Apartment Hunting

At RentHop we pay a lot of attention to rents across the nation (and we're building some great new tools to help you analyze them). To help you understand better some of the personal finance issues related to paying...

Renter's insurance (or tenant's insurance) provides important protection for your property. Sometimes your lease requires it, sometimes not, but it's almost always a good idea. It's also not too expensive -- often only $300 per year, or $25 per...

If you’re renting your home you most likely paid a security deposit when you signed your lease. The security deposit secures your performance under the lease – if you fail to perform your obligations under the lease the landlord...

What neighborhood do you want to live in? It’s one of the first questions you’ll ask when you’re looking for an apartment, and certainly one of the first that a real estate agent will ask. New York has so...

In New York (and nationwide!) apartments and apartment buildings come with an amazing array of amenities. From gyms and pools to private balconies, buildings have come a long way. Improvements in plumbing and electrical wiring allow landlords to put...

One way to classify New York apartments is by when they were built. There are three broad categories: pre-war, which means anything built before the Second World War; post-war, which means post-WWII but before the 1990s or so, and...