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A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K

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Re: A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K

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What does one have to do to secure a $1100 a month apartment in NYC?

I'm sure everyone else wants it.

Get drawn from a rental lottery at random? Offer your first born child? Supplement your rent with sexual favors to the landlord?

Re: A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K

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Rent control fundamentally cannot work, which is why it never works. Malicious noncompliance is a red herring.

It can and does work in many places. Whole cities like Stockholm mostly consist of rent-controlled apartments which have same rents paid since WWII era, which now amount to almost nothing. It creates awful social distortions and indirect costs, but it certainly does work.

Re: A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K

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post #5

Rent control fundamentally cannot work, which is why it never works. Malicious noncompliance is a red herring.

It can and does work in many places. Whole cities like Stockholm mostly consist of rent-controlled apartments which have same rents paid since WWII era, which now amount to almost nothing. It creates awful social distortions and indirect costs, but it certainly does work.

> It creates awful social distortions and indirect costs, but it certainly does work.

I don't think this meets the criteria most would consider “working”.

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