That’s very overpriced imo.

You were quoted, in 2021 (with current material pricing), a full gut reno including new roof siding and other external work for $100k in Stamford?

Edit: And as far as price, I’m pretty sure that the median home price in Stamford is about $600k, so all the “crap” over 500k is more than half the homes in Stamford lol

>A healthy profit to be sure, but no where near twice the investment. Full gut and remodel including exterior work was almost certainly well into 6 figures (over $250k if I had to guess) with Fairfield county contractor pricing in effect.

i was quoted by several contractors a gut reno like this for ~$100k. these people are really out there..plus the reno looks so cheap and ugly. I wish them good luck trying to see this crap more than $500k with the horrendous school in stamford.

A healthy profit to be sure, but no where near twice the investment. Full gut and remodel including exterior work was almost certainly well into 6 figures (over $250k if I had to guess) with Fairfield county contractor pricing in effect.

i think whoever bought this house at this price is quite stupid. sorry to say. they used the cheapest materials (look at the backsplash in the kitchen) and they don't even have a fridge. Also, the house is right outside a busy road. I am also suspicious of the square footage. i think they might have included the unfinished basement. People always lie about the sq ft nowadays it's crazy as if no one thinks about the potential legal reprimand.

It's based on comparables, but given the sq footage for the area it'd not unreasonable. I get where you're coming from tho, person who flipped the house is gonna walk away w almost double their initial investment

I went from Optimum to Frontier, and despite the negative reviews or whatever, I couldn't be happier. It seemed like I was having an outage on Optimum at least once a week, on top of the speed package being much worse than Frontier.

Thanks a lot for the info. Fair housing laws make sense why prices should be fixed.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to share this info. Makes a lot of sense, how best for me to approach this situation. Really appreciate your insights.

lol

In my experience, rents are not negotiable when you are initially leasing. Sometimes you can get a perk or a free month based on current specials, but generally the rate is the rate. When you renew, sometimes you can negotiate on a proposed increase.

The reason for this is partly due to fair housing laws. Offering different rents to different people, who are looking at the exact same time and at the exact same units, can open the landlord/company up to discrimination lawsuits. People go undercover and check for this behavior all the time at apartments. (Source: I worked in fair housing for a brief period of time).

They are definitely negotiable (maybe get 1 free month or something). Anytime you ask if they are negotiable of course they are going to say no.

We are at Postmark, but I'm guessing your experience will be similar at most of the big buildings. They have a website where you can go select the apartment you want and the term you want and it calculates out the rates. The rates changed frequently, at least weekly, but not for every apartment. We knew what apartment we wanted, so we waited until the slow season and watched for the price to drop. This took some patience. Once it did, we pulled the trigger via the website.

Rates definitely do move up and down. But they are not 'negotiable' in the traditional way of the leasing agent tells you X, you counter offer Y, and so on. The leasing agent won't have the ability to make concessions because the price is controlled by the technology.

Instead, I'd suggest saying something like "we really like the apartment, but our budget is Y, we would sign if we can get that, but we're going to keep looking." And then you leave. You look at the other buildings. And you watch the website and wait. Hopefully the leasing agent will circle back with management and get them to drop the price for you.

There’s a shoprite next to good will and Wells Fargo, there’s one on the right side, take bus 328

Yes. My wife and I did....and do every time our lease is up.

Same

I bought my own router and the connection needs to be reset less frequently but still more often than I would like.

We have Optimum and it's probably the worst provider we've had out of many places we've lived. We haven't had any longer outages but it goes out for like 20 seconds all the time and you have to disconnect and reconnect. It might be a router issue but we're using the Optimum-provided router and it's only 8 months old.

T-Mobile has a 5G home wifi plan w/ unlimited usage that’s $50 a month and doesn’t fluctuate like Optimum does. The router is really good too. Highly recommend

Apparently most of the rest of the world pays $40/month for internet access. Sheesh.

just talked to them, i told them i don't live there and its strictly only for a security system and they offered me 114.99 a month

Honestly I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion but we’ve been really happy with Frontier

west stamford

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