Manhattan Real Estate

Apartments are expensive
With an extra monthly fee
For maintenance, which I can
Understand, to a degree.

But in an advertisement
For a condo that’s for sale,
A factor was included
That would make some people bail.

Along with monthly maintenance,
The purchasers would pay
Nine hundred for utilities
But, more outrageous, they

Would have to shell out, with no choice,
(Get set for Oh, my goshing!)
A fee of almost fifty bucks
For monthly window washing!

Perhaps it’s people just like me
Who prompted such expenses.
My windows, lacking such demands,
Display the consequences.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019


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Date: 2/27/2019 4:11:00 PM
New York, New York, as Sinatra sang it. 'Course he could pony up the fifty bucks no problem. Heh, heh: My oldest son just relocated to Austin, Texas after ten-plus years in Manhattan, paying almost $4k rent at the end for a 500 square foot closet of an apartment. (He had a 1,000 square foot balcony though, where he held Super Bowl barbeques and such). Did I say, "New York, New York?!" :) gw
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Date: 2/23/2019 4:34:00 PM
Anyone who cleaned the windows of my daughter's home would certainly earn that $50 - two floors of 6x9" window panels! I suspect curtains were invented to hide dirty windows …..Aloha! Rico
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Date: 2/23/2019 1:57:00 PM
And Ilene, I truly thought I had heard everything. I guess not.
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Date: 2/23/2019 10:08:00 AM
Haha, well it's stops nosey people peering in.
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