current rents in PS, WT

Categories: Renters

Rents are dropping Brooklyn, according to all indications. So what can my family expect to pay –we want to rent, not buy –when we return to the beloved borough after a self-imposed exile in the ‘burbs? We need two bedrooms in a pet-friendly building in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, South Slope. We lived in Prospect Heights for years and know these areas well.

We’ve been monitoring craigslist and the NYT Web pages. How realistic and complete a picture of rents do they present?

We should be, if I do say so myself, ideal tenants: two people well over 40 with very good, long-standing jobs, good credit, easy-going, friendly, helpful, non-smoking –plus our elementary-school daughter, plus dogs. Our dogs (and our daughter!) are good, trained, funny, sweet, gentle, etc. We want to pay less than $2000 — possible?

By cpchkp | 03/12/2009 8:51 PM