are there any cheaper lofts downtown, startin to become more interested in city life, keepin my options open if i move back
i also wanna try living on my own for a bit… moving outta ur parents house into a 200k house is od… not only that but i dunno how long im gonna stay here
915 is quite reasonable. lofts rox0rz, we’re (almost done) renovating one in Roc… you’d KILL to know OUR rent (not telling, it’s a LONG story) - then again sweat equity + lots of homo-depot trips, well… it’s not cheap in the end.
those polished-concrete floors btw?
LOVE IT!.. I can’t wait till i get a real job and find a GF to have an apt with…
I totally agree with you on the APT with a GF thing… never a house with a GF’s name on it…
Awesome AWESOME awesome I love the place…
BTW is that a Viking range?!?!?
a friend of a friend has/had one of these apt’s, i was in it, its realy real f00kin nice… :tup: man
are these the apartments by main st. I built the lofts over in the old L.L. Berger building and they have the same layout
Sorry about that outburst. I live down in the NYC metro area and am currently paying $1200 a month renting a somewhat shitty apartment and still have an hour plus commute to the city. Me and my gf are currently looking at moving closer to the city (ie. Hoboken) and its either we rent a ~600 sf 1br for ~$2000 a month or buy a ~600 sf 1br for ~$400,000. That was why i said what i said.
wow that place is awesome!
Looks really nice!
while buying a house with someone who you arent married to is a BIG no-no, renting an apartment with a gf that you wouldnt be able to afford on your own is also no-no. not to put a negative spin on anything, but always have your ass covered when it comes to getting into financial obligations with another person.
The ellicott lofts are nice, so are elk street terminal. I think you have a nice setup but I would not pay that much at this point for an apt. It is a nice mortgage payment for sure. The novelty would probably wear off soon, but it is cool 
wow yikes. The landlord is rolling in the dough on those things.
915 a month is nuts. Yeah its a pimp pad, but your burning a mortgage payment every month.
I would have gotten a house in my own name. A smallish house, not a 200k house, then sold it when the time came to buy the real house.
Christ, i feel bad every month about paying 435 a month to a landlord.
yeah but for the shithole known as buffalo thats sky high for rent.
Not the highest I’ve seen, some of those condos near the inner harbor are like 2200 a month to rent.
very nice man, ima have to come see the place. i would love to live there but would hate paying for it
915 isn’t bad at all.
My wife used to live in the Bidwell Parkway area of Elmwood. Those apartments go for 1,200 or so.
o thats real nice congrats. and congrats on the NEW JOB
Its a mortgage payment, but by the time you figure in your taxes, your utilities on a 2-3k sq foot house, buying snowblowers, lawn mowers and equipment, buying/planting/growing gardens, remodeling rooms, buying new appliances, putting a new roof on every 10 years, having to mow the damn lawn/snowblow the damn driveway, etc, etc… You have a hell of a lot more into a house than you would into this place.
GRANTED, you are gaining equity, but on the other hand, some people just don’t want to be bothered with all that shit.
$915 to live like a king with spiral staircases, sub-zero fridges, granite counters, etc, with no responsibility of upkeep, no risk in having to buy anything that breaks or wears out, having the driveway plowed in the morining, etc is damn appealing to many people.
Personally I wish they would build some of these apartments to sell. I would be all over that in a heartbeat!
Condo’s are another route to go for this type of thing, but again… choices for condos in Buffalo are slim. The problem is mostly that the city charter offers much better incentives (tax credits, etc) for developers building facilities for rent, rather than facilities for ownership. This needs to change for the city to start seeing apts for sale.