Sentences with phrase «life of apartment living»

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The relationship has reversed, and the gap between apartment living and the prospect of backyard barbecues has never been wider in Canada's cities.

«We had built two major ops buildings on Olympic Boulevard with [Executive Life], we had a portfolio of nearly 10,000 apartment projects around the country we had acquired with them, we were overseeing 570 [general services administration] and post-office buildings with them, and we had about 800 co-ops in New York City with them,» Mark explains.

Even in the capital city of Phnom Penh, it's easy to find a two - bedroom, one - bathroom apartment with separate living room, kitchen, and balcony in a nice area for as little as $ 350.

The city, which famously inspired J.K. Rowling to start writing about the Boy Who Lived, is now home to an apartment that looks like it was plucked straight out of Hogwarts.

Entrepreneur met with Tollin in his New York City apartment to discuss the life and leadership lessons he learned following these men, and what the process of working on a quarter century - long project taught him about creativity, focus and the pursuit of one's true passion.

In a profile of him published in the Guardian back in 2007, when Schwarzman was known as the «King of Wall Street» and lived in a 35 - room Manhattan apartment with 13 washrooms and 11 fireplaces, writer Andrew Clark quoted an interview of Schwarzman describing how he approaches a big negotiation.

While roommates are often thought of as a reality that recent college graduates and early 20 - somethings have to endure, there is an increasing number of New Yorkers sharing apartments with friends, lovers and sometimes strangers, deep into their adult lives.

For instance, «someone has to pay for a mover and cough up the security deposit because you're not necessarily going to get it back from the original apartment if the other person is staying,» says Wynne Whitman, attorney at the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP and coauthor of Shacking Up: The Smart Girl's Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned.

All of the apartments at 1409 Fulton Street, where Rojas toured a unit, were one - bedrooms that could be converted to two bedrooms by throwing up a wall between the living room and kitchen.

Unlike many of his peers, Sarafa's major life decisions are less about renting an apartment versus buying a home, and more about where his next destination will be.

The notion of a startup founder with student - loan debt evokes the clichéd image of a Silicon Valley millennial fresh out of college and living in a shared apartment, playing video games and feverishly pitching angel investors to fund his (or her) next «big idea» — from 3D printing to the next Facebook.

Wealthy Argentines live in opulent apartment buildings or in gated communities, wear designer clothes, and drink espresso out of tiny cups.

Or potentially spending the rest of your life sleeping on the floor of your friend's apartment, surrounded by fast food sacks and semi-clean clothes.

And if you're living in a small apartment or sharing the space with other people, the more clever and out - of - the - way the better.

Instead, she and her family will live in a four - bedroom heritage home in the north end of Halifax where their monthly mortgage payments are roughly half the cost of renting a two - bedroom apartment in Vancouver.

My apartment had a lot of extra space, and I was living in a shoddy old building where the noise and heat wouldn't be much of a problem, so it seemed like a good match.

People living in apartments and condominiums have a new, more secure way to receive Amazon packages instead of having their deliveries tossed in lobbies and in hallways.

Riverside's above - average cost of living is largely driven by housing, but entrepreneurs looking to rent a small apartment won't pay much more than the national average.

Hundreds of New Yorkers, like others nationwide, have been making a few extra dollars by using sites such as AirBnB, Crashpadder, Roomorama, and Craigslist to sublet pullout sofas, living rooms, and whole apartments.

Mayor Pro Tempore John Duran says more than three - quarters of West Hollywood's residents live in apartments, most of them rent controlled.

Chances are that anyone seeking a place to live in and around the trendy Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Mich., eventually will come across property investment and management company Urbane Apartments.

I live on the top floor of our apartment, so unusually warm temperatures are a real problem, even during the winter.

I had a few friends living in the Bay Area, plenty of work, and I was able to lock in a rent - controlled apartment prior to my arrival.

Buffett, notoriously thrifty, paid even less than the estimate for housing, living on the sixth floor of an apartment building across the street from the university.

A multi-family apartment owner and developer that focuses on providing professionally managed workforce housing designed to enable middle - market renters to enjoy the benefits of living in Boston at affordable rents.

Which brings us back to the dubious claim that 90 % of families in apartments of a certain age in Toronto are on the verge of living under a bridge.

For example, in the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. area, you need to earn $ 16.40 per hour and in New York City $ 22.90 per hour to afford an efficiency (or small studio) apartment, according to Looking Up at the Bottom Line author Richard Troxell's calculation of the universal living wage.

Many people in the world's largest cities already live in tiny apartments, and one way to save on costs for a space similar to Hill's is to cut down on the number of alternatives needed, says Lloyd Alter, managing editor of Treehugger.

Hill changed his life to fit inside a 420 - square foot apartment and gave a popular TED talk in 2011, «Less Stuff, More Happiness,» where he previewed the concept of the LifeEdited apartment.

Typical freelancers, for the purposes of this experiment, are single adults with no children, moderate living expenses and a 1,000 - square foot apartment, «which is a good sized one - bedroom in most cities.»

He shares a one - bedroom apartment with his boyfriend, paying $ 1,400 a month to live within walking distance of Balboa Park and the zoo.

A lot of people lived in the same apartment complexes too — especially the college kids — so when we weren't on the clock, life for us wasn't unlike the freshmen dorms.

A handsome new $ 5 million office / apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

Since 2006, living costs have roughly doubled in the Swedish capital, and the current average square meter price of 95 000 crowns for an apartment in the central districts ($ 11,800) surpasses European megacities such as Paris.

The average rent for an apartment in San Francisco is $ 4,023 a month, according to the Cost of Living Index.

We lived in a one bedroom apartment, ate at home most of the time, walked the park as a recreation, did staycations instead of vacations, invite friends over instead of going out (invest in a good margarita machine).

The sample renters insurance policies we gathered included $ 30,000 worth of coverage for a single 27 - year old male, living in a multi-unit apartment.

I regret selling my last house so much, because now I am forced to live in an overpriced apartment full of boxes.

* $ 100k deposit on a $ 500k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 80k deposit on another $ 400k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 30k in stocks (see above for allocation) * $ 24k three months emergency fund placed in mortgage offset account (3 months of two mortgage repayments plus strate levies for both properties $ 18k, 3 mths living expenses $ 6k) * $ 16k left - > save that for building up another deposit / down payment for either a studio / 1or2 br apartment or a house

As Jim Gault says of the beach town where he lives, «A few single retired people live here on $ 1,200 a month and they rent a modest one - or two - bedroom room apartment for $ 400 to $ 600.

REITs invest in all types of commercial real estate, from hotels to apartments to assisted living facilities, storage facilities, office buildings, industrial space, retail space and more.

As the flashy ringleader of a massive $ 23 million auto insurance fraud, Felix Filenger drove around in a Bentley, doled out kickbacks from a black briefcase stuffed with cash and lived in a $ 7,500 - a-month oceanfront apartment.

Located on Narcoossee Road near prestigious Lake Nona in Orlando, Reserve at Beachline is a place of distinction for those looking for the finer side of apartment life.

For example, consider two roommates who split the cost of furniture for an apartment and needed to file a small claim for the furniture in their living room.

My home was a tiny studio apartment; I didn't have television; I brought my lunch to work; I lived off a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

If your new home has any detached living units like a basement apartment, you can also propose to find a tenant and add the estimated rent as part of your income in the application.

After years of apartment living, I yearned for my own space and wanted to distance myself from that nosy neighbor with an ear pressed to his side of my bedroom wall.

Some 63 percent of single family households include children; only 34 percent of apartment renters have children living with them.

One former worker at the Genesis plant is 32 - year - old Marie - Bénie Clerjo, a mother of three sons who lives in Solino, a slum of tottering shacks and crumbling apartment blocks.

Jeanne would thus have an ongoing source of cash to live on in her last years, and the lawyer would get an apartment cheaply, with no money down, in return for accepting the uncertainty as to when he would take possession.