April 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Intern Leilani is searching for a new apartment, but she might have to sacrifice everything she wants and live with bugs!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your heads together and we're gonna start to party
in the party.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm reading a party, the Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is the after Party Podcast. Let's just continue the
party into the podcast. Okay, we've got a room full here,
Gandhi and Scary and producer Sam and Danielle and I
remember everyone's name. Scotti b is here, and of course
it's straight in eight and internal Leilani is here, Leilanio Darling.
(00:36):
So intern Leilani is doing that New York City thing
looking for an apartment.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, God bless, it's rough.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You know. Look, apartments are expensive everywhere in this fine
nation of ours, but if you're looking for an apartment
in New York City, it's awful. I mean they have
fees and there's extra extra deposit shift to pay. It's
a lot of money. How is your apartment hunt going?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, it's been about a month and a half. I
was like, I started early March and I was like,
I'm going to get something by April. First. My criteria,
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is not that hard, but a fair criteria.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Okay, So it's me and my girlfriend, one bedroom somewhere
near twenty to twenty five hundreds.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You're gonna be living in the bron You're not even
gonna be living at the Bronx. Hold on, hold on. Okay,
So so one bedroom, but what neighborhood because that makes
a big difference.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Well, I like like choosing Ditmas Park right now, So
I like that area, prospect Lefforts Garden, somewhere park side,
maybe right facing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The park at a park and two more thousand from
the park. So you're looking to pay two to twenty
five hundred a month in New York.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
City near the park. You know what that's going to
be infested with if you pay that Oh yes, the roommates.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's the other way to do it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So so you've been looking around, So did you find
anything that was two thousand or twenty five hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, okay, I found a lot and we applied for
a lot, but we've had some issues with our guaranteurs.
At first I asked my grandpa and then he was like,
I'm only going to say yes if you get that
guy to call me and explain everything to me what
I need to send, and then I'm not going to
send it. I'm going to talk to my accountant. Who
(02:30):
was then going to only send two of the things.
He was like, I'm not showing my tax.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, you're not going to get the apartment. Oh yes,
And I was like, in your city. If you don't
help on it immediately and I'm going to have time.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
To think, you just have to do it right there.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah. I asked the broker once. I was like, would
you be willing to call my grandpa? I can call
him right now. And the guy went no, and I
had to walk out.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, So, so you did find an apartment for twenty
five hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It was it was well, it was two thousand a month, okay.
It was off of Parkside A the BQ stop.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Okay, so we got a train there. That's good.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, and we put the deposit down and then this
is where.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It adds up. So it's you said twenty five a month,
deposit was how much?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The deposit was two thousand and then the broker fee
was thirty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They were doing away with them.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That starts in may broker fee. Yeah, okay, it happens.
So this is what you have to lay out immediately. Well,
so did you do it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
So we put the first deposit down just to take
it off of like street Easy and stuff. And then
they waited a week to tell us, we don't trust
you guys because you're in college still, so we're not going.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To get it you Well, I think when you tell
the broker to talk to your grandpa, some alarms go off.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, so even even outside of her situation being a
broke college student, no.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No, I work here, Yeah, lofty gulls though she wants
to live in a near a park.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, but for anybody in New York City to get
an apartment, good luck are That's why they have these
broker fees, right, And it's usually I think they calculated
what the.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Year fifteen of the yearly right now.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, a lot of money honestly up to the brokers
sometimes and based on how many people are looking at it.
That's basically what Determan says gets that money in there.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
First, as you listen to this, and you're maybe having
dreams about moving to New York City because they say
everyone should live here at least for one year out
of their life. And yeah, then you can go back
to wherever you want to live. But this is just
one of the many things you got to remember and
living in the city, not only is it very expensive,
is a pain. They has to live here, You have
to get around, You have to like hope no one
(04:40):
slashes your faces into Yeah. So so now you're looking
for an apartment.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Again, back on the websites and running around. If anyone
has any leads, I'll take them.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I have something that I want to all share it
with you because I have to double check that they're
still up and running. But there was a guy that
I met when I first moved here, and he worked
for a company that found apartments in New York City
and didn't charge your broker fee. All they wanted you
to do was post on Instagram about them, and he
took me to a bunch of different places and I
ended up living in Jersey City instead. But it might
(05:18):
help you. That's pretty cool, I used him.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yes, that was also part of it, post on Instagram.
Sleep with them?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know, I hate to pull out this card, but
should maybe tell them about your affiliation with the Elvis
drand morn show.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You well, you best believe I declare this as my
source of income has yet to help.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh, you put it on there, el Like.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I said it, I put it like, here's my pay slips.
I work at the Elvestrand in the morning show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
See that's embarrassed. This is why I don't want people
to do that, because when you play the Elvis Rand
Morning Show employee card and they say no, thank you, Right,
that's so degrading.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So what I will say is this, because we had
this conversation years ago when I first moved to New
York City, are you willing to make some concessions in
the apartment so that you could get a cheaper price?
Because I got a sixth floor walk up, which was
I believe three hundred dollars cheaper than something on the
lower floor because nobody wanted to walk up six flights
of stairs every day.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
See, I I've got plenty of concessions. I don't need laundry,
I don't need I just need one window at least,
I don't. I don't need windows. The company is called Lofty.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Lofty, Yes, try lofty, because they really he was awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Good to know, Yeah, good to know. Yeah, I'm making
concessions left and right. I don't I'll have a pet rat.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I'll do about You're gonna have a pet rat?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Is not even necessarily just it's the train line. I
need to be near a train.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You have an extra room in your apartment.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, no, I don't. No, no, I have an extra
room in yours. Yeah, no, I have one room. So
I remember when I first moved moved to New York City.
I got a place in the village on Thompson Street.
I mean in the middle of the village, right Greenwich Village,
New York Cities, where I was. And that was a
microscopic dot of an apartment. It was built in the
(07:13):
post war, meaning the walls are so thin you can
hear the heartbeat of the neighbor. And I got a
note uder my door once from the lady downstairs. She said,
please don't walk across your floor after ten pm because
it makes so much noise. I'm trying to sleep. So
I said a note back saying, well, unless you can
gift me with a magic carpet to get across my apartment, yeah,
(07:38):
to go to the bathroom. It ain't happening New York City.
It's tough to live here. It's supposed to be it's
supposed to be expensive, it's supposed to be a pay
in the ass. But that's why you do it. Just
toughen you up, figure it out. You can do it tough.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I remember one apartment I looked at. I walked in.
The guy that had lived there previously was still moving
his stuff out. But I'm standing there with the broker
and uh talking to the broker, and I asked, do
you mind if I talked to the guy that's moving up?
And he kind of just rolls his eyes and he says,
go ahead. So I said, hey, any problems with living here?
He goes, well, there's a huge water bug problem, which
(08:18):
are those big cockroaches? And as soon as he said
that done, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But for two grand for the two of the water,
how about something like Staten Island. You can probably get
something good in Staten Island for that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I get seasick. I can't take a boat. I can't
afford a car. Okay, so car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Again. If you want to move to New York City,
just take note.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Have you thought about Newark?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Nework?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You can take like a busterer training.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I'll fly into JFK every morning.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
An apartment your part? A trailer park?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
There are some fancy trailers, man, I don't know right
next to the park, the park roage, Well, good luck, learn,
thank you for
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The Elvista Ran after party.
Get your heads together and we're gonna start to party
in the party.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm reading a party, the Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is the after Party Podcast. Let's just continue the
party into the podcast. Okay, we've got a room full here,
Gandhi and Scary and producer Sam and Danielle and I
remember everyone's name. Scotti b is here, and of course
it's straight in eight and internal Leilani is here, Leilanio Darling.
(00:36):
So intern Leilani is doing that New York City thing
looking for an apartment.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, God bless, it's rough.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You know. Look, apartments are expensive everywhere in this fine
nation of ours, but if you're looking for an apartment
in New York City, it's awful. I mean they have
fees and there's extra extra deposit shift to pay. It's
a lot of money. How is your apartment hunt going?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, it's been about a month and a half. I
was like, I started early March and I was like,
I'm going to get something by April. First. My criteria,
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is not that hard, but a fair criteria.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Okay, So it's me and my girlfriend, one bedroom somewhere
near twenty to twenty five hundreds.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You're gonna be living in the bron You're not even
gonna be living at the Bronx. Hold on, hold on. Okay,
So so one bedroom, but what neighborhood because that makes
a big difference.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Well, I like like choosing Ditmas Park right now, So
I like that area, prospect Lefforts Garden, somewhere park side,
maybe right facing.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The park at a park and two more thousand from
the park. So you're looking to pay two to twenty
five hundred a month in New York.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
City near the park. You know what that's going to
be infested with if you pay that Oh yes, the roommates.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's the other way to do it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So so you've been looking around, So did you find
anything that was two thousand or twenty five hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, okay, I found a lot and we applied for
a lot, but we've had some issues with our guaranteurs.
At first I asked my grandpa and then he was like,
I'm only going to say yes if you get that
guy to call me and explain everything to me what
I need to send, and then I'm not going to
send it. I'm going to talk to my accountant. Who
(02:30):
was then going to only send two of the things.
He was like, I'm not showing my tax.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, you're not going to get the apartment. Oh yes,
And I was like, in your city. If you don't
help on it immediately and I'm going to have time.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
To think, you just have to do it right there.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah. I asked the broker once. I was like, would
you be willing to call my grandpa? I can call
him right now. And the guy went no, and I
had to walk out.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, So, so you did find an apartment for twenty
five hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It was it was well, it was two thousand a month, okay.
It was off of Parkside A the BQ stop.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Okay, so we got a train there. That's good.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, and we put the deposit down and then this
is where.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It adds up. So it's you said twenty five a month,
deposit was how much?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The deposit was two thousand and then the broker fee
was thirty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They were doing away with them.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That starts in may broker fee. Yeah, okay, it happens.
So this is what you have to lay out immediately. Well,
so did you do it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
So we put the first deposit down just to take
it off of like street Easy and stuff. And then
they waited a week to tell us, we don't trust
you guys because you're in college still, so we're not going.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To get it you Well, I think when you tell
the broker to talk to your grandpa, some alarms go off.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, so even even outside of her situation being a
broke college student, no.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No, I work here, Yeah, lofty gulls though she wants
to live in a near a park.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, but for anybody in New York City to get
an apartment, good luck are That's why they have these
broker fees, right, And it's usually I think they calculated
what the.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Year fifteen of the yearly right now.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, a lot of money honestly up to the brokers
sometimes and based on how many people are looking at it.
That's basically what Determan says gets that money in there.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
First, as you listen to this, and you're maybe having
dreams about moving to New York City because they say
everyone should live here at least for one year out
of their life. And yeah, then you can go back
to wherever you want to live. But this is just
one of the many things you got to remember and
living in the city, not only is it very expensive,
is a pain. They has to live here, You have
to get around, You have to like hope no one
(04:40):
slashes your faces into Yeah. So so now you're looking
for an apartment.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Again, back on the websites and running around. If anyone
has any leads, I'll take them.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I have something that I want to all share it
with you because I have to double check that they're
still up and running. But there was a guy that
I met when I first moved here, and he worked
for a company that found apartments in New York City
and didn't charge your broker fee. All they wanted you
to do was post on Instagram about them, and he
took me to a bunch of different places and I
ended up living in Jersey City instead. But it might
(05:18):
help you. That's pretty cool, I used him.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yes, that was also part of it, post on Instagram.
Sleep with them?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know, I hate to pull out this card, but
should maybe tell them about your affiliation with the Elvis
drand morn show.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You well, you best believe I declare this as my
source of income has yet to help.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh, you put it on there, el Like.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I said it, I put it like, here's my pay slips.
I work at the Elvestrand in the morning show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
See that's embarrassed. This is why I don't want people
to do that, because when you play the Elvis Rand
Morning Show employee card and they say no, thank you, Right,
that's so degrading.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So what I will say is this, because we had
this conversation years ago when I first moved to New
York City, are you willing to make some concessions in
the apartment so that you could get a cheaper price?
Because I got a sixth floor walk up, which was
I believe three hundred dollars cheaper than something on the
lower floor because nobody wanted to walk up six flights
of stairs every day.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
See, I I've got plenty of concessions. I don't need laundry,
I don't need I just need one window at least,
I don't. I don't need windows. The company is called Lofty.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Lofty, Yes, try lofty, because they really he was awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Good to know, Yeah, good to know. Yeah, I'm making
concessions left and right. I don't I'll have a pet rat.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I'll do about You're gonna have a pet rat?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Is not even necessarily just it's the train line. I
need to be near a train.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You have an extra room in your apartment.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, no, I don't. No, no, I have an extra
room in yours. Yeah, no, I have one room. So
I remember when I first moved moved to New York City.
I got a place in the village on Thompson Street.
I mean in the middle of the village, right Greenwich Village,
New York Cities, where I was. And that was a
microscopic dot of an apartment. It was built in the
(07:13):
post war, meaning the walls are so thin you can
hear the heartbeat of the neighbor. And I got a
note uder my door once from the lady downstairs. She said,
please don't walk across your floor after ten pm because
it makes so much noise. I'm trying to sleep. So
I said a note back saying, well, unless you can
gift me with a magic carpet to get across my apartment, yeah,
(07:38):
to go to the bathroom. It ain't happening New York City.
It's tough to live here. It's supposed to be it's
supposed to be expensive, it's supposed to be a pay
in the ass. But that's why you do it. Just
toughen you up, figure it out. You can do it tough.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I remember one apartment I looked at. I walked in.
The guy that had lived there previously was still moving
his stuff out. But I'm standing there with the broker
and uh talking to the broker, and I asked, do
you mind if I talked to the guy that's moving up?
And he kind of just rolls his eyes and he says,
go ahead. So I said, hey, any problems with living here?
He goes, well, there's a huge water bug problem, which
(08:18):
are those big cockroaches? And as soon as he said
that done, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But for two grand for the two of the water,
how about something like Staten Island. You can probably get
something good in Staten Island for that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I get seasick. I can't take a boat. I can't
afford a car. Okay, so car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Again. If you want to move to New York City,
just take note.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Have you thought about Newark?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Nework?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You can take like a busterer training.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I'll fly into JFK every morning.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
An apartment your part? A trailer park?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
There are some fancy trailers, man, I don't know right
next to the park, the park roage, Well, good luck, learn,
thank you for
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The Elvista Ran after party.
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