Living in NYC’s SMALLEST Apartment (60 Square Feet)

[@MsCleo-nl6de]

I was born and raised in New York, and miss it every day, but seeing apartments like these with those insane prices lets me know that I made the right decision when I left.

[@saymynamejk4409]

Same here! I also pay 1200 but in a good part of Philly. I believe my apartment is about 500 sq ft as well.

[@ASprinkleofAnime]

Same! I couldn't stand having roommates

[@MitchellBPYao]

Rather go there alone than with the big group

[@PornIsHate]

Yes, you did. NYC is not what it was. They’ve driven out what made NYC interesting. It’s just not worth it living there at those prices dealing with all the dirt and noise.

[@cathynewyork7918]

No, you didn't make the right decision when you left NYC -- even with the damage to the economy and culture from Covid, NYC is still an exciting city. I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens for $1200 a month and have much more space than this tiny Manhattan apartment. You just need to do your apartment-hunting in the outer boroughs instead of Manhattan. I go to that Flame Diner several times a month -- it's just a train ride away from Queens. You can live here for a reasonable rent -- you just need to work hard to find it.

[@billystpaul8907]

You would have to be totally nuts to rent that closet for 1200. There is nothing NYC has to offer to live like that.

[@taylorlibby7642]

Opinions vary. It'll rent to someone.

[@paulsuprono7225]

Go rent . . . Someone's roof, Lol ! 😛

[@gridley]

"Quality of life" apparently can dip quite low in NYC because the city is so desirable. I'm not being sarcastic either. Or too sarcastic. Quite seriously, NYC is pretty much a case of: It is what it is. It has the charm of London/Paris, etc, & the economic muscle of Tokyo, etc. Good weather too.

[@Gizathecat2]

It would be okay for someone who lives on Long Island and telecommutes most of the time and has to go into the city for a couple days a week to work.

[@TrainsFerriesFeet]

As they stated, it's like living in a college dorm room. People move to NYC to follow their dreams and hopefully earn their fortune.

[@tsoioleg]

These videos are addictively depressing and uplifting at the same time

[@CashJordan]

Hah I’ll take it

[@54sme]

I totally agree!

[@kittykatz3518]

They are becoming more and more depressing.

[@zeveroarerules]

It makes you happy knowing you're not stupid enough to rent shit like that.

[@susangilliam6400]

I know.

[@TJDawgs72]

I lived in dorms for my first six years while I was in the Air Force…I never lived in a dorm room that small. I understand it’s expensive to live in New York City but that’s just ridiculous. Should be illegal to classify that as an “apartment” when it has no bathroom and not even your own water source.

[@marthamitchell9452]

But you were in the Air Force, not everyone can score high enough to get in. They do have better digs than the other branches, unless you are deployed. I’ve stayed at Edwards AFB many times on vacation, both in temporary housing and in the FamCamp and you couldn’t ask for better.

[@TJDawgs72]

@@marthamitchell9452 without a doubt the Air Force’s accommodations are much better than the other military branches. It’s one of the incentives for choosing them above the other branches. A lot of the dorm rooms that I lived in were more like nice hotel rooms.

[@marthamitchell9452]

@@TJDawgs72 because we had our dog with us we couldn’t stay at The Inn of the Air Force so for the same low price we had a completely furnished 2 bedroom fourplex unit with a fenced yard and laundry. Nicer than lots of hotels I’ve stayed in.

[@KatieBellino]

To be fair, you do have use of a shared bathroom. You're basically paying to say in an adult dormitory.

[@cathynewyork7918]

Please have a well-balanced view of New York City apartments -- the apartment in this video is very small because it is in one of Manhattan's prime neighborhoods, where there is much demand for apartments. I live further out, in the NYC borough of Queens. I have much more space and pay less rent -- you just have to be reasonable about going to an affordable neighborhood. Cash wants "juicy" apartments to stir up comments on his website. You can find reasonable rents with private bathrooms and fully equipped kitchens in the outer boroughs and you are just a train ride away from Manhattan.

[@Bobrogers99]

The 60-square-foot place is a room, not an apartment. The $3,400 apartment has a terrace and laundry machines, but it's really a studio with a wall that separates the living area from its windows. The $4,400 unit is the same, subtracting the terrace and adding a bedroom. Does that make it worth that much? These prices are scary!

[@aviajarehema7393]

There is an apartment complex in Brooklyn (in a complex that is not NYCHA) with 1/2/3 bedrooms, 1/& one and a half bath, and nice sized living-common room, with galley kitchen including laundry on the main floor, separate parking garage, maintenance (call in for appointment/janitors' closet/incinerator--last 2 on each floor), security force {associated with NYPD} [a sports club/gym as part of the complex premises (for $450 yearly for tenants), Lions Club, nursery/daycare, elementary/middle schools, mini shopping mall, senior citizens association and management offices--these are on the premises of the complex itself. The tenants will soon be receiving new appliances, fixtures, painting, bathroom and kitchen furnishings, and floorings. The rent my relative pays is $1600 monthly! MTA Bus transportation is nearby; a major mall, and thoroughfare is nearby as well; plus a walking/biking trail near the major highway nearby‼. [But this is not in Downtown Brooklyn!]

[@jackhouston357]

They are thinking ahead when the city has to house "Migrants " the Gov will pay more. You will be removed.

[@AssBlasster]

I don't think that 60 sq ft legally qualifies as a "bedroom" or maybe even a prison cell...

[@MrJest2]

It's not a room. It's a closet. In fact, it's smaller than our master bedroom closet here in our house.

[@firefrost9718]

@@AssBlasster It's a converted office space.

[@nygrl6102]

Sharing a bathroom with an unknown number of strangers??? NEVER. N.E.V.E.R.

[@Zembassi3962]

I agree! If you are a person who constantly keeps things/areas clean, orderly and on the up-and-up, this arrangement is NOT GOOD AT ALL! Not everyone is the same, and some don't care at all for their fellowperson. The G.B.L(s) here doesn't care either about their tenants' personal welfare: 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰TALKS and EVERYTHING ELSE 🦶🏽🦶🏽🦶🏽🦶🏽

[@TeatimeThotsWithMorgan]

I mean, those of us who lived in dorms in uni had to do this, but I always hated it. I always ate at the dining hall, never cooked at my place, because I had no privacy and always felt like someone was waiting for me to finish so they could make their food.

[@KatieBellino]

I mean, it's a somewhat known number (however many units on the floor). Not my thing, but it's not worse than what anyone who has been a freshmen in a college dorm has done.

[@lindawarden-burglund9603]

I hate the idea of sharing a bathroom with everyone who lives on that floor! It wasn't the worst bathroom I've ever seen, but just the thought of it makes me queasy. And that dirty mop! Where's the bucket and some Spic and Span?

[@paulineb66]

Who cleans it?

[@jasontaylor8332]

You would have to pay ME more than 1200 bucks a month to live in the first "apartment"!!!

[@jerrierichter4]

That first apartment should be classified as a jail cell with a key.

[@Zembassi3962]

🤣🤣👋👌

[@anunearthlychild8569]

Would the small size of the room still be allowed at all according to the Geneva Conventions? 🤣

[@Polkadot2]

Jail cells are bigger

[@christinebutler7630]

It's illegal to house inmates in a cell that small.

[@azgypsy]

😅

[@annsmith7207]

As a NYC native -- I don't think that space is actually legal to rent as an apartment. Absolute GREED! Disgusting!

[@tankueytryn]

$1200 for central Manhattan is more like an entry level apartment. Like the man said; "someone with a strong desire to live in Manhattan but with a low income."

[@gaylec8409]

Disgraceful to do this to people.

[@MamaMOB]

I know this is a year later but I looked it up and found an article from 2020 that states that the law says that an apartment in New York City has to be at least 150 square feet. So no it's not legal.

[@bluestripetiger]

Technically under the law it's not listed as an "apartment", it's an SRO. SRO's are legal provided that the renter has access to things that are not in his apartment made available to him in a common area-- like that restroom in the hallway, for example. I have to ask myself though if there is a common kitchen area. My guess is probably not.

[@dominaevillae28]

Sounds like what used to be called a bed-sitting room.

[@dougjohnson5487]

Seeing these apts make me feel so grateful I don't have to live in NYC.

[@AWordofHope]

Same here!!! 😮

[@kittykatz3518]

Me too

[@PornIsHate]

Yeah, its an overpriced rat race. Totally not worth it unless you want to blow your entire salary on rent.

[@kimhallums9166]

I love how he says “it’s only a thousand more”. People say “only” when it’s not their money.

[@suepeer3078]

No way could I live in an apt with no bathroom! The 2nd one is a winner! Laundry & outdoor space

[@Pintexx]

All those “rent out the closet to your broke NYU roommate/mother in law” jokes weren’t jokes at all. There are ACTUAL closets being sold in NYC for 1200$…

[@manuelcortes7091]

I lived in SRO's. That 1st one is not even fit to be a jail cell. And I sure as hell never payed an outrageous rent like that.

[@cathynewyork7918]

And for $1200 you can have a nice-sized apartment like I have, in the outer borough of Queens, with a full kitchen and private bathroom. It's just in Manhattan that it is this outrageous. If you move here, just do your apartment-hunting in the outer boroughs, which are only a train ride away from Manhattan.

[@donniemoder1466]

You say you don't have to share the apartment. But you do, you have to share the bathroom. And not have a kitchen. You should say, you don't have to share your room.

[@Pinkkermit17]

There is not even a shared kitchen area to at least cook your ramen,, they might as well put a door with bars on it and consider it a prison

[@KatieBellino]

@@Pinkkermit17 I was surprised there wasn't even one shared kitchen in the building. My college dorms had a shared kitchen.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@KatieBellino In the adult world of apartments, there is NO shared kitchen. That is for college dorms.

[@KatieBellino]

@@cathynewyork7918 I'm an adult who has had a couple of apartments and now has a house. I'm still surprised. It's BS to not have one in the apartment to begin with. To then have nothing in the whole building for the community to use is ridiculous. Also, perhaps it's hard to find, but communal kitchens do exist in adult apartments.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@KatieBellino I am 73 years old, and thus have "life experience." I am telling you that communal kitchens in an apartment building are VERY rare. Each apartment has their own kitchen, so no need for a communal kitchen which no one would take responsibility to clean.

[@jgrafx]

How can anyone live in an apartment with no in-unit bathroom or kitchen?! NO WAY!!! Number 2 is a vast improvement.

[@annemarieelizabethrosevolo4366]

A 20-Something Gen. Z young adult who is just starting out or an adult who has struggled in life, and wants a new beginning.

[@marylbullock]

I had a lovely, clean, shared bath is a gracious Upper West Side building near Riverside Park. Enjoyed living there. Had a front desk with clerk and house phone.

[@PornIsHate]

@@annemarieelizabethrosevolo4366 Yeah, no. Start over somewhere else. NYC is way overpriced and not worth it.

[@helllllloworld]

@@annemarieelizabethrosevolo4366 this sounds like a nightmare new beginning

[@KatieBellino]

Shared bathrooms are common for college dorms, so a lot of 20-somethings might not mind if they have dreams that take them to NYC. Personally, the lack of kitchen and having to eat in restaurants all of the time would not work for me. Granted, a micro-fridge and hot plate could help improve that situation.

[@maricogan2903]

Cash could give us a tour of a renovated dumpster and make it sound fun and attractive.

[@maprow]

He just did. See Apartment #1.

[@stanisbaratheon5930]

Even Jordan is shocked about the first apartment 😅

[@aviajarehema7393]

🤣💯💯🤜👏🎆🎆

[@kittykatz3518]

He tried to sell it though.

[@MsGorteck]

He has shown smaller places, and most actually had people in them, of course they were all much cheaper.

[@dendrien]

anything below 150 square is illigal to rent out as a living space. this is someone making a quick buck without registry.

[@manuelcortes7091]

Cash, I really enjoy all your videos, bro. Lots of fun to watch them. As a true native New Yawker here, I lived in SRO's. Nothing like that 1st one you showed here. I had a hand wash basin and half bath, toilet and shower, no sink, since there is one already and had ample enough space to put a full sized bed and even love seat. Never payed no 1200 for a SRO. The kitchen was shared but I never used it again after some unscrupulous tenants trashed it. Glad I have my one bedroom apt. for 15 years now.

[@justinekessner2645]

DO U KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR VLOG MEANS TO ME, I CAN HAVE A TERRIBLE DAY, JUST TERRIBLE , AND THEN I PUT U ON, AND U BRIGHTEN MY DAY!!!!!

[@justinekessner2645]

THANKS LOL!!!!!!!!!

[@FireCracker3240]

Only in a city like NYC can you rent a closet for $1200 and call it an apartment. It makes me grateful that my apartment is roughly 12 times the size of this one for less money.

[@sherw7635]

I have 5 rooms, a wrap around porch plus attached private laundry/mud room for my full size washer and dryer...dishwasher in my kitchen... $1100...+utils.. VT. These slums and rip offs make me grateful for what I have.

[@Carmadon100]

@@sherw7635 which area do you live in haha

[@sharonhall2277]

I think they're competing with Japan. Same thing going on there.

[@mc4906]

It's actually an unfortunate reality in many major cities all over the world.

[@ShinmegamiPersona]

@Sharon Hall or Hong Kong

[@janish3059]

Someone here wrote that the property owners have lost their minds, but I think whoever rents it are really the ones who have lost their minds. As long as they keep renting these things for those prices the rents will never come down!!

[@aviajarehema7393]

💯💯👌👍🤜👏🔥🎆🎆

[@agustindejesus7398]

Jan, is no one rent them the rent might come down....maybe 20 or 40 dollars. Any difference?

[@mac11380]

Their other option is to live on the street.

[@JanLarson]

The first "apartment" was nothing more than the landlord seeing if he/she could find some dumb sap willing to cough up $1200 for some floor space. He/she will be laughing all the way to the bank every month.

[@aviajarehema7393]

🤣🤣(Laughing so hard, to the point of 😵‍💫for and because of 🤑🤑💸💰--outright GREED!) 😠👿💢💢

[@ElysianAura]

Sadder than that, most people renting that kind of bullshit are preying on foreign exchange students with lots of money

[@KatieBellino]

You can definitely see the greed to cut the rooms up that small. They could do half of the apartments and allow people a little over 100 square feet (still ridiculous), but it's definitely designed to maximize profits.

[@anunearthlychild8569]

With a little skill, multifunctional furniture and folding furniture, you could actually arrange the whole thing so that you can endure it as a student. For $200 or so, but not for the rent that is actually demanded.

[@dendrien]

this ¨apartment¨ is actually illigal to rent out. anything less than 150 square by NY law is illigal to be rented as an apartment. you can also tell that this room actually is a storage room and that it was just decided becoming an apartment without any planing nor work with it. this isnt a stutent dorm heck even the worst jail cell is better mentained than this and bigger. this is for someone very desperate or an addict. holy hell that is sad stuffs rooms like this exists.

[@bradderousse3440]

#2 was my favorite. That balcony was fantastic, and a nice apartment at not a horrible price. #1 is just a no-go.

[@evaaat2650]

“plants”

[@forman208]

How many people can afford $3400 a month for an apartment? Not many

[@jackiegunter6001]

Good morning Cash. The landlord of that 1200$ closet needs to be ashamed of them self. The apartments were nice

[@Zembassi3962]

Yeah (perhaps his name and picture should be shown/exposed so that other people will know what type of G.B.L. CREEP he truly is!)!🤬

[@icantalk710]

Love seeing more Alex, he's cute, haha. Bounces off your energy pretty well, too. Don't love seeing more... questionable listings like that first "apartment"--I really would love some of those growing "plants" the landlords must be smoking to make these prices and square-footage measurements sound reasonable...

[@janebass3372]

Come to London Cash and show the London apartments, wonder how much they would differ! Love your videos, Jane from the UK 🇬🇧

[@dianedenham5259]

There's a neat idea.💡 A traveling guest real estate agent. 😃

[@mariar3767]

😅 Visited London . So expensive , the hostel we used had people living there long term . So they could not even aford that first room in this video and instead rented a hostel bed

[@aviajarehema7393]

@@dianedenham5259 💯💯

[@oneeyeddog3045]

New to your channel. And I just love it. It’s interesting to see how other people live and what their cities have to offer. It’s expensive here in California not that expensive at least not where I live. Love the brick on the second and third apartment wish they would do more stuff like that here. I’m sure those apartments are old but the brick really gives it a lot of charm and warmth.

[@AWordofHope]

These videos I love to watch but makes me thankful for my 2br/2bath apartment for $800 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@michellebloch8970]

Man, watching these videos definitely makes me appreciate my $1200 room in SF. It’s a spacious room (prob about 3-4 times the size of the $1200 closet) in a decent neighborhood. Yes I have roommates but generally have gotten along well with all of them. I have a very nice bathroom right outside my bedroom door that I only share with 1 person and we have a decent size living room (that none of us use) and an actual decent sized kitchen, not those tiny little glorified kids play kitchens. Thanks for making me feel better about my place, Cash! 😄

[@jackieblue787]

My mortgage for a 3BR ranch on half acre is only $742.00. I'll keep my house thanks.

[@sharon7351]

When I begin to complain about my rent of 1800.00mo for a 3bed 2ba 1350sq ft apt - I think of your videos and the prices people have to pay in NYC for much smaller spaces than I have - and I'm grateful to live in the southern US where the cost of living is lower. Love your videos! I hope you and your little family are all well!

[@ladyjustice1474]

Every time I watch his videos and hear the prices for a apartments that are essentially storage closets, I appreciate my 600sqft apartment, and the fact that the rent is about 1,200.

[@Pinkkermit17]

I had a small apartment once, did have a kitchen and a bathroom , no bedroom ,, paid $175 a month when i moved in,, when I moved out it was up to $300

[@stephencooper3006]

Makes my place look like a penthouse.

[@eva5302]

Hahaha, I thought the same !!

[@bigsmitty867]

At some point things are becoming ridiculous.thats when you pack up and leave if you can. And I bet that was a storage room or maintenance room

[@kittykatz3518]

If not, it should be.

[@FarmhouseFelts]

That’s what I thought too. Had to be a storage unit for the building at one time and the owner got greedy, put a closet in and now calls it an apartment. Ridiculous. I get the need to rent to pay the astronomical taxes/mortgage what have you for these properties.. but this? Nope. This is greed.

[@TeatimeThotsWithMorgan]

IF YOU CAN. That's what I appreciate about this post above all. Stuck parents, people who need to remain local for their careers, and those whose increasing rent has made it impossible for them to afford to move aren't afforded that choice.

[@jamesb6080]

Excellent video. More videos with Alex. You two are awesome and likable. 😁

[@ShelterCats]

That $1200 closet had to be a joke, but nope, it’s not April 1st.

[@raquelcastro7241]

SOME-BODY needs to go to jail for renting that first box called an apartment 🙄. Who on this green earth 🌎 would pay anything more than a nickel for that!!

[@aviajarehema7393]

💯💯💯

[@dsparks149]

The first apartment should be illegal😮

[@dendrien]

it actually is. anything below 150 square By NY law is illigal to rent out as a living space.

[@ASprinkleofAnime]

Using an extension cord to plug in an ac can lead to a fire! Who ever designed that apartment made a big error with that

[@ae2948]

They DO make heavy duty extension cords for just this sort of thing. They're made for high watt appliances and tools. That "apartment" IS lousy though.

[@salgaltrixie8265]

@AnimeBoysOnly : whoever CALLED it an "apartment" made a big error as well.However, the Greedy Bastard Landlord (GBL) is raking in over $12K yrly if & when, it's rented consistently. Its not even legal bc it's NOT a real apt, it's really just a place to sleep YET it still can't be categorized as a bedroom either bc to be called a bedrm it MUST have a closet. IMO, it may have formerly been a janitorial/superintendent's supply& tools room, reconfigured into a (haha) living space. The shared bathroom is a completely, totally, indisputable turn--off. No matter how clean a bldg's shared bathrm LOOKS,, its not an ndication that its being sanitized properly by bldg mangemt with bleach, anti--bacterial etc agents. I don't know what word to really use to describe the GBL : unethical, immoral, inhumane?? Nah. Think I'll just stick with GREEDY.

[@aviajarehema7393]

@@salgaltrixie8265 YES! AND: [doing the math here] AT $1200 (per dwelling) x 60 apartments/tenants = $72,000.00 monthly ⁉AND: $72,000.00 x 12 months {taking in steady income from these tenants annually} = $864,000.00 yearly [almost 1 million dollars within one (1) year!🤦⁉ [6 floors/10 'apartments'--actually rooms--on each most likely; and 1 full bath--regular run-of-the-mill type--on each floor; and no amenities whatsoever]; (even though the building is in a prominent locale in Manhattan), this would be considered to many 'highway robbery' but certainly outright GREED on the case of this landlord/rental company/LLC for lack of proper living conditions!‼‼

[@leatharay3565]

I just can’t see it passing inspection

[@KatieBellino]

​@@salgaltrixie8265 Looked up the closet requirement and that's not a national code to count as a room, so likely isn't on the books in NYC. It also did have a closet of sorts to the right (see the cutout area in the wall). Either way, it's criminally expensive for 60 square feet.

[@S.E.C-R]

I would live in that first apartment in a second, tiny spaces like that for some reason give me all the cozy feels!

[@kittykatz3518]

🤢🤢🤢

[@kittykatz3518]

Of a prison cell.

[@PornIsHate]

Landlords love suckers 😂

[@loriannrichardson7644]

I agree, but no kitchen, no bathroom -- I just can't see it. It's really just a small room, not an apt.

[@TeatimeThotsWithMorgan]

I like the cozy feels as much as the next guy, but I need my own facilities. If I were to give those up in the interest of affordable, small space, I don't think I could justify that price. I'd move to another borough with better rent.

[@DreamingRealist]

This is the first time I am literally shocked about an appartment. Even a German jail cell is bigger - and comes for free. ;)

[@kittykatz3518]

And with a toilet.

[@DreamingRealist]

@@kittykatz3518 Haha true!

[@juliyanovomlynska.psycholo3861]

😂

[@Wendy17719]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@anTrshlR]

How do you know …? 😂

[@sweettrubble4635]

It's a disaster when you have to go on a hike to the bathroom.

[@Zembassi3962]

Reminds me of the RAILROAD FLATS which existed as far back as the 1920s . . . . . . . . .

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

If I had a car, I would drive to the bathroom.

[@aviajarehema7393]

@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 🤣😅🤣🤣😂

[@TeatimeThotsWithMorgan]

Can you imagine being sick living there? Explosive diarrhea waits for no one.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

@@TeatimeThotsWithMorgan I can imagine being sick OF living there. Almost as soon as I moved in. People do have diapers and bedpans and crock pots but you might be better off homeless living in a tent in a city where they let you do whatever you want. Life is getting crazier by the nano second.

[@jenniferwong4530]

Watching from Canada. Space up here isn't exactly our biggest problem. I live the city life vicariously through your videos😂

[@lindawarden-burglund9603]

The closet "apartment" is often the amount of space you have if you have to share a dorm room, maybe more if you are in an enforced triple. A loft bed with a futon or chair underneath, and a small dresser is about all you could squeeze in there. Figure out what R & B costs, and it might be cheaper to live there than on campus! Still a ridiculous price!

[@ericalampley480]

Two thoughts- The first one is criminal, and I laughed way too hard at Cash on the stairs! 😂

[@manuelcortes7091]

I am at an age now where I would get winded just reaching the second floor on stairs. My staircase apt days are well behind me.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@manuelcortes7091 I know several people here in New York City who are in their 80's and still running in the New York City Marathon every year -- so there is NO excuse for you being too out of shape to go up stairs to the second floor.

[@socks92]

​@@cathynewyork7918except maybe medical issues. Just because they do the marathon doesnt mean they do it well

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@socks92 This is a nasty comment. How rude of you. Will YOU be able to finish a marathon at age 80? I bet you can't even do a marathon right now. I have run 29 marathons - I bet, even if you're young, i bet you cannot do this. Why not ADMIRE an old person who can finish a marathon, instead of making fun of them if they cant do it as well as a young person can.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@socks92 Why not ADMIRE an old person who can finish a marathon, instead of making fun of them if they can't do it as well as a young person can.

[@kanzaki0001]

#1 is basically a hostel room but without central kitchen

[@aviajarehema7393]

💯💯💯👍🤜🤛👏🔥🔥🎆🎆

[@kittykatz3518]

It's a prison cell.

[@Zembassi3962]

@@kittykatz3518 THIS 👆👆AND THANK YOU!!🏆🏆

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

More like a hostile room.

[@SIPGirl1]

I love watching your videos from my two story home in Georgia. 😅

[@christinebutler7630]

Yep, watching from my 15 acres, 4 bed 2 bath, with barn, workshop, pasture, woods and pond, in NC.

[@Pintexx]

That 1200$ closet is worth maybe 300$ reasonably. Could use it as storage but not livable.

[@aviajarehema7393]

You ain't kidding! Thank you for this. 👏🤞

[@KatieBellino]

Fits a twin bed, had a small space to hang some clothes, and use of a bathroom. Way too expensive, but could work for someone determined to make a dream come true in NYC. There was some space to have a micro-fridge and hot plate too. However, definitely seemed to be designed more for someone who plans to pick-up food a lot of the time, which may apply to a lot of 20-something NYC people.

[@60sbaby608]

If you cook in there, can you imagine frying bacon? You'd be knocked out by the smoke and greasy fumes!!!!😮

[@carolfrazer8067]

One of my first apartments was a shared kitchen/bath. I had about that amount of space, but no closet. Loft beds are the way to go. I put my recliner, desk and dresser under the loft. I also had a mini fridge, microwave and hot plate for my kitchen. I kept a container of fresh water in my space so I could wash my dishes. Just heat the water in the MW and you're good to go. This is how I saved money to buy my first home. My rent was $275 here in SW WI.

[@CL-lo3xr]

$ 275. VS $1200.

[@KatieBellino]

@@CL-lo3xr Yes, I think that's what's most hard to fathom is the $1200 price tag. My 1000 square foot home with a similarly sized, dry basement, detached garage, 1/3 acre of yard, and ROW to a lake is $1140 a month (including taxes and insurance). Granted, if you add in heating oil, it's probably closer to $1300-1400 a month on average, but still, I have way more space.

[@myfirstnamemylastname2994]

You could save faster living in your car or pitch a tent somewhere...The cooking and washing set-up is a lot like camping, clearly. The bathrooms--the thought of bathing or sitting on a toilet in a public campground makes my skin crawl, and you're paying to do that! Admit it; you all have camping toilets in your shoeboxes to use at night. Am I right? I would, if I were desperate enough to move to NYC.

[@irenelacour3486]

Wow 1200 for a closet no thanks. The one bedroom with the nice terrace was the best But that hallway in that building gives me the creeps so long and narrow I expect to see those girls from the Shining appear. Hey Cash have great Sunday. See ya

[@grayzukalooky7395]

Alex has a good sense of space. He is clearly a feng shui master. But for real he is good at that.

[@heatherc2186]

I continue to wonder why I watch these from new Mexico with no intention of living in NY. The guy who does these is unflappable and I like that. I also appreciate that my entire mortgage is about the price of the closet apartment.

[@cathynewyork7918]

You are so happy your mortgage is less than the NYC apartment in this video -- but, sadly, your place is in New Mexico instead of glamorous exciting New York City! I feel sorry for you being stuck out there.

[@orangeymaud489]

@@cathynewyork7918 calm down grandma, maybe you could try not to be such a condescending old bint to other people who don’t envy you and are happy with their lives. So you’re hot for New York, good for you, but you’ve been all over this comment section being obnoxious to other people. Dial it back. New York is a great place but not everyone wants that city and that doesn’t mean their lives are less interesting. There are cities all over the word with exciting shit to do and more affordable. We get the message. You like your life, fantastic but stop being a cow and telling other folk you pity them.

[@joymelton-bollen6383]

I just can't grasp the thoughts of having to leave my apartment to use the bathroom. Especially paying that much. The definition of pure ridiculousness.

[@creneemugo94]

I think we need legislation now, this is ridiculous. The apartment must have a bathroom and kitchen to be legal is what I would advocate for. And rent control is needed.

[@sarak3995]

The music is always on point 😂 love it, cash!

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

Good Morning, New York City dwellers and lovers. Even though "Daddy don't live in that New York City no more" I still love it and that is why I'm addicted to these Cash videos. Do you feel me? But I would expire from claustrophobia in that first "apartment". That is INSANE!

[@nowthatsurban]

Are you referring to yourself as Daddy?

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

@@nowthatsurban Yes I am. My father never lived in NYC. I did back in the 60s! Summer of love and all that. My daughter calls me Daddy, my wife calls me Daddy everyone calls me .....well not everyone. Have a wonderful day as well as a great life! I give this place an F for "Fraid not, pal."

[@we-all-struggle1043]

I thought you were just quoting Steely Dan.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

@@we-all-struggle1043 Yes I was also quoting Steely Dan, one of my favorite musical groups. I am happy to have left the big apple 🍎 quite some time ago. Where I live now, I display a large painting of the New York skyline at night. I don't have to go to New York anymore, they are all coming down here to me in the 6th borough. Sooner or later you will too! And your struggle will be over!

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 What is the 6th borough?

[@suzannemarienau2760]

Cash reminds me of a grown-up Kevin McCallister from Home Alone. Lots of energy, and very entertaining. :) I really like his videos.

[@juliegoldman411]

That's an SRO not an apartment...you know that Cash!

[@aviajarehema7393]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@wadeunderhile7977]

Only 1200 and it comes with a view of the pipe. Wow ! Awesome.

[@Zembassi3962]

[@lannguyen-pu1db]

Will the international food fair make the apartment grow too small for your girth after 5 months?

[@ocean12]

To each his own But those rents are insane I have 80 acres of pasture w a 30 x 60 x12' three sided animal shelter building, plus a 30 x 56 x 12' shed, concrete floor, w a 480 sqft studio w full bathroom in it. Full kitchen x no stove. The taxes and insurance run about $300 / month combined. Its bought and paid for. I dont have twenty restaurants on one block, but no one needs that. Cook. Plus there is zero crime or homeless. And my views are open land. Not another building in sight. No neighbors either. Well, x cows

[@whitneybrown4067]

This is Gonna b so Good CJ🔥🔥🔥👍n Happy Sunday😀….

[@CashJordan]

You too!!

[@Lindarianmusic]

Great video Cash: I rented a room which was three times as large in a converted Victorian home with a huge room and huge walk-in closet with a shared bathroom and kitchen, for about $375.00, in a city, in the state that I'm living in.-Happy trails

[@dave3657]

The first apartment is a facepalm when they didn’t have a place to plug the A/C in. 🤭 With an extension it leaves you only one other outlet.

[@ASprinkleofAnime]

And it's dangerous to use an extension cord for an ac. It's supposed to be plugged in directly into the outlet. Otherwise it could start a fire

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

With an extension it leaves you only one other outlet. Death. By fire.

[@aviajarehema7393]

@@ASprinkleofAnime Sad this 1st one (building) is a complete fire hazard! 😭 {That GBL could get in a lot of trouble for this!}👩‍🚒🚒🔥

[@KatieBellino]

Power strips solve the number of outlets problem, but the extension cord definitely has to be industrial grade to be safe.

[@janeysiegrist5061]

I like this Alex guy. He's fun lol.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

Yeah, Alex understands the saying that brevity is the soul of wit. When Cash asked him what do you suppose they're growing in that greenhouse down there? "Plants" was his one word answer. But we knew what he really meant but dare not say. They might be a client of his.

[@TwospotzArtAndCraft]

The studio I am in now is TWICE that closet. Our guestroom downstairs is the same size..... MOST of my current paycheck would go towards renting a closet. Damn.

[@PornIsHate]

That’s NYC now, a complete ripoff. They sell people on the NYC “brand”, its not worth it.

[@pinkietta]

Watching these videos makes me feel a bit better about having my husband's recording studio in our bedroom!!

[@debrahawley912]

How about a update on the family?

[@naubaucat]

Wow 1200 for a closet, and a shared bathroom yuk. I could visit New York, but not live there since I am claustrophobic these small spaces would make me crazy.

[@awesomeadamfrom2099]

Awesome job Jordan .

[@rachelstreater2816]

Love watching your videos. Very interesting what the rents are NYc. Hi from the UK

[@PopsieLouisiana59]

All of those "going to be empty forever buildings" should be turn into affordable housing. That is what they are doing in the downtown here.

[@bunnyrabbitgirl]

I would rather share the 2nd place that actually has everything you need with an annoying/crazy roommate than become crazy living in the 1st place, so horrible with the frosted window/no natural light, I've seen other tiny SRO's tours around 1k that are acceptable this one is not it!

[@mariar3767]

Yes Share with 1 person , not an entire building 🤐

[@KatieBellino]

Yes, I like to live on my own, but would much sooner have one roommate and split a $2400 apartment.

[@vivianmartin3092]

That first apartment was criminal.

[@patriciafuchs5970]

If you aren’t already crazy that first apartment would put you in Lala land!

[@Zembassi3962]

Plus and also, Apartment #1: The landlord(s) who want $1,200.00 for that are==> GREEDY BEYOND COMPARE! 😡😡

[@williamegler8771]

Nobody is forcing the potential renter to rent the property. Owning rental property is a "FOR PROFIT" business. The landlord has to pay substantial overhead like mortgage property taxes and maintenance. They also have to pay income tax on rental income. If you don't want to pay market rate rent try to qualify for public housing.

[@PornIsHate]

@@williamegler8771 And thats why NYC sucks.

[@reverie6034]

Wow. The SROs I visited when I lived in NYC at least had sinks in the room. Yikes. Just hanging out in Florida in my house by the beach 👀🍿

[@ceecee7879]

For such a great area, apartments are depressing 😢

[@PornIsHate]

NYC is a rip off. What was once an interesting city is no longer worth it, just an overpriced hell hole.

[@chadbaxter5578]

It’s crazy how different people can live. For instance, I live in the Midwest on 5 acres with a 4 bedroom 3,800 sq ft home. Where my closet is bigger than the first apt. For only $1,200 a month mortgage. Although the first apt I ever lived in was maybe 800 sq ft and it worked for Time being. Very interesting.

[@beachbumsailordude]

How far do you have to drive to buy a quart of milk?

[@patriciamoreno5733]

I'll take the nyc apt.

[@tamjg]

I"m not being snarky, but the midwest would be my nightmare.

[@chadbaxter5578]

@@beachbumsailordude four minutes to the nearest main grocery store. Which is a large one with all of your fresh cut meats and fresh produce and things like that. And I am a 12 minute drive from the nearest target/Walmart/homedepot/restaurants. And I am about 35 minutes from the sport team stadiums. Most all of them.

[@chadbaxter5578]

@@patriciamoreno5733 absolutely. Some people that’s what they enjoyed. That’s what they want so by all means I’m glad it’s there for people to grab. Who knows if I lived on the East Coast or even the West Coast in a very busy city a very well could want that for myself as well, but this is what suits me.

[@augeniasestokaite4674]

Speed-just like NYC!! Great editing!!thanks

[@Moonflowers11]

is this even legal?

[@Jhubble515]

a place where the entire floor shares a bathroom, shower, laundry room is just absolutely crazy

[@jonathanwstx]

1,200 bucks 😅😅😅 I’m not exaggerating..the closest in my master bedroom is bigger than that “apartment”

[@davidlemaire6272]

Beautiful 2nd apt. Cozy, quiet, and outdoor space, with laundry, and priced ehh 👍

[@pamelaprince9702]

Sharing a bathroom for that kind of money is insane.

[@sherw7635]

You're hilarious Cash.. 😄.. I love your sense of humor.. 😄.. You DO get it said.. 😄.

[@kleshreen]

That first room has to be illegal. I suppose they can get around the 80-square-feet minimum by not calling it a "bedroom", but that's absurd.

[@dianedenham5259]

Agreed, it is absurd. But not unique as I've seen several videos of people living in similar conditions. I could figure out how to manage without a kitchen, but no bathroom is real hardship.

[@KatieBellino]

Apparently, there was a zoning code removed in 2016 that removes that square footage requirement if all other codes are met.

[@violapastuszyn1349]

My bathroom is bigger than that first place - and my entire apt is only around 500 sf!! Unless they get free food somewhere every day, they're quickly going to lose money on eating out for every meal. You might have some kind of plan for cooking in there but it just would NOT work.

[@Sarmatae1]

I wouldn't rent an apartment in NYC if they offered it to me for $300 a month with rent control and maid service. Hard pass.

[@JessicaDevine-s1u]

I absolutely love it! I would turn this into an amazing studio

[@johnrodgers2171]

I was in a Jail cell once but I didn't have to pay $1200 for it.

[@shayadayan3343]

Even a jail cell has its own toilet and sink

[@sr2291]

I lived in an apt like that once. The manager painted the room light green and the bathroom yellow, so the person living there wouldn't go stir crazy with white walls. I had a mini fridge and a hotplate and cooked. I didn't have all of those awesome restaurants. I wasn't in New York. Wish I was!

[@chicksummer3578]

Oh hellllll no!!!

[@paulsuprono7225]

ALWAYS love your INTRO !;😆 😝 😵‍💫

[@motogig7803]

Charging$1200 for a closet for someone to live in is criminal in my opinion. The guy renting it is skeezey.

[@thelastgamurai]

Being around all these food places the Gamurai wonders how on earth do you manage eating only once a day 🤔

[@GeekyWoman]

Desperation is the only excuse to pay so much for a CLOSET!

[@aviajarehema7393]

This. And thanks.💯💯

[@martinalbert29]

Would be helpful to mention how many people you would be sharing bathroom with on that floor

[@AdrienneMint]

Have a great Sunday everyone! ❤️First comment ! I did it!!!

[@marcelmercure]

11:59 That's not strange. It's just a steam radiator. The valve is in the wrong place but it's normal otherwise.

[@paulsuprono7225]

As I've often said - New York City . . . GREAT place to visit, couldn't afford to live there ! 😬 🇺🇲 😝