What exactly is distinctly new haven or ct???

very good stuff for sure, not very distinctly "new haven" in any way, though.

Strange Ways has good stuff

Oh well, I guess that will happen again, because I'm not going to get rid of my dogs. I am aware that they complicate things.

Just a followup question:

I was just talking to a landlord about a property, and he wanted first and last, and for us to carry 300k renters insurance, plus a $5100 security deposit. Is nearly $8000 basically what we should be expecting to plonk down for a $2550/m place with no utilities or services covered?

Please be kind and answer the question (i know i know, this is reddit) we have been homeowners for 20 years previously, so I just want to know if this is standard practice.

(for those who are saying "but the dogs!" this is separate from the pet addition. I am leaving out that detail because it is not relevant, and is actually quite low.)

i certainly wasn't going to downvote this, what's with that assumption?

Would you like to say the quiet part out loud?

It’s all about NIMBY. Only expensive housing gets built. Cheap housing? NIMBY!!! Most Americans don’t wanna live around “poor” people which is code for black. Your own racism is keeping you a wage slave. Downvote me all day I’m just telling them truth.

Because you keep voting for politicians that refuse to stop printing money. You need to write your congresspeople and tell them you’ll vote them out if they don’t stop.

Yea I’m sorry to hear you are having a tough time. Unfortunately the peanut gallery is right. The dogs are a chokehold on finding a rental. It’s a pipe dream already in CT finding a decent two bedroom+ that isn’t in the absolute worst neighborhood, and they just suck rental application fees too. We were fortunate to find a 2 bedroom in the shoreline but my dog had to be re homed locally to my fathers and he takes care of him. It’s sad but my family is safe. Good luck friend.

Haha I saw those.

This is so true. i've found so many really nice 1 beds, student rentals, studios, etc. Were I 30 years younger.

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i do really cringe whenever this topic comes up simply because it CAN get very racist very fast, but the fact of the matter is that this is a thing that is happening. it's not about "chinese people", it's about a very specific thing that is happening within a very specific class group coming to US colleges from a very specific country.

Na not this time actually. I was in Edgewood on Pendleton St (the shitty side) and it was just a young Jewish man that bought it to live in it and rent it. Definitely no Yalies in my hood lol

I’m just still pretty sour that my GF and I were kicked out… we really liked the apartment. And we went from having 1200sqft to having 650 sqft :(

Fair but when the ads are exclusively in Chinese it’s not a racist observation as much as stating facts.

fucking RAD i love it

I agree it definitely takes some weeding out since there's a lot of scammers. Just the other day I saw someone post an apartment for $1300 but the photos were stolen from ninth square apartments downtown and their rent starts at 1700+. Also too good to be true rents in the proper of Wooster Square lol

you're getting sniped because when a landlord has to pick between two very nice families trying to rent their property, and one family doesn't have dogs, they win. Doesn't matter what you're being told, it's just something working against you. People will tell you what you want to hear after the fact.

The chinese government is currently doing a very good job of state-backed -capitalist espionage in this country. It’s amazing how efficient coorporate spying is when it’s backed by a government.

These sponsored students are the next wave of how communist China is fighting the war against the west … by the eventual stealing of trade secrets . Foreigners blend in perfectly in the tech sector and at universities so 🤷🏼 Westerners could never get away with it even if our government was to try and do the same type of state sanctioned espionage, we are at a severe disadvantage .

He’s a Turkish immigrant who has built a thriving empire and whose son went to Yale. He’s like the American dream come to life.

I think like 6-9% of UConn is international students now or something like that. They keep raising the fees for these types of undergrads and they don’t get a cent of aid either. That brings in soooo much revenue.

FB Marketplace has been hit or miss. There's a lot of wannabe landlords on there multiple listing the same property under different names with differing rates, or having no idea how the market works.

We are right on the edge of Hamden on State right now. It's a nice area and we're looking there.

These apartments are being built with the Chinese grad student market very specifically in mind. Chinese grad students in the US provide 2 billion in fees alone to universities, and spend money unlike any other demographic. They are sponsored by the Chinese government and personal wealth and are free to spend insane sums of money at zero personal risk/loss.

Me relaying a fact does not make me racist. This is just one more evil of capitalism.