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No wonder no one on here is complaining. Most have stabilized apartments!! So far see very *few* people on here paying *market rate* rents. Those people have no right to complain about housing lotteries when they are benefitting from rent stabilized or rent controlled apartments.
No wonder no one on here is complaining. Most have stabilized apartments!! So far see very *few* people on here paying *market rate* rents. Those people have no right to complain about housing lotteries when they are benefitting from rent stabilized or rent controlled apartments.
From what I have seen lately the lotteries aren't offering better than the *market rate* rents depending on your income and location of lottery.
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No wonder no one on here is complaining. Most have stabilized apartments!!
Ive noticed this forum is a mecca for poor people. So perhaps you should think about mister moneybags? You're snobby in every thread you post in. I've noticed most people here are struggling.
Lot's of life's LOSERS are living in Manhattan rent stabilized apartments. I'm talking about people over 65, but mostly over 70.
They had the opportunity to buy as insiders something like a 2-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side for maybe 75K in the late 70's or even early 80's. But they decided they preferred rent stabilization. Today those apartments could be worth $1.5 million.
How would you feel if you were living in Unit 4D in an unrenovated rent stabilized apartment with the cheapest fridge and stove (the sponsor chooses the appliances, not you) for the last 40 years, while your neighbor in 5D, who purchased the apartment in 1979, has a gorgeous modern apartment that he/she renovated and is worth $1.5M? And likely with no mortgage.
And your rent in 4D is not that much lower that the monthly maintenance the coop owner in 5D pays.
Has to kill you. And there are thousands of people like this who are stuck in their rent stabilized apartment, who think about their blown opportunity everyday.
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Lot's of life's LOSERS are living in Manhattan rent stabilized apartments. I'm talking about people over 65, but mostly over 70.
Wow. Newsflash: we ALL grow old!
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