I visited NYC a few months ago and met someone who just moved to Manhattan from Boston. I asked about how she found a place to live and she said it was the wors

I visited NYC a few months ago and met someone who just moved to Manhattan from Boston. I asked about how she found a place to live and she said it was the worst experience she's ever had. She said that it was impossible to find apartments for rent online, so she was basically forced to walk around the neighborhoods knocking on doors to find an apartment. Half the apartments said they were full, and the other half wouldn't even let her in the lobby. She ended up biting the bullet and hiring an apartment hunter. All of a sudden a ton of apartments had rooms available, including some of the apartments who told her they were full or didn't let her in the lobby. That told me there is a ton of politics involved in the leasing market in NYC. It doesn't surprise me at all they don't like things like Airbnb.