Ryan Shank rents a $4,700 two-bedroom in West Village and sublets the second bedroom on Airbnb for about $1,000 a night, 28-30 days monthly. That brings his personal rent down to under $1,000.
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What's up, Wagoners? Welcome to the apartment. We're gonna show you today what a 2-bedroom apartment for $4,700 per month in the West Village gets ya. Come on in. We have a living room, right? Kinda spacious. What I do, by the way, is I have an air mattress in here. So if I need extra, uh, you know, an extra bed for 2, 3, 4 people depending on how cozy you get. I wanna get a better couch 'cause I got this couch for free in like 2012 and I just haven't upgraded couches. And I posted this, so all of this stuff was actually in the closet and I usually just work on my laptop here. We're gonna take that to the office at Techstars, but this desk right here is pretty dope. It's like a nice big standing desk that you can go up and down with, so that's pretty tight. We got a nice 55 flat-screen mounted on the walls with the wires hidden, but check this out. They come out down here, so I need like a shelf, so I gotta figure all that out. Maybe like a shelf. To the master. Okay, so this is my room. Uh, a little AC going on there. Nice little bed, no headboard, no frame. Simple, but we got a nice mounted 55-inch TV that I got a Postmate to bring me from the Best Buy in Union Square one night at like 10 PM. I ordered TV on Postmates. Nice little view out here out the window. There's like a really cool townhouse, so I can like see into their view. You can kind of see in their kitchen. Keep going. We have a full bathroom. It's really, really small actually. And then this is the kitchen, stainless steel, granite countertops. We have a dishwasher, stove, oven, all that if you cook. I don't cook. Here's my— here's everything that I have. Oh, there actually is stuff. We're gonna check out the fridge. This is what I have. I don't know whose egg— those are not my eggs. Literally hot sauce and that's it. Freezer, there's ice cream. This, by the way, I didn't order. This is— so I, I rent this bedroom out on Airbnb. We have that. And then, by the way, second bedroom, uh, I don't know if there's a light. There's a light. So that's the second bedroom. It's very small. It's very New York. But I rent this room out usually by the night. So usually what happens is I stay in the other bedroom. I rent this out about $115 $1,000 a night. It's usually rented out between 28 and 30 days of the month, so it's rented out pretty much every single day. Tonight I actually have the entire place rented out. We just came to get my computer. That's why everything is so— like, the beds are made with towels on them and stuff, 'cause my cleaning lady came earlier today. Oh, by the way, there also is a closet in here. Holy shit! Uh, with a bunch of like bedding. Guest bedroom, kitchen. We got like a little alley view. So the reason I like this apartment so much is really because it's on the second floor. So as you guys can see, pretty low to the ground. It's not a ground floor though, so I don't have to worry about getting Kidnapped, plus it's not on like 3rd, 4th, 5th floor where you have to go up a lot of stairs. I don't even have to go up an elevator or anything. It's like literally I walk up here, check this out. So I walk up one set of stairs, get thrown into the apartment, and it's just that. You just literally just walk down like one set of stairs and boom, you're right out there. Greenwich Ave, right in West Village, 11th Street and like 7th Ave and Greenwich Ave. It's really dope, so it's a good location. So that's the apartment tour. Two-bedroom apartment, Manhattan, New York City, $4,700 a month. It's kind of a lot, but with the Airbnb people, I personally pay like less than 1,000.
