New York City is currently offering more Airbnbs than apartment rentals, and finding a decent place to live in the city can be more difficult than it used to be due to high rental prices.
In recent months, New York has had the largest rent increases in decades, and this trend does not seem to stop in the near future.
Due to the difference Between high demand and low availability, some New Yorkers looking for an apartment to live are currently finding only expensive units regardless of size.
A video that recently went viral on TikTok shows a New York apartment that is supposedly priced at $4,000 dollars a month, even though it didn’t seem nearly worth what they were asking for.
And it is that the door cannot even be opened completely, since, if one tries to open it, it collides with the stove in the apartment that blocks the door when it is barely half open.
“I work for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and I am almost sure that there are some violations of the housing code in that apartment”, said a person in the comments section.
The girl who recorded the video also showed that the window that the apartment has faces a dumpster and a brick wall.
Although the high price could be due to the fact that the apartment has several rooms, is well located or has some other attractive factor – something that the creator of the video did not specify – certainly It is alarming to see it and know how much is being asked for it, which is why it sparked a whole discussion on the social network about how much an apartment in New York should really be worth.
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