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July 2, 2009
Flood of rental listings
Man has andbody else noticed all the rental listings on Craigslist for Brooklyn? Team bull what do ytou have to say about that? I thought I got a sweet deal on my place with 20 percent off but I think it will be lower when I renew
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Define "flood" and put it into perspective viz a viz last month, 6 months ago and a year ago.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at July 2, 2009 11:04 AM
Dave I am saying if you are like me and you love real estate as a hobby you check the listings on craigslist for areas you would consider for fun. The flood I am talking about is of owner occupied brownstones in the hoods that I like. I am seeing about twice as many avail apts. that fit my criteria and for some reason the surge started about 1 week ago. I am seeing a bunch of rentals that are even in the same house which means huge problems for the owner
Posted by: brickoven at July 2, 2009 11:23 AM
Probably rented to students. Which area???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at July 2, 2009 11:28 AM
Cobble hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights I dont think students are in the picture
Posted by: brickoven at July 2, 2009 11:53 AM
Which nabe? the only listings I see in PS are those sketchy realtors that keep posting the same nice apt every day... I guess for the old bait and switch
Posted by: gemini10 at July 2, 2009 11:53 AM
There are plenty of students in the picture in nabe's like cobble hill and bklyn hts. The law school students make up almost 80 percent of my building in cobble hill. When I lived in the hts 10 years ago there were tons of Pace kids.
Posted by: bowl of dicks at July 2, 2009 12:00 PM
Once again a completely idiotic post by brickover.
Most of those craiglist apartments are posted 10 times by the same broker.
Are you new to real estate?
And yes, students absolutely do live in the areas you mention. The fact that you'd say otherwise shows your ignorance (as if we didn't already have 100 other examples of that from you in all your other posts).
Posted by: 11217 at July 2, 2009 12:10 PM
11217 you need to get anal rejuvenationa after the reaming I have given you. David said he needs you tight again
Posted by: brickoven at July 2, 2009 12:29 PM
im pretty sure both of them are bottoms, bricky.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 2, 2009 12:37 PM
Funny, Brick.
Looks like every person on this thread reamed you for being wrong.
And Rob, guess again.
Posted by: 11217 at July 2, 2009 1:10 PM
Brick, your post makes no sense. How could there be a "bunch" of vacant apartments in the same owner-occupied brownstone? Think about it. Most O-O brownstones will have one, maybe two, and very occasionally three apts. You are probably looking at multiple postings for the same place, or a bait and switch. Use some common sense. Post some links if you want to argue the point further. And better yet, some data. One person's impressionistic view of classified ads is hardly the basis for a substantive discussion of RE trends.
Posted by: slopefarm at July 2, 2009 2:50 PM
usually most of the rents start in Summer months. Something to do with students and freshly recruited after school people moving in.
Posted by: buggytoo at July 2, 2009 4:16 PM
Also how's this theory as another way to look at this data (however flawed it is): in a neighborhood like Cobble Hill and Park Slope if those are young professionals, couples and families renting the apartments perhaps they're buying condos and coops and thus giving up their rentals.
Posted by: traditionalmod at July 3, 2009 10:35 AM
We put a 1BR rental on the market in Carroll Gardens last week. It was gone in one day.
Posted by: bivouac at July 7, 2009 12:11 PM
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