Jennifer's Apartment Living Blog April 2008 Archive

Apartment living means no mortgage or property to tie you down to one city. It means, within a year at most, you can pack up and move (easy enough when ... Read More

If you are a renter who's lucky enough to have a bathroom sink with cabinets underneath, then please make use of the space—those renters with no storage will live vicariously ... Read More

Of the many ways to find a roommate, there's the old-fashion way—asking friends and acquaintances—and the Web 2.0 way—websites, Facebook, and MySpace. I'm curious, how many of you have used ... Read More

Anyone can be a potential roommate. They can be friends, coworkers, strangers, and people a few degrees removed from you—you know, friends of friends of friends. And there are just ... Read More

There are many ways to find an apartment. Like jobs, it's rumored that the hidden gems never get publicly listed. So, I recommend networking as you would for a job ... Read More

If so, check out this article from the New York Times (which owns About.coms). It demystifies some of the notions people have when looking for an apartment in New York: ... Read More

Painting your apartment has always been recommended as an affordable way to dramatically personalize your rental—and make it feel like your home. Well, after 3 years of living in mine, ... Read More

In addition to the rising foreclosures, there are those struggling to pay rent each month. That's where Section 8 housing vouchers come in, but they're not so easy to come ... Read More

As a renter, you may or may not have been paying attention to the fallout of the subprime mess. Well, maybe you should. Even buildings with renters have been foreclosured ... Read More

The Webby Awards nominations have been announced, and one of them is the HBO Voyeur Project, a stellar multimedia project launched in the summer of 2007 about the idea of ... Read More

During a Google search, I stumbled upon this sobering article from the Washington Post that came out last year about acceptable levels of noise in the apartment. Written by real estate ... Read More

Whether you've been living in your apartment for three months or three years, spring is an excellent time to purge your home of stuff. There's something about the arrival of ... Read More

Paid repairs are one of the perks of living in an apartment. Leaky faucet? Tell the landlord or super and they'll fix it with no extra cost to you (unless, ... Read More

When connecting wirelessly to the Internet on your computer, you may have seen a choice of networks. Many of these are your neighbor's wireless connections, and in an apartment building, ... Read More