Renting an apartment in New York Cityhas never beencheap or easy, but as anyone who's attempted to move recently can tell you, the current "post-pandemic*" rental market is straight-up bonkers.
In fact,rents are up 33%year over year — with many units renting for more than before the pandemic — and the vacancy rate in Manhattan is hovering just above 1%.
So, if you've attempted to move to or within NYC in the last year or so, we want to hear your pandemic-era apartment hunting horror story. (Seriously, everyone's got one.)
Maybe you got a hell of a "deal" before vaccines were widely available, nabbing a one-bedroom in Chelsea — in a doorman building with in-unit washer/dryer — for less than $2,000 a month... but then you got your lease renewal, which jacked the price up to $4,100.
Or maybe you made an appointment to see a place, but when you showed up, there were 50 people already inside, and the broker revealed that she'd actually already received nine applications, so your showing was only a backup anyway.
Or perhaps, after finally getting a place all your own with a significant rent reduction last year, you were forced to move back inwith your exbecause both of you were in the same awful boat, given sky-high prices and super-low inventory.
