you and your family love the video you put out like some of the apartments tours also looking myself you made my day today funny keep it going
What is the average wage in NYC that people can actually afford to live in any of these places, I thought Boston was expensive, but holy shlt nyc has it beat
No way. You gotta leave the plastic sticker covers on the appliances as long as possible. It keeps it looking clean and scratch free for much longer. I mean, it will come off at some point. And boom! Looks brand new when it does. Lots of great places this time
All apartments are relevant loving seeing these small space solutions. Keep ‘em coming
I don’t know why I love your videos… I own a 2200 square-foot home in Virginia Beach Virginia and I pay under $1500 a month… But the way that you present all the apartments makes me want to go and get one!!! I really love the way you guys do this!
Happy Labor Day Cash! Thanks for all the videos, I look forward to every day!
Surprisingly with that many apartments, nothing was truly horrifying in the bunch. 2 things I miss in Cash's videos lately-no subway journey to various locations and not a mere mention of shrines to our gods when there's a perfect spot for one.
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He's got everything to live for...I'm glad he's not taking the NY subway. I'd like him to live.
And hardly any recent comments about sink sprayers. 😄
Your videos ARE fun, Cash!
Thanks.
Well, it seems humankind never learns the lesson. This is a real-estate bubble, rental or purchase, and at some point in time it will burst.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on this madness.
0:40 The only benefit about these toilets is that i have never seen one clog in a residential. However, the flushing sound will wake up everyone in the middle of the night
0:47 Someone forgot to level the feet on the fridge and its going to be annoying real fast when opening that door to the microwave due to the door orientation but to be fair ive never seen a microwave open the other way.
2:00 tiny tiny tiny!
2:30 that shower door is a feature. the only downside about this bathroom is the toilet.
2:35 $2.200 to $3,500
3:58 He gets it🤣! Lets see if the landlord understands door orientation in a kitchen makes a huge difference as well because many dont.
4:30 i like the tile work. thats one thing i can never do correct and i applaud anyone who can do a good tile job.
4:58 That apartment is worth it. The kitcken alone is worth it.
6:42 expensive door and a PITA to install too. I love it!
7:08 that would be me with a 52X zoom PTZ camera connected to a 80" TV getting a live show in their bathroom. 😈
Expensive apartments. but beside the choppe dup ones i can understand why the price tag. Only issue will be when that rent increase comes will they be able to pay it as raises are abysmal when compared to the cost of living in NYC which is why so many people are of government assistance programs or subsidized living programs here.
My friends studio apt in nyc went from 2100 to 3400 in 2 years She has to leave She cant afford it Its sad.
it's insane & it is happening across the entire USA......rents are out of control
This is happening all over NYC for units that are not rent-stabilized. It is a problem in many other parts of the country but seems mor extreme in NYC because it was already extremely expensive and for other reasons.
Lol I now consider it a feature if appliances and shower doors can fully open 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
I actually liked the cheapest one the best. All were nice, though.
All of these apartments were so high in price. You would would have to make at least 15,000 a month to live there and not the greatest. But someone is doing it all over The city. I swear you and Charles are like 2 boys on those bikes. He needs a faster one. Loved the video love that I can comment on a place where I won't live at. But cash you are great at your job. See ya
All modern apartment bathrooms have frosted glass and hallway windows have wired glass in NYC!!💙
I like the one on the 16th floor. I just wish I know the address so that I can check it on the map and its neighborhood.
Update: I did some "intensive" Google search. So yeah, I got the exact location. It's a pretty good neighborhood.
Care to share ? :)
Cash is SO good at this. Fabulous channel.
I am fascinated by the dishwashers being placed under the sink in these apartments. There must not be a disposal . Or is there and they have it ....no where would they put one?
Most older NYC apartments don't have garbage disposals, because the pipes can't handle the waste. To quote one website: "Garbage disposals have been legal in New York for almost 25 years, but many if not most New York City apartment buildings-particularly prewars-still don’t allow them.
That’s because the older pipes that serve many of the city’s buildings tend to have so much sludge and scaling in their waste lines that the additional ground-up waste produced by a garbage disposal can result in clogs, back-ups, overflows, and property damage."
yah me too........where the hell is the traps on the drains it the dishwasher is right under the sink!? weird!!!
Nice apartments. The first two are the best ones but all in all they were nice apartments. So glad you are wearing a helmet. I was hit on my bike two blocks away years ago and I didn't have a helmet on. I went over the handlebars and hit the sidewalk which temporarily knocked me out. Helmets are a wise investment.
Charles has some really nice apts to show.
glad that one bedroom with the home office wasnt marketed as a 2 bedroom, noticed a lot of landlords would probably call that a 2 bedroom.
Looks like you and Charles had a fun race.
Great tour and research here today on this one, Cash Jordan! 😀
Awesome! your potential seems limitless. I'm fascinated with investing but being a single mother and juggling all these things are quite difficult. How best can I start and what sector to engage in?.
@Bryan wow! do you think you can give me some advice on how to invest in a healthy way as you are doing? Please.
@Bryan Thanks for sharing, just looked up
on google and I'm super impressed with her credentials. I dropped a massage on her webpage and hope she replies soon
Don’t wait until the market skyrocket again then you start biting your fingers wishing you made the decision to invest. bought my third house already, earn on a monthly through passive income and got 4 out of 5 goals, just hope it encourages someone that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! Investing in the financial market is a grand choice I made.
Am not good doing it alone but getting into the market has been my best decision so far in my road to financial independence as it turns out to be lucrative for me and Personally I have multiple streams so I just enable the use of an investment advisor to navigate and secure the returns.
Woah, Though this is the first time i would be reading comments about my financial advisor Ms. Melisa on UA-cam comments and it is quite a memorable insight
If the fridge door hinge side is swapped, the door won't open anymore-- you need about 2-3" clearance for that and there isn't any clearance at all.
They can't swap that fridge door because the wall would prevent it from completely opening.
Agree! Our old kitchen was set up like that, and the door was always an issue.
Love Charles’s apartments, and you should let him win just one race 🤷🏻♀️
11:30 that looks like so much fun! It seems you have the best mode of transportation for NYC.
Cash! Your upload TITLES get my ATTENTION! Excellent way to waste time while drinking my coffee ☕
Not sure why I love these tours. I live in the south, born & raised. Definitely a "concrete jungle"
You remainder over and over why I moved out of NYC 18 years ago. Ha ha. Love your show.
The first time I came to New York I was taken back with the toilet! I was in someone home and it had a toilet like that👀
Best race ever…oh Charles 😊
I love those toilets. Never have to change the innards again!
We're just really, really glad we bought when we did. 2.4 acres, pool, barn, no neighbors behind us. Under 230K.
Yall are having entirely too much fun on those streets
all those decorative fireplaces...perhaps a shrine to your God.
The prices of these apartments are absolutely ridiculous who in their right mind would pay such prices to rent a box. I grew up in the south Bronx low income housing we paid $109 a month rent. Now I live in Texas in the forest for what you pay for one year of renting you can own a huge piece of land with a beautiful home!
But love your videos
Agreed I’m here in Texas and feel like 1100 for one bedroom is wasteful
The last few were reasonable and mostly very nice. I live just outside the city so I'm used to certain prices. When he shows crap apartments for $5,000, yes, I say that's not worth it. But in the $3,000 + range, I didn't think they existed anymore.
I would not rent any of those apts. The rents in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles are ridiculous.
The Tape on the appliance left on makes me mad too. I had to remove them from the one then two apartments parents managed in the same set in Middelton Wisconsin, soon to be a part of Madison in 2025 but with own post office and code as then people would have to drive 45 minutes in good weather to the nearest Postal place taking an hour in bad weather. One of them only had allowed us to update the 1970's stuff with the current owner and the other bought old not working crap of same 1970's models of stuff they had then would and hired a guy to replace the ones that had broken parts to keep them working when getting a new 1990's or even some older late 1980's upgrade would be okay at the time until about end of 2000 when we (parents) moved. Right about the time we moved, the apartment went under the owner of the other front 2 in the same 4 building set and they got old but new appliances from the storeroom display, or they got new dented defects that places could not sell as this type of bargain is what the other apartment manager would find trying to keep within the same few models. No in unit laundry but they had in building laundry you paid quarters with on but were small sized as if for a camp ground where you use quarters not a big commercial laundromat place.
Isn't his bike twice as powerful!? Why you gettin toasted, Charles!? He must have that towing power instead of top speed power lol.
His is a custom build. My guess is it needs a tune.
Drag-racing in Manhattan, lol, you guys are awesome! I liked all the apartments, actually, but those extinct fireplaces were still so full of charm. My favorite moment though was the "Fallout Shelter" sign!
NYC rents and landlords are insane !!! The rent charged for the first 2 apts is rediculouse and insulting.
CHARLES!!
I may be watchin too many of his vids, but the 3rd apartment was a value.
Yes it is
Holy crap you responded, thanx