Monthly Archives: August 2010

5 New York City Apartments We All Know and Love

Another post by a guest writer, please let me know how you like this one. My girlfriend is a big fan of at least two of these TV shows, so she enjoyed reading this post. Hope you will too. -Eric Ah, New York. A city of glitz, glam, spacious apartments, well-coordinated wall art, and apparently [...]

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Rental Insurance for Apartments – Do All Renters Really Need It?

The number one question renters must ask themselves: what are the chances your apartment will have a break-in? Flood? Explode? Chances aren’t likely, but when you’re looking into rental insurance, you’re betting that something terrible will happen to your home. When you move into an apartment for rent, (found on PadMapper, naturally) every insurance broker [...]

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New Info Bubble! Keyboard Controls!

Dayum, you might say. Those are some sweet updates. What updates, you ask? Well, the info bubbles now have tabs, so it should be easier to discover the street view and walk score than when they were on the bottom bar of links on those windows (I still get suggestions to add street view, more [...]

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The Inspection, or How To Not Kick Yourself After Signing a Lease

So you’ve used PadMapper to find your dream rental: 1 bedroom, 1 bath, affordable, in a neighborhood you’ve always wanted to move to. Great! But before you go blindly signing the lease in a fit of joy, you will want to jump through that last hoop; The inspection. It can’t be stressed enough how important [...]

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