epymsam

Can anyone give me advice on renting in Manhattan. I'm a little worried about our lack of credit history - will this be a problem? Does anyone have experience of getting their first apartment in NCY? Any tips? How did you gat around the lack of credit history issue?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Bob

As with most places, depends on who you rent with, go private and they probably won't do a check, but through a realtor or condo, they might....but a large enough deposit will always work, but your looking at first/last + deposit to secure a place anyway, and that's enough cash to keep anyone happy.

penguinsix

Craigslist is a good place to start.

Something to watch out for in NY is the 'agents fee' for rentals. You basically have to put up 50%-100% rent as a 'fee' to the agent who shows you the rental (it sucks). You'll see some ads listing 'no fee' so that is what they are talking about.

Bob's advice is good--seek out the private people renting rather than the big public companies which will do all sorts of credit checks.

BritGuyTN

thats about $35k isn't it? LOL

Big D

friend of mine just came out and even with his employer as guarantee he had trouble - there was a lot of competition for the flats he was going for and he always seemed to lose out and I think he paid an application fee each time!

Bob

hehe...probably

though I got my employer to pay all mine in the relocation, but it weren't nearly that expensive