Archive
September 2010
August 2010
- How To Deal With Bad Landlords
- Furnishing With Cheap and Free Finds
- Blinded by Light or Don’t Fall for Building’s Amenities
- How To Personalize Your Pad When You Can’t Paint
- Sarah Says Neighbors Are Friends Not Foes
- Shakiera Moves Off-Campus in Memphis
- Living with Shared Kitchen
- For the Love of God Pick a Roommate You Will Get Along With
- Mercedes Finds Her Dream Off-Campus Apartment
- What Elyse Learned from Her First Apartment Hunt
- Mail Call: How Much Should Your Rent Be Increased Yearly?
- Introducing Kate, Our New Guest Blogger
July 2010
- Introducing Elyse, Our New Guest Blogger
- How to Negotiate in the Current Rental Market? Cautiously!
- Add a Tool Kit to Your Apartment Essentials
- Top 50 U.S. Cities for Renters
- Fireworks and Renter’s Insurance
June 2010
- Apartment Hunting Is Like Dating: Trust Your Instincts
- Furnish Your Apartment At A Stoop Sale
- First Apartment Bloggers Wanted!
- Get Going – Rents Are Moving Up!
- Checking Out Your (Future) Neighborhood
- Checking Out That Rental — Be An Ace Scout!
May 2010
- When Should You Use A Broker to Find An Apartment
- Become a Craigslist Pro to Score Your First Apartment
- Mastering the First Apartment Hunt
- The First Two Things to Decide Before You Start Your Apartment Hunt
April 2010
- NY Mag’s Top NYC Neighborhoods and Time Out’s Rental Deals
- Our Favorite New York City Neighborhood Blogs
- Welcome To My First Apartment’s New Online Home!
- My First Apartment is Moving!
- Can You BBQ Legally In/Around Your Apt?
March 2010
- How Much Should You Budget for Utilities?
- How to Make your Bathroom So Clean it Sings
- Your Roommate Can Now Text You Their Share Of the Rent With Venmo
- Should you be building a . . . first apartment dowry?
- It’d be Sharp Thinking to Buy a Solid Pair of Knives for Your Apt!
February 2010
- Should Your Personality Type Dictate Your Neighborhood?
- When Dealing with Sublets, Get Everything in Writing
- The First 10 Items You Need For Your First Apartment!
- Stay Warm …and Frugal!
January 2010
- 10 more things you’ll NEED for your first apartment
- New York City Neighborhood Guide
- Keep Your No-Takeout New Year’s Resolution!
December 2009
- Shop After Christmas Sales for Great Apartment Bargains!
- Google Helps You Plan Your Commute Before Signing the Lease
- How Much Should You Be Tipping This Holiday Season?
November 2009
- How Much of Your Paycheck Should Go Towards Rent?
- How to Cozy Up your Apartment for the Holidays. . without going home
- Top 5 Warning Signs That the Apartment Ad is a Scam!
- Join My First Apartment on Facebook!
October 2009
- Emergencies Happen. You Need a Great Landlord
- Lowdown on Your Tenant Rights in NYC!
- Add These to Your Apartment Hunting Check List
- Swankify your New Apartment — Starting with a Fresh Coat of Paint
- Tips to manage the move to your new apartment
September 2009
- How I Ended Up Using a Broker
- Stop that Check!
- Play Detective Before You Sign That New Lease!
- Beware New Condo Buildings with Unfinished Apartments!
August 2009
- Moving Out when You Can’t Stand your Roommate
- Haven’t found your dream apt for Sept? Wait for October!
- What Kind of Credit Score do you Need to Rent an Apartment?
- Save Money during Summer Heatwaves!
July 2009
- Girl vs Rank, Disgusting Fridge
- Better web alternative to Craigslist – finally!
- Use Networking To Score A Rad Pad
- The Great Clean Up of My Old Room
June 2009
- Roommate Bootcamp – My First Apartment style!
- After a flood the size of Noah’s Ark, I’m getting renter’s insurance!
- Protect yourself financially when it comes to new roommates
- My Roommate Wants Us to Live with Her Unemployed, Recovering Alcoholic Friend!? Help!
- Required Roommate Reading
May 2009
- Is your apartment ready for summer? Get on it before it’s too hot to move!
- How to tell your roommate his girlfriend is a problem
- Moving to Manhattan!
- A beautiful apartment is possible no matter its size!
- I got my rent lowered by $300 per month!
- Should you be roommates with your BFF?
April 2009
- Beware of Empty Lots Next Door – They Can Turn into Construction Sites!
- Apartment Broker Confessions!
- Cheaper rent is not worth your sanity!
- Looking for your first apartment? It’s time to make your necessities vs. amenities list!
- Get the Most out of Graduation Gifts in these Lean Times?
March 2009
- Since when is it hard to find a subletter in NYC? Since Now!
- Check out Apartment Therapy’s sales guides by city!
- How to make that funky room smell go AWAY
- The PadMapper Maps Craigslist Ads aka is Best Apt Search Engine Ever!
February 2009
- Bad Roommate Story of the Week
- Furnishing your new apartment is easy as pie…maybe less tasty though.
- How to Start Your Apartment Search Using Craigslist
- It’s a Renter’s Market!
January 2009
- Real Job vs. City Decisions 3 Years Later
- What to Pick First – the City or the Job?
- How to Handle a 3-week House Guest
- Trying to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues!
December 2008
- Tips for helping you survive being home for the holidays!
- My roommate got fired. . .now what?!
- The Holiday Shakedown: How much should you tip your mailman + others?
- Cheap Studio Apartment in Manhattan up for Grabs!
- Tis the season. . .to negotiate with your landlord!
November 2008
- I am thankful for . . .a pretty great living situation!
- So, is my boyfriend annoying my roommates?
- Q & A with a no-fee Rental Agency Part 2!
- Q&A with a NYC Rental Agency
- YES WE CAN! The Youth Vote Matters!
- Are you voting on Tuesday, November 4th? I am!
October 2008
- How to break-up with a roommate
- When is roommate drama worth the fuss? Ever?
- 20-somethings are thrifty — because we have no other choice
September 2008
- Apartment Hunting Lessons from Ugly Betty
- Lease Negotiations –”True Life” Part Two…Victory!!!
- Lease Negotiations –”True Life” Part One
- More Rent Negotiation How-To’s
- The new word in the renting game is — NEGOTIATION!
August 2008
- When will you feel like a New Yorker? NYTimes says – when you become a jerk.
- Why Timing Matters in the Great Apartment Search
- How much is it worth not having to sign a lease?
July 2008
- More ways to use your walls!
- Apartment Magic: Turn Your 1BR into 2BR
- New insurance plan makes it easier for first-timers to rent
- How to deal when when your friend is looking for an apartment too
- When the Subletter Renegs on the Rent
June 2008
- You’re sick. . . is your Apartment prepared?
- Welcome to Brooklyn, IKEA!
- More…HIDDEN COSTS OF LIVING IN A BIG CITY
- Furnishing La Casa on a Budget
- Living in Park Slope -The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 2008
- More Apartment Websites!!
- Compromise, Compromise, Compromise
- When is it time to rock the landlord boat?
- Maybe living “alone” ain’t so bad after all.
April 2008
- Spring Dumpster Diving for Free Furniture!
- Transference: blaming your apartment is easier than admitting moving to a new city is hard
- Did I take that apartment too soon? EEK!
- Moving to a pad in a new city: Part 2
- Finding a pad in a new city
- You’ve Found a Great Apartment — How do You Find that Great Roommate?
- Questions to ask when visiting prospective roommates
March 2008
- Using Craigslist: A Sample Email That Got Results
- Using Craigslist: How to Sell Yourself to Potential Roommates.
- We have a winner!(OR, I FOUND AN APARTMENT!!)
- Checking Craigslist Like a Madwoman, But No Luck Yet
- Mo’ Apartment Searchin / Mo’ Problems
- Location, Location, Location! Checking out the Neighborhoods
- My Permanent Apartment Search Begins( for real)!
- The Commuting Game . . .surprisingly less fun than Parcheesi
February 2008
- Making a Moving List and Checking it Twice
- Lesson learned: Work out the roommate “What Ifs” before moving in
- Going somewhere new means leaving someplace else
- Posting on Craigslist Housing Wanted worked!
- My handicap? Still being in Chicago when I need to apartment hunt in New York!
- By Golly, It’s a NEW Apartment Searchin’ Blog!
January 2008
- If a Broker Makes a Promise, Get It in Writing
- How Much Does It Cost to Move?
- Beat the Winter Blues
- My ten steps to green your apartment
- Kelly M’s guide to affordable Brooklyn neighborhoods
- Kelly M’s housewarming party and gift ideas
December 2007
- Six ways to survive winter in your first apartment
- Holiday tipping basics
- Strategies for your first apartment hunt – Part 2.
- Strategies for your first apartment hunt- Part 1.
November 2007
- 10 Ways To Make Your Apartment Greener
- How to have a happy Thanksgiving in your new apartment – some do’s and don’t’s
- Decorating and furnishing when you and your roommate have different styles
- Kelly M’s tip for making small spaces livable
October 2007
- Win their respect! or How to be the best new roommate ever.
- Ten essential places to find in your new hometown
- How to make friends in your new hometown
- How to furnish your first apartment without breaking your budget or losing your mind
- How to Secure Your Rights as a Roommate
- Kelly M’s tips for furnishing from Craigslist “free”
- Friend-of-a-friend. Or, How I Found a Great Apartment Without Really Trying
- Is this “settling down”?
September 2007
- Blogger Updates: Jeff in Chicago, Kelly in NYC and Jessica in Chicago
- You’re Sniffy, You’re Sneezy, and it’s Time to Blame your Apartment
August 2007
August 2007
- Time Flies
- Alissa’s Tips for Buying a Mattress
- Organizing Your Desk (and Other Miscellaneous Things)
July 2007
June 2007
- We’re Going on Hiatus
- Furnishing your apartment… How much will it cost you?
- Heat, but no luck yet
- My Top 10 Places to Shop for the Home
- Don’t be a product hoarder!
- 90 Degrees of Apartment Searching
May 2007
- No wire hangers! Tips for an organized closet.
- Let’s get organized!
- 10-Step Countdown to Your First Apartment
April 2007
- How to find that first apartment, one more time…
- How much do I need to save before moving?
- When a murder happens on your block, security becomes VERY important
- Settling in.
- The FATEFUL conclusion to the Couch Cover CATASTROPHE!
March 2007
- Need Judge Judy in the battle of the sofa slip cover
- Home sweet home
- Laundry-O-Rama
- Craigslist Easy as Pie
- “It must have gotten lost in the mail…”
February 2007
February 2007
January 2007
- That was fast…
- They say money is the root of all evil…
- Major Cities with Cheapest Rents!
- The Final 3: Change of Address, Cable/Internet/Phone, and keeping the lights on
- Renovation gamble that paid off
- Recon
January 2007
January 2007
- Redecorating to make old new again
- DC classic
- First Apartment Jitters
- A new condo- on the first floor
December 2006
November 2006
- Long-distance Apartment Hunting Made Easy
- Credit Scores and How I Lost My Dream Apartment
- Making an Apartment into a Home
- How long will it take to find your first apartment?
October 2006
- Why there is no such a thing as a perfect landlord
- No More Achoo! Getting Allergies Under Control
- How much is that doggie in the window?
- Understanding Your Lease Obligations
- Money Issues Between Roomies
September 2006
September 2006
- Surviving a Visit from Your Parents
- Alissa Rents in Euro Land
- What You Should Know about Using a Rental Broker
- Five Lessons from My Search
- A Few More Internet Resources
- NYC at last
- Five Six Things to Do Before You Move In
- The Housing Virgins of Manhattan and Other Apartment Hunting Stories in the News
August 2006
- What did you think I would post about next?
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- Crafts with Apartment #1
- How to throw a bangin’ housewarming bash
- Why, oh why, oh wireless?
- Apartment Beautiful: Wall Decoration
- Adventures in the Shower
July 2006
- I love my new chair. And Craigslist.
- Kate’s Apartment
- Keeping cool?
- Dispatch from Apartment #1
- Moving Tips
June 2006
May 2006
May 2006
April 2006
April 2006
April 2006
- Free Time?!?
- Chicago Rocks
- Continuing into the soft, green night
- too good to be true.
- So I’m looking for a place to live….
- Onward, not backwards!
- What to Get?
- could it be?
- The Wait Begins
March 2006
March 2006
March 2006
February 2006
- How to lose cash, a friend and not get the apartment
- Romance in the Air?
- The Crazy Spaces That People Rent Out
- Ode to IKEA
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
- Apartment Hunter’s Checklist
- Rental Adspeak Translator
- Basic Furniture Checklist
- Starter Equipment Checklist
- Roommate Decisions: The Personal Stuff
- Leases: The Important Stuff
- Strategies for the Hunt: Brokers, Craigslist, doormen and more
- How Much Rent Can I Afford and Other First Decisions?
- Top Five First Apartment Mistakes
- Let the Hunt Begin
- Starter Pantry and Staples Checklist
- Roommate Agreement Checklist
- New York City – City Guide
- Los Angeles – City Guide
- Chicago – City Guide
- Boston – City Guide
- Is This Still Safe to Eat
- You, Too, Can Be Handy
- Clean Living: Cleaning, laundry and mouse patrol
- Furniture… and Other Stuff You’ll Need
- Moving In: Taking Care of the Details
