So I just published a video with Ryan
Serhant giving you a tour of a $10.8 million dollar luxury apartment in
Soho. In this video you’ll see what type of apartment you can get if you want to
live in New York but you don’t happen to have ten million dollars lying around. My good friend and business partner Mike Sheffer is kindly giving us a tour of
his Brooklyn apartment and shown us what it’s really like living in New York City
on a budget. Welcome to Brooklyn this is my three-bedroom two-bathroom one
thousand square foot apartment with a spacious living room functional kitchen
private outdoor deck and back terrace all for a grand total of thirty six
hundred dollars per month of which I pay $999. You
are watching this video because you want to see what it’s like to live in New
York City for only one thousand dollars per month the key is to find multiple
uses for a single space and that’s kind of the theme of what I’m going to show
you today starting off the first room of this apartment is a dining room that
also doubles as a pantry this wooden shelf actually didn’t come with the
apartment New York City apartments aren’t known for having abundant storage
spaces we built and installed this shelf to house all of our spices as this open
pantry here we also installed a series of hooks along the bottom to house all
the pots and pans for easy and quick access so now we’re gonna move from the
dining room into the kitchen and you can see this is a pretty typical New York
kitchen it’s small but it’s functional we’ve got your standard appliances
stainless steel sink oven fridge shots a rarity for New York City a fully
automatic dishwasher you do not know how rare it is to have a dishwasher in an
apartment for only $1000 a month this is huge and we have a tiny little bit of
countertop space just enough for one person to really use it at a time
another tip to save money is to make your own coffee I buy fresh roasted
beans every week and every morning I measure out just enough beans for
exactly one cup grind them up and then make the best damn pour ever coffee
you’ll ever have in your life this is not bad pretty standard living room
couple things that maybe are a little bit odd we have a bike station here for
bikes and even though I lived out Brooklyn I ride my bike basically
everywhere there’s three bridges that connect Brooklyn to Manhattan so getting
between boroughs is pretty quick but when I get home my bike comes into my
apartment with me which may seem strange but bike theft is a huge problem in New
York City it’s reported that around 15,000 bikes are stolen every single
year right next to the bike station tucked away in this corner is the guitar
rack and this is where I keep all of my guitars acoustic electric and when I’m
in the living room usually I’m only impaired to play guitar but as I said
before we kind of double utilize the space so this also doubles as the guest
bedroom if someone comes over stays the night fold this out we have a spare
bedroom just like that and now we’re gonna go to the private outdoor backyard
deck the only outdoor space is you and I have seen it in New York City have been
these multimillion-dollar apartments with private outdoor spaces it doesn’t
exist in Manhattan unless you got the big box true if you want a private
outdoor space in New York City Brooklyn is the place to be this feels like a
huge deck well it’s actually just about the size of the entire apartment that is
ridiculous to have basically your apartment outside it’s amazing we do
barbecues we actually used to have a hot tub back here go away that’s another
story for another time this isn’t the only outdoor space that we have here
this is the rooftop this is a common space shared by everyone in the building
it’s got two separate levels we have lights benches tables plenty of room all
provided by the building for everyone to use this rooftop has one of the most
breathtaking views of Manhattan I mean look at this it is true one of the
overlooked benefits of living in Brooklyn is that you can see the entire
city skyline which is something that you actually need to leave Manhattan to see
let’s head back inside and I’ll show you my room and this is my bedroom not bad I
mean for $1,000 a month this bedroom does seem bigger and it is bigger than
most apartments you’ll get in Manhattan however there’s a trade-off there are no
closets in this apartment at all Evon zero every room that you’re in is just a
box with four walls there’s no closet because there’s no closets that actually
makes the room smaller because you have to build an entire closet
you built this I built this myself it’s a little messy up there that’s kind of
odds and ends go where I keep my suitcases all sorts of things that I’m
not really sure what to do it is a onesie that’s a onesie yes is that
actual it’s a onesie with fire trucks on it let’s just keep going to the tour you
got to maximize every inch of space you have so if you look over here more hooks
all my hats immediately right here all my shoes on a shoe rack behind the door
all my coats jackets towels and sweatshirts hooks hooks hooks in keeping
with the theme of maximizing space and kind of doubling up on functionality my
bedroom also serves as my office the room is kind of split in between we have
the bed sleeping arrangement on one side and the office business side on the
other my people are probably wondering how are you able to pay on nine hundred
and ninety nine dollars per month to live in this space that you just showed
us Wow you’re right this is not a realistic place to only spend about a
thousand dollars a month you can’t get something like this in New York City for
$1,000 a month you can’t the key is roommates generally speaking in New York
City each roommate will pay a different
amount per month depending on the size of the room and what features they get
for example Derek’s room here is the largest bedroom and he has his own
private bathroom he pays a bit more every month to balance out that extra
square footage and private bathroom that he gets and then our third roommate here
also pays into that total rent which leaves only 999 dollars left for me to
pay each month so if you found some value from this apartment tour make sure
to subscribe for more high quality New York City videos and with that I will
see you in the next one put it right here in the middle to watch
another New York City apartment tour this time a multi-million dollar place
Amazing!! Thank you for sharing my apartment with the world. See you on Instagram 😘
Dallas Texas, where you can have an apartment with 2 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, walk in closets, nice livingroom, dinning room, and Kitchen for just $700/mo. With one roommate: $350/mo. 🤷♂️
You are renting a room for a grand, not an apartment.
A train ride north to Yonkers gets you a studio for 1500, electric included, and no roommates.
How do you find roomates in NYC like if you are just moving there and don't know anyone? I would like to try it.
That’s amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Stopped watching after 0:54,what a disgusting regime you support!! An apartheid racist state!! Disgusting!
For a european it's funny how he's talking about the closet. In europe, especially in germany, there usualy are no built in closets. A closet is a standard piece of furntiure here. If you want to rent a place, you have think about a closet. For some people actually the closet is something like a statussymbol or at least a very personal matter. It's fun to see the differneces.
And btw: for 3600 bucks/month you could rent some top notch living space in Berlin, Frankfurt or even Munich. Although Munich got very expensive in the last couple of years. In general the price/sm2 increased even in smaller towns.
seems awesome but how do they deal with aliens invading US every month or so?
1000 bucks is not cheap
This is NOT NYC this is a Borough .. BROOKLYN and he said it was 3,600 .He pays 1000, that’s what he pays for HIS ROOM, the rest is SHARED Why the deception? Not cool 😕
I love it. new York is awesome.
Dude I pay 400 a month and that's expensive to me lol
Does .. does he not have a bathroom ?
The best part of these videos and people showing off them living in new york is that i rented out almost the legal equivalent of a mansion (5000 Square feet) for 2k a month. That came with 6 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 living rooms and massive kitchen. As well as the standard 3 car garage, deck and massive backyard.
I have no idea why people like living in new york, sure i guess if you can afford it then why not, but you get so much more value literally anywhere else. Like i said, i pretty much lived in a mansion for double the cost of this guy having his own tiny bedroom, and still having to share everything else.
Nope. Toooooo small. Looks Incomplete!
And I’m complaining about LA, rather stay here omg
Nice…
For only $100 more you can get a studio in the Bronx and live alone 🤷🏽♀️
God dammit I don't even make $999 a month… Cheap labour country problems
nice for 900$ for one bed room
I like this bike station
No privacy if you want to bring home a girl. Oh I forgot he has to share. GTFOH! I don't understand why people who moves here from other states that are WAY! more affordable and realistic to live in this shit hole to share a space or live in a broom closet. SMFH
No
One must first have a job making at least $100,000 a year. Then look.
i feel so lucky that i may only earn about $1000/month but still manage to purchase a house near the capital city of jakarta, so i don't need to pay the rent monthly
I hope that stupid ass city gets drowned by the rising sea level
Same as the stand
Is it cheap cuz it includes Israel flag ?
That place doesn't seem safe.
"Live in this 1,000 dollar a month apartment for only 3600 dollars a month"
I think your math is a bit off there.
Nice Now I have a plan for my Future😍
999$ is a lof for an apartment in a western country wtf
weird to see the host live in NYC but be good friends with David Dobrik who lives in LA
1 thing if you're in NYC…
Dont Forgot your wallet…
u got a big back yard
Whoa! And I thought I had problems. I live in Berlin and pay for a 1,5 room apartment with 45 sqm (485 ft²) about 430 Euro, live at the same time still in a relatively beautiful district. Earn about 2000 Euro net for a clerk job I'm currently doing.
Thank God our senate is now taking action against the permanent rent increases. We are afraid that our city will eventually become as expensive as NY, London or Paris. We've already kicked Google's ass here.
Confused, why would you choose to overspend on housing. It doesn’t seem intelligent to live this way
🤔 you have a futon for another roommate temporarily or for a temple space 🙂.
999 dollars a month for a cracker jack box is on a budget?
Where in Brooklyn is this, if you don't mind sharing?
Why is every video a LIE? This is not a 1000 dollar apartment its a freaking ROOM. Any moron can find a room for 1000, stop the click bait shit
Ahhh $999 because of 2 other roommates…
Paying per space ? It’s not a concept that I’ve ever heard of where I’m from in Montreal.
If the rent is $3 600 we divid by the number of people who lives there.
So if there’s 3 people, we’d all be paying $1 200 🤷🏽♀️
Wtf in Indonesia u can rent a HOUSE for 350$/month.
Lol I pay 800 for a 1000 square foot apartment with a full kitchen and a dishwasher is standard. I also live in grand Rapids with is a awesome city. NY is overrated.
Yo is that davids friend
I'll never understand why people wanna pay thousands of month to live in a prison cell in a jam packed city. That would be hell for me. The noise,the traffic,the millions of people. It's like you never get any privacy. Why not save all that money and buy a house?
I too make my own coffee every morning, my very own superblend, tiny accurate scale, I make whooping 5 deciliter, and thermocup
Best "craft" I engage in the whole day
Come to Dallas. So many huge luxurious apartments for less than $1000. Many jobs too
I am lucky I pay $877 for a large studio apartment with a separate kitchen and dining room in a decent part of the Bronx. Oh and I live alone not sure if can live with roommate. People are way too strange
third roommate managed to have 对联 in his room lol impressive
Long strory short: Shared Living, Roomates… About 3k appartment for 3 people. 1 Room for everyone + neat shared spaces outside the Manhattan.
Let's be clear its 999 FOR HIS ROOM
Nice Vidéo
I lived in Manhattan for 18yrs, this man is living in a MANSION!!!!!!!
By the way, your title is a complete LIE! Shame on you, liar!
Love the Israeli flag brother, represent!
I'm a native new Yorker born and raised there when I was a kid growing up in New York around the early sixties new York was once the cheapest places to live I can't believe what they charge today it has to come from city and state council real estate politicians etc that raised all the high cost of living there the citizens should have protested the extreme cost of rents and home sales instead of letting these raise everything it's the politicians and the real estate gangsters that got away with it
Cool place
I wish I had that much space at my place lol! Meanwhile in Isla Vista, CA you'd pay that same price just to share a room with someone. Those tips on how to maximize your space were helpful though!
New York is so expensive, I pay 187 usd for one bedroom one bathroom apartment including electricity and water bills, But i live in Gizan, Saudi Arabia so…
If I have a roommate, why am I paying $1000 a month?
I live in NYC and pay $1000 for my studio apt and I got so much more space than this app 😭😭😭 with no roommates
You could get luxury apartment with that money in Jakarta
That's a share house… What a joke
very nice apartment i love the new apartment building i moved into 5 days after the building was built i have central air conditionning which i love new stove new fridge new every thing elevator laundry room on the first floor 1300 dollars a month rent one bedroom apartment what i love the most about it is the tax payers pay for it im in a much better program then section 8 my program pays higher rent then section 8 so i live in a much much better apartment its great living in new building just built a few days ago every thing works properly and there are no bugs i love my ssi check i love my food stamps i love staying home every day the call me the lazy polock when i moved in my landlord has the nerve to tell me i could not bring my old mattress and box spring into the building so i threw it in the garbage and bought a new bed he was very paranoid of bedbugs the landlord was at the entrance door checking out my furniture the day i was moving in central air conditionning adn elevator makes an apartment one thousadn times better to live in
Are you Sam Shaffer’s roommate?
איפה המזוזה?
I soooo want to tidy his room. "You build this!" They talk about building his closet like it's a masterpiece of architecture, so funny
$1000 for the Brooklyn apartment seems like a really good deal but that depends on which neighborhood it is in. Brooklyn is a big place and there is a big difference between the neighborhoods.
People are crazy. They pay 999$ for a small flat like this but they want to save money with making their own coffee wtfffff
Thank you fir sharing. I’m in the process of moving to New York and these videos are very helpful. The roommate route appears to be the way to go.
I’d rather pay $3600 a month than have roommates. How else am I supposed to walk half naked around the house without freaking everyone out?
I would steal a lot of bikes 😂
This video title should be changed bro. We love you anyways … cheers
I keep thinking omg that sounds so expensive.. but these figures actually aren’t because I’m in England. $1000 is only £824!
Why 999$ why not 1000$ they put 999$
Why not Bronx?
Hahaha vlog squad
I need this other one like his…
From living with parents to living with strangers eh.
Minimalist? not really….but Brooklyn is not NYC…II just lo live in there….t is a nice place….
Clickbait !!!! Very misleading . Pays 1000 a month because of roommates . Apt is really $3600
Can we use all things which we see there
In Germany cologne you can get a 47sq apartment for 2700€ wow I didn’t realise that my city was that god damn expensive
lol $3600 is not cheap. The title made it sound like $999 was the whole apartment. Need to get out of the hipster areas for that. Williamsburg is overpriced and that apartment the rent will go up every year.
That guy looks like he’s stuck in his college days…
That’s mike from the Vlog squad lmao???
Fuck having roomates
free palestine
Stop saying the apartment is $1.000… it’s 3.600 and four people are cramped in this place 😂
Also need $144,000 total income
That’s a steal of a deal.
No matzah balls? What kind of jew are u?
Its very very highly costed for me were i come from 999$ i can afford a 3× bigger than that ..😮😮
yeah a lot of people who are outside of nyc just dont get how expensive nyc is lol.
I mean , if I get 10 roommates i can pay 300 /m … be real here
There is some world class acting in this video
I this the dude that's sometimes in David Dobriks vlog.
AND IF THE OTHER ROOMATES CANT PAY THEIR SHARE…YOUR ASSED OUT. LOL. VIDEO IS MISLEADING…WHAT DOES 1000 DOLLARS A MONTH GET YOU OF YOUR OWN.