If you read my Friday’s Simply Smitten post from last week then you would know that I FINALLY found a new apartment!! I am moving into my new place on November 1st. After about 19 apartment viewings and too many brokers that I cared to deal with, I found my new studio apartment last Monday. The broker that I did work with the most was a real trooper (read on my FSS series on how I got the apartment.. most New York thing you will ever hear). I know what I want and I have been in New York long enough to know that you can get more bang for your buck, you just have to really dig deep and be patient to find these gems. And out of all the apartments I have lived in here– 5 to be exact- I have always gotten big apartments for less. Except for one apartment on E31st, my God that was the worst apartment known to man. Anyway, I would know immediately upon entering an apartment, heck sometimes upon entering the building, whether or not I would like it. It was not that I disliked all of them; there was one I loved on W23rd and 7th that had everything I wanted and more– 3 CLOSETS HELLO! Unfortunately, there were multiple applicants and I lost out on it. C’est la vie.

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