New York real-estate

New York city is probably one of the most difficult places in the world to find a decent apartment in....
I've been looking for a simple one bedroom apartment for 5 month or so!
The results are as following:
apartment too small, apartment is on the 4th floor walk-up, apartment is way too crappy!...
What's the deal with that?
Who the effin is willing to take a tiny-crappy apartment for $2000???

You get to the point that when you actually stumble upon a decent apartment, you're shocked!
But then you need to put in an application.
If you thought that looking for an apartment is tedious, wait 'till you get to the application....
Either you make in a year 40 times your monthly rent or you need to find someone who's willing to be your guarantor. Both you & your guarantor need to show like your entire bank statements, tax statements, recommandations from previous landlords, letter of employment stating your income & position, permission to get credit check...

Now let's say you have found a cute apartment, put in an application & amazingly enough got approved: you're supposed to sign this so not fair contract!

I have found a cute apartment after a crazy search, put in an application, got approved, went back to the apartment in order to see it one last time before signing the lease just to find out from a neighbour that the building is in really bad shape with terrible noisy tenants ):

uuuuf