Looking for 2 bedroom apt.

stillooking

My future roommate and I are 2 queer recent college grads. We are looking for an apt. under 2100.

Any advice?

raw

Most landlords don't care if you're queer as long as you are employed. It's not Chelsea, but it's not Nebraska.

jah

Yeah I was wondering why you made mention of queer. I would recommend looking elsewhere than Park Slope if you want a 2 bedroom for that price.

longtimesloper

yeah-what's the point of mentioning queer? that just seems ridiculous. Also, I don't see how you are going to get a 2 bedroom in Park Slope for that price.

apollonia666

LongTimeSloper wrote: yeah-what's the point of mentioning queer? that just seems ridiculous. Also, I don't see how you are going to get a 2 bedroom in Park Slope for that price.

Because maybe they want to find a landlord who isn't going to be freaked out or a jerk about that? Seems pretty simple to me.

longtimesloper

Do landlords in this very gay friendly neighborhood still react badly to gay tenants? i figure this is one neighborhood where people don't even bat an eye about that.

raw

I haven't heard of any problems in Park Slope, but I've met straight boy/girl couples from out of town who claimed they had to get married to rent places from landlords who think unmarried couples are sinners.

furman82

I swear that when a friend helped me look for an apartment here in 1997, brokers weren't showing us places because they thought we were an interracial couple. Went back to the same places alone (as a white girl) and voila.....a whole bunch of available apartments. Sad.

I think in apartment BUILDINGS nobody cares, but if you are renting a landlord-occupied small building or in a brownstone, you are more likely to be subjected to whatever profile the landlord is looking for...legally or not...they could hate gays or any other group. Sucks, but I think it's naive to think that that type of stuff doesn't happen.

Good luck. I think it's the price that's going to be more difficult than the queer thing

opossumqueen

Go south slope and farther for that price. I had some friends who had a nice (but not huge) 2 bedroom on 20th St that they loved and it was definitely under $2100.

We would walk between that place and my place in north Slope often and I liked all of it. There aren't as many shops down that way, but that is changing and it's a short trek to plenty of food and shop options.

matt foley

Wasn't there a flame war following a pretty similar thread a while back? I think it may have been in the Prospect Heights thread... page after page after page of debating whether it was relevant to mention the apartment-seekers' sexual orientation. Maybe someone better than me at the Googles can find it...

vanilla

OpossumQueen wrote: Go south slope and farther for that price. I had some friends who had a nice (but not huge) 2 bedroom on 20th St that they loved and it was definitely under $2100.

We would walk between that place and my place in north Slope often and I liked all of it. There aren't as many shops down that way, but that is changing and it's a short trek to plenty of food and shop options.

good advice - just around park slope $2100 should get you a place no problem. and you can still walk to PS in like 10 minutes.