Brooklyn Rental Market More Stable Than Manhattan
Good news from the New York Observer about the Brooklyn residential rental market: Evidently the smaller properties and more diversified owner base is making for smoother sailing than in Manhattan where a few large companies are being forced to offer increasingly sweet incentives: For now, most of Brooklyn’s smaller landlords are living in a world…
Good news from the New York Observer about the Brooklyn residential rental market: Evidently the smaller properties and more diversified owner base is making for smoother sailing than in Manhattan where a few large companies are being forced to offer increasingly sweet incentives:
For now, most of Brooklyn’s smaller landlords are living in a world apart from the rough-and-tumble Manhattan market, where rents are already falling in several neighborhoods, and panicky property owners are slashing rents, sometimes by hundreds of dollars, and offering any incentive they can think of to help put tenants in their units. In Brooklyn: not so much.
Have any brownstone owners had to rent out their garden apartment recently? How did it go?
Brooklyn Rent Check [NY Observer]
God, everyone is so touchy today. I don’t find anything fsrq said to be that far off from the cold hard truth.
Wasder – I am “invested” in speaking honestly, nothing more nothing less, as far as I am personally concerned I hope your Brnstone rental goes up every year no matter what happens in the wider market – but my good wishes for you have no bearing on what is going to happen.
DIBS,
This forum is not your private party, so you don’t have to put up with anyone.
Are you calling me a racist because I choose to live in a brownstone hi-rise?
Hey, Gravis, take a breath, ok? I’m not complaining about Mr. B’s choice of topics here. I’m a big girl, I can choose to read what I want, and not read what I’m not interested in, and I do so daily. Since I don’t see any of your comments here in “our comments”, what’s your problem?
My original point, long, long ago, was to say that renters of new and old apartments are apples and oranges. Some people like one kind, others another. The new availability of new construction condo apartments would have little impact on those who would prefer a brownstone apartment, or even a pre-war apartment building apartment. I don’t see the controversy in that, or the reason for you and fsrq to get your backs up, and hackles raised. You don’t have to agree with me, but there is no reason to act as if I made some wildly heretical statement.
I also don’t see where you have been around long enough to make any kind of statement about the history of this blog, unless you’ve been here forever and recently changed your log in. If that is the case, then you certainly know this blog is intricately tied to brownstones, the neighborhoods they are in, and the lifestyles, problems and joys therein. This is a stupid thing to fight over.
Gravis…I never said that everyone should live in a brownstone. Where in the hell did you pull that one out of??? Please, cite the reference and make sure its in context.
Christ, the loons we must put up with here are are just ridiculous.
And fsrg you didn’t answer my question. What is your investment in disabusing brownstone owners of the rental value of their homes? I am genuinely curious.
“Fsrq, as Wasder said, this is a blog about brownstones. Why even be here if you find them so awful?”
MM – this blog is about all Brooklyn real estate; look at the headlines: brownstones, hi-rises (new construction & old), coops, “horror show” sections. If you don’t like our comments, why don’t you ask Mr. B to ONLY write about brownstones?
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DIBS – I find it unbelievable that when people tell you that not everyone wants to live in a brownstone, you try to convince them otherwise and in a not so mature way.
“I am sorry if I bursted your bubble”—fsrg–you didn’t bursted anything. I am one of the most reasonable, and realistic posters on this board. If you have ever read anything I have written you will see that I am in no way a person living in a bubble and I weigh many sides of many issues. I just find it comical that you are coming on Brownstoner with this particular line of reasoning.
“to argue because you prefer something, everyone else does isn’t really a satisfactory arguement either.” I argued nothing of the sort. I completely acknowledge that there are many people who would prefer living in a luxury hi-rise than a brownstone. They just wouldn’t be too likely to be posting here on Brownstoner. I am happy that everyone has different needs and preferences and certainly have no desire to impose mine on anyone else. But a site called Brownstoner could reasonably be assumed to be a bastion of people who love brownstones, no?