NYC Apartment Search Difficutlies

I'm born and raised in Queens NY and I can't believe how difficult it is to rent an apartment in your own neighborhood. 

I'm not a fan of realtors and I think their fee is beyond ridiculous. I understand people have to make a living but one month's rent to be the middle person is way to much, but whatever. This is how the game works, I needed to be robbed in order to get a place to live. 

My favorite thing has to be the fact that you tell them your price range and they insist on showing you an apartment that's a bit higher than your price range. Why ask for a price range when you're going to show me something I didn't really ask for. Then they tell you well if you bond with the landlord they might lower the rent for you. So right away this is all a joke from the beginning. 

My thing is how did becoming a renter get to this point. My parents owned a house and we rented, but we never asked people "how much is in your bank account". My own mother doesn't know that information why would I give a complete stranger knowledge of that. I'd like to know how much is in the landlord's bank account so I know that they can pay their mortgage and that while I'm renting I'm guaranteed a roof over my head. Then because I don't want to disclose how much is in my bank account which is no one's business but my own the realtor suggests that we pay 2 months security so they feel that we're more financially secure. So that 's 4 months rent because I have to pay the realtor too. If I wanted to pay 4 months rent up front I rather buy my own house instead of renting. 

Also just because people have money it doesn't mean they'll be good tenant. I mean let's be for real now. Look at these hipsters, yuppies, trust funds whatever you want to call them. Prior to them invading our cities I've never heard of bed bugs my whole life. I remember there were tics at Washington Square Park in the Village and they said not to sit on the grass, but other than that I've never heard of such a thing. Now if you think you've heard it all, well I save the best for last. I've heard of a realtor saying the landlord requires a blood test to rent the apartment so that they know the people they rent to don't have diseases.  

I wish I could win the lotto and buy up a bunch of buildings and take over these neighborhoods that have changed so much. I'm shocked landlords aren't asking the rentor for their first born child. The renting business is so ass backward and hopefully I do find a place soon and on that note I feel a lot better after my ranting episode. 

Mariano Bobble Head Disaster

As most of you know last Thursday 9/30 was Mariano Bobble Head Night. What a joke that was.

First of all my boyfriend surprised me with the tickets because he knows I'm a big Yankee fan. It was a really sweet surprised. I usually hate surprises, but he did really good with this one. With him being a big Mets fan he did a really good thing by getting these tickets.

So after work that day I ran out so I could get to the game on time. I didn't even hear about the voucher's for the bobble heads. I wasn't concern with checking Facebook or Twitter. So since I work in the Wall Street area I took the 1 to the D because the 4 train always gets messed up whenever I take it going to a game. The 1 train got me to the D in no time. So when I got to the D everything was going fine and I thought wow for once I'm going to make the game on time. Boy was I wrong. When we got to 145th street the conductor said "Next time 161st street Yankee Stadium". Why is it that when we got to Yankee Stadium the stop was skipped and we went to the next express stop. How do you skip a stop? Obviously someone wasn't paying attention to their job. So instead of getting to the game on time I got there by 7:20PM thanks to the MTA.

Once I met my boyfriend he told me how crazy everything was and that there were no bobble heads, but he got a voucher for them. So I was like okay can't be that bad later on. So we got our food and ate then we went to our seats. At the game we got Nathan's and of course we got an order of their cheese fries. I swear their cheese fries are the best!!! Once we got to our seats about twenty minutes afterwards my boyfriend saw someone with a bobble head. Turns out they had just arrived so my boyfriend said he rather get them now instead of after the game. That was at the bottom of the 3rd inning. He didn't get back till the top of the 7th inning and that was about an hour and a half. H e was beyond pissed off. He said no one knew what they were doing and everything was disorganized. I was so happy that I didn't decided to go get them with him because I was tired and had a long day. I wouldn't have been a happy camper if I was on that line.

My boyfriend vowed to never come back to Yankee Stadium and I couldn't blame him. The marketing team should've implemented a better system. I've never seen or heard this kind of choas happen at any other stadium. I guess there's a first time for everything, but it sucks we had to experience it. Instead of having a nice date night, we weren't even with each other for most of our date.

I'm glad to hear that people who waited for those bobble heads will be getting free tickets to a game next year. If the fans weren't going to get anything back that would've been more messed up. Hopefully something like this doesn't happen again on any promotional night.

Daily Blog: My Favorite 2013 Summer Memory

This summer has been very busy and hectic. My favorite summer memory has to be taking my baby sister to the Yankees game. I had taken her to a Sunday game and the Yankees were playing the Detroit Tigers. We've been to the Yankees game a bunch of times before, but this time around it just seemed more special.

Since Goldstar is my one of my favorite websites to get discounted tickets that's where I went to purchase them. I bought tickets in the 400 section. Since with Goldstar you don't know where you're sitting our chances of sitting in the nosebleeds were 50/50. The tickets we got were in the nose bleed section in section 413. If you're afraid of heights these seats would be a problem for you.  We were all the way up there. (The last time I sat up there was two years ago for The Big Four Concert.) Although the view was still great we wanted to be a bit closer to the game.

By the bottom of the 5th inning we went to get dipping dots. I got cookie dough and my sister decided to get rainbow. My sister is nine years old and she thought it tasted good. I thought it had no flavor whatsoever and wasn't much of a fan of it. While eating our dipping dots I noticed that the outfield section in the 300s were pretty empty. There were plenty of seats there. The only bad thing was the sun was out in full effect and you would roast sitting that section. I ran it by my sister and she was all for it, but I reminded her that the security guard might not let us. She insisted we still try anyway.

So after walking to the other end of the stadium we got there and I asked the security guard if we could sit in the empty seats. At first he seemed very skeptical about letting us sit there, but then he gave in and said go ahead. My sister and I were thrilled and we sat there the remainder of the game.

The fun didn't stop there though. After watching the Yankees win, we went out for an early dinner at a sushi restaurant in Queens. The restaurant is right across the street from Queens Center Mall. We went to Tomo Japanese Cafe (89-14 Queens Blvd) which is one of my family's favorite sushi restaurants to go to. During dinner we had the whole nine years, appetizers, there sushi rolls each and dessert.

It was a very eventful day and one that we both enjoyed so much. Since my baby sister is so much younger than me I love to spoil her whenever I get the chance and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Daily Blog: Manicure Monday- Nails for Summer

Nail salons make money all year round, but they make tone more in the summer. Since more people are out and about people have the need to look good. To some people it’s part of their lifestyle and to have unique nails can almost be a status statement. No one wants to have the same nail design as someone else.

Nail salons are hiring some of the best just so they can give their clients their very own customized nail design. Most of these nail salons are Uptown. Such nail salons are Nail Lounge (4752 Broadway, New York), Nails On 7 (2449 7^thAve Bet. 142^nd & 143^rd Street, Harlem), and Nail Factory & Hair (2421 Westchester Ave).

Nail Lounge has been put on the map by such reality stars from MTV’s Washington Heights and some of the ladies from Mobwives New York. Nails on 7 has been around for years and some of their customers are the ladies of Love & Hip Hop New York. Nail Factory & Hair is an up and coming nail salon that does great nails and hires great stylists. These nails salons also offer other services as well which is more convenient for their customers. Getting your nails and hair done all at once saves travel time and it’s just a lot easier to have it done all at one place. You can see the work of these nail salons on their Instagram page.

A lot of the designs for summer are bright colors. Neon’s are still great and if you want a more subtle color corals and pinks do the job. You can also dress up your nails with bows, flowers, Swarovski crystals and etc. It’s almost as if there were no limits to the kind of nail designs you can do especially for summer. I prefer bright colors in the summer time because I want my nails to be seen. I love bright greens, pinks and oranges. One of my favorite summer colors is white. It pops out and people can see your nails from anywhere.

Sometimes though it’s a little more difficult to get crazy with your nail design because of your job or school, but you can always try a reverse French manicure with colors that are soft, so that it’s more appropriate. Also having a regular French manicure is always a classic look that you can never go wrong with.

Below are a few pictures from the mentioned nail salons. Enjoy!!!