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1. check streeteasy every day bc new listings go up very frequently
2. go on tours as soon as possible / as frequently as possible
3. send in an application as soon as possible (like ideally on / immediately after the tours)
4. *research the apartment.* make sure itās rent stabilized, check ownership + rent history, sometimes there are landlord / property manager databases that are worth looking into, or you will likely have to move again very soon
thereās a housing crisis in the city rn so if you donāt move quickly enough someone else is going to get the apartment, being the first application in the pile 90% of the time is the only way to get a lease (provided everything else is in order)
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- Streeteasy is pretty much the answer. You need to be checking and refreshing literally 15 times a day! You need to be addicted to your screen.
- Renthop is mostly a scam.
- Iāve heard of Craigslist working for some people?
- You need to make believe you work in sales and call/email/text the brokers shamelessly.
- There are some buildings that never really get listed, but you have to have pretty good social connections to find out about the units.
- Make sure your old lease and your new lease overlap by a day or two, because itās really tough if they donāt.
- Movers are going to cost an arm and a leg. Try to do without if you can.
Sorry for the no good news!!!
Feb 17, 2024
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and if you find apts you like, message the broker and see if they have similar unlisted apts. all my luck has been in applying for apts that aren't even listed yet
May 5, 2024
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I put my blood sweat and tears into this shit for you to complain????? I need a place to LIVE. Tell me you have a cat BEFORE i tour ten apartments. You want to pay less than 1k for rent? DONT LIVE IN LA. Iām going crazy plz help, how do I get a cashiers check
Feb 1, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024