What Are HOAs? How Renters Should Navigate Them

September 3, 2019 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

Renting an apartment from a landlord or management company is par for the course, but renting a townhome is a less common occurrence. A townhome, as compared to an apartment, a rowhome, or even a standalone home on a suburban street, is part of a larger living community where certain rules apply. An organization called…

Should You Buy Or Rent?

June 29, 2011 | By Alissa AuthorMy First Apartment

We focus much of our site about renting apartments. How to do it – from dealing with landlords, finding new (and sane) roommates, or hunting down movers – we got your back. But, housing prices are down, interest rates are low and there has been a flurry of rent vs buy articles in various places (including last week’s NYTimes…

Beware New Condo Buildings with Unfinished Apartments!

September 7, 2009 | By Alissa AuthorMy First Apartment

As I’m making plans to move out, I’ve been picking friends’ brains to see if they have any connections to open apartments/roommates and came across another crazy NYC housing story that I very much need to share with ya’ll. It’s one of the worst I’ve heard – and it can really happen anywhere and to…

Condo dreamin’

January 16, 2007 | By Ariana AuthorMy First Apartment

OK, so I’ve decided against even going to see the Woodner, but school starts at the end of next week so I gotta get on it. Some new, really nice options have been presented to me. My parents always talked about getting a condominium in Washington to have another property in the city. Well, I…

A new condo- on the first floor

January 5, 2007 | By Ariana AuthorMy First Apartment

Ok, so I have some options. My first stop was craigslist- I’d been checking this site for a couple of months and in the past I’ve had luck with jobs/internships through it. This apartment had an incredible price ($600). It was a new 2 bedroom/2 bathroom condo near UMD. It said to call. I called…