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How large / where is is your place if your neighbors pay $8000 a month to rent it?

nobody9999 4y ago
>How large / where is is your place if your neighbors pay $8000 a month to rent it? I didn't say my rent was $4,000 a month. I said my monthly nut (rent, utilities, insurance, ISP, excluding food, clothing, transportation, medical expenses, etc., etc., etc.) was ~$4,000/month. My place is significantly smaller than a double-wide trailer. And my rent bill is my business and that of my landlord.[0] Have a good day! [0] Since rent stabilized leases have an upper limit to the rent charged to remain rent stabilized, you can get an upper limit to that with a little research. Good luck. Edit: Added additional info about my rent.
- librish 4y ago
  For most people if they're paying $4000 a month the majority of that is going towards rent. Utilities, insurance (for a renter), ISP will rarely be over $500 a month, but maybe one of these things is really expensive in your location.
  - nobody9999 4y ago
    Yep. My rent is more than half of my monthly nut. Why would you think otherwise based on what I said? My renter's insurance is ~$100/year. The bigger issue (for me at least) is the ~$1,000/month (plus $600 deductible and $40 copays) I pay for crappy health insurance.
    - librish 4y ago
      You said: > I pay about half in rent what my neighbors do. I assumed that most of your $4,000 a month was going towards rent, which would mean your neighbors are paying close to $8,000 a month. That's a very large number so I asked about that. This was apparently wrong enough for you to want to correct me (without saying what your neighbors actually pay). That made me then try to understand if you have really high fees. This also doesn't seem to be the case.
      - nobody9999 4y ago
        Most of my neighbors are Columbia students who pack three or four people into an apartment, while I live alone. I'll clarify. Again. The rent on most of the apartments in my building is ~2x what I pay in rent. One of a trio sharing an apartment pays less for rent (rather, mommy and daddy do) than I do for rent. I have other expenses as well. I don't give lots of detail because I'm not interested in publishing my budget online. If that perturbs you, my apologies.

>How large / where is is your place if your neighbors pay $8000 a month to rent it? I didn't say my rent was $4,000 a month. I said my monthly nut (rent, utilities, insurance, ISP, excluding food, clothing, transportation, medical expenses, etc., etc., etc.) was ~$4,000/month. My place is significantly smaller than a double-wide trailer. And my rent bill is my business and that of my landlord.[0] Have a good day! [0] Since rent stabilized leases have an upper limit to the rent charged to remain rent stabilized, you can get an upper limit to that with a little research. Good luck. Edit: Added additional info about my rent.

librish 4y ago
For most people if they're paying $4000 a month the majority of that is going towards rent. Utilities, insurance (for a renter), ISP will rarely be over $500 a month, but maybe one of these things is really expensive in your location.
- nobody9999 4y ago
  Yep. My rent is more than half of my monthly nut. Why would you think otherwise based on what I said? My renter's insurance is ~$100/year. The bigger issue (for me at least) is the ~$1,000/month (plus $600 deductible and $40 copays) I pay for crappy health insurance.
  - librish 4y ago
    You said: > I pay about half in rent what my neighbors do. I assumed that most of your $4,000 a month was going towards rent, which would mean your neighbors are paying close to $8,000 a month. That's a very large number so I asked about that. This was apparently wrong enough for you to want to correct me (without saying what your neighbors actually pay). That made me then try to understand if you have really high fees. This also doesn't seem to be the case.
    - nobody9999 4y ago
      Most of my neighbors are Columbia students who pack three or four people into an apartment, while I live alone. I'll clarify. Again. The rent on most of the apartments in my building is ~2x what I pay in rent. One of a trio sharing an apartment pays less for rent (rather, mommy and daddy do) than I do for rent. I have other expenses as well. I don't give lots of detail because I'm not interested in publishing my budget online. If that perturbs you, my apologies.