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Bella Roy
Cum Laude Honors Graduate [Public Relations and Letters] from University of Oklahoma. Based in New York City.
During my quarantine, I like to write, apply for jobs, watch movies and apply for more jobs.
Cum Laude Honors Graduate [Public Relations and Letters] from University of Oklahoma. Based in New York City.
During my quarantine, I like to write, apply for jobs, watch movies and apply for more jobs.
Read my blog on Pucky.io's website:
https://pucky.io/2019/01/29/nyc-survival-guide/ From Okie to aspiring New Yorker, apartment hunting is no cakewalk. My partner and I moved with the intentions of escaping the rolling plains for the sleepless city. Her job needed her to relocate, fast. We had to think fast, too. Where would we put our stuff? Our dog? We found a sublet for a little over a month on a FB page several friends recommended to us called Gypsy Housing. Gypsy Housing is a group on Facebook fro New Yorkers to share their space with strangers ,for one week to 6 months. The post was from a Brooklyn-based New Yorker; she planned a vacation in Mexico for one month. We reached out to her through Gypsy Housing and she agreed to let us stay in her space shared with two other roommates. The Brooklyn experience brought us two new friends, who we actually became fairly close to, including dinner dates and a binge watch session. During our Brooklyn stay, my partner and I used the Street Easy and Naked Apartments apps. Through Street Easy we met a realtor, from Metro Nest Apartment named Ricky Huezo, who hosted an open house the first weekend we moved to New York. We liked him. He was our first impression of real estate in the Big Apple. We naturally, however, looked at dozen of other apartments via Street Easy and Naked Apartments during our 30 day window with Huezo and with other realtors, too. But other realtors tried to schmooze us into paying a brokers fee. Desperate to find a home, the days dwindled. As we swiped through Street Easy, my partner found an apartment that caught both of our eyes. We asked Huezo if the apartment was in his portfolio. Sure enough, it was. An app and a friendship brought us to our new NYC apartment in the East Village of Manhattan. It's true what they say: it's not what you know, but who you know. Make friends. Go to shows. Take a walk. There's always someone willing to help out, whether that be sharing their space, offering apartment advice or like Huezo, actually finding you a place to live.
2 Comments
Johnson Palmino
3/16/2020 11:26:51 pm
Funny and cute
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Leigh Roy
3/16/2020 11:27:25 pm
Yes!!! Make new friends! People make this world go round!
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