Five Rentals for Roommates (That Are Cheaper Than Co-Living)
The latest lifestyle fad to pick up steam in Brooklyn? Co-living. While you might like the idea of sharing a space with like-minded folks, we wouldn’t fault you for gasping at the price tag. Residents at Common’s first co-living building pay between $1,800 and $1,950 a month. But that doesn’t mean you can’t DIY a co-living situation…
The latest lifestyle fad to pick up steam in Brooklyn? Co-living. While you might like the idea of sharing a space with like-minded folks, we wouldn’t fault you for gasping at the price tag. Residents at Common’s first co-living building pay between $1,800 and $1,950 a month.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t DIY a co-living situation of your own. Brownstoner likes to call it “getting roommates.”
There’s more work, cost, and commitment up front, of course. You will have to swing first, last and deposit or a broker fee and sign a year lease.
Here are five fabulous rentals where a split rent costs less than commercial co-living. Roomies not included.
59 South Portland Avenue #2
Price: $5,995/month or $1,499/month if split four ways
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Corcoran (Ariane Dembs/Erin Mahoney)
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This airy triplex is located right in the middle of the Fort Greene triangle created by Lafayette Avenue, Fulton Street, and Dekalb Avenue. With four bedrooms, two living rooms, and a dining room, you and your roommates will have oodles of space for creative pursuits and deep conversations. You could even bring the passionate discussion outside to the roof deck.
255 Eastern Parkway #D15
Price: $5,600/month or $1,400/month if split four ways
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Tracey McLean)
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In case you need a break from the roomies, this four-bedroom pad is conveniently located just a couple of blocks from the Brooklyn Museum and Prospect Park. Not that you wouldn’t have enough space for yourself — the place is 1,675 square feet. The building also boasts a gilded Art Deco lobby with fancy ceilings.
Chauncey Street
Price: $3,667/month or $917/month if split four ways
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Nadine Adamson/Kelsey Hall)
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Fancy starting a fashionable urban garden to go with your fashionable roommate situation? This four-bed duplex — the cheapest of our pics — also comes with a 20-foot by 30-foot backyard. The garden level living room could even double as an event space.
1119 Carroll Street
Price: $4,800/month or $960/month if split five ways
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Ideal Properties Group (Geneva Farrow/OnYango Williams)
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A five bedroom! In Crown Heights! With exposed brick! Just a few blocks from the Nostrand 2 and 5 stop, this place is in a decent location for rent-splitting roommates who work downtown or in Manhattan.
483 Ocean Parkway
Price: $3,900/month; or $975/month if split four ways
Area: Kensington
Broker: Halstead (Tyson Lewis/Madeline Marvar)
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This four-bedroom duplex in Kensington has some cool views, a private terrace and a window seat. It also has parking available for an additional $295 a month. The listing says it’s also near “the wonderfully hip Cortelyou Road Shopping/dining district.”
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I cannot really imagine that any of these landlords want a group of roommates that barely know each other to rent any of these apartments.
In this day & age it does not wortk unless the group has some kind of committment to each other. It ends up a huge mess of roomate musical chairs, locks on all doors and housekeeping knightmares as well as them not understanding that they all jointly and severaly liable for not only the whole rent but any liabilities as well.
And the idea of one person renting the apartment and then looking for roommates may work for a huge corpoarate landlord, but not these units noted.
This is obviously written by a non landlord and is a very irresponsible article.
Wow, history repeats itself decades later and in different country! I came from the Soviet Union where after the revolution, the Bolshevik government split up the grandiose bourgeoisie mansions to create communal apartments, ask any Soviet who left the country before 1990’s and they will have hoards of stories, even if they did not live in one, their friends did, there were countless movies the featured this set up-basically, everyone in everyone else’s business, neighbors sleeping with each other spouses, very convenient, one does not have to go far, multiple door bells, or, one door bell with instructions on how many times to ring for each tenant. Can’t believe that in the 21st century, in one of the greatest city in the world, people have to resort to this lifestyle.