Helpful COVID-19 resources for you

Creating an Office for Your Home-Based Business

Image via Pexels There are plenty of benefits of working from home: your commute disappears, you can work in your pajamas if you want to, and the hours are far more flexible than if you were in an office building. However, one major drawback for some home-based business owners is lacking a dedicated office space. If you don’t have space in your home for an office, make it a priority so you can be more productive and successful as a…

Three Ways to Find a Good Landlord

Finding a good landlord is just as important as finding a good apartment, especially now with unemployment and health concerns.  Apartment Therapy has a helpful article, “How to Find a Good Landlord” with three things renters should look when they want a good landlord-tenant relationship that’s beyond one that’s transactional. Since real estate is a financial investment, tenants should look for these three things: Alignment – Relationship that is a good fit for the landlord and for you Responsiveness –…

5 Tips to Help Not Go Crazy in Your Apartment

With the PAUSE order in effect until April 29th, GoHomeNY has 5 Tips to Help You Boost Your Immunity, Calm and Not Go Crazy in Your Apartment.   Visit a Museum Virtually. Spending more time in your apartments is a great opportunity to learn something new – virtually. Experience New York City museums on Google’s Arts & Culture including the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewit.  While other museums have virtual tours or exhibitions on their websites, including…

Neighborhood Guide to North Brooklyn’s Iconic Hipster ‘Hoods

The North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick have a similar vibe and lifestyle. A long standing Hassidic and Dominican neighborhood, Williamsburg’s transformation to arts enclave come hipster HQ began in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. When artists were priced out of Manhattan’s downtown villages, they sought new digs, preferably with live/work art spaces and easy access to the galleries, theaters, and vibrant creative community they’d left behind. Enter north Brooklyn. The neighborhood of Williamsburg had everything the artists were…

Why you should review your home on GoHomeNY – Homeowners Edition

Although over 60% of NYC residents are renters, we originally started GoHomeNY for home buyers and sellers in NYC. We bought and sold three condos in NYC and had remarkably different experiences each time, with the second go around ending in such (dis)stress that we decided to start a website to help other owners in the city. Almost every buyer uses a lawyer and a broker, but beyond reading the minutes and speaking with the management company, there is little…

Why You Should Review Your Building at GoHomeNY.com 

Reviews are an integral part of 21st Century daily life. When you order from a new restaurant, you are asked to leave a review. When you order shoes, or get a haircut, or make a call to customer service, or even do some banking, you’re asked to leave a review. We share our opinions on so many little things in life, isn’t it time to dish about the big ones? Perhaps the biggest one of all is our home, and so often, that’s precisely the thing we keep quiet about. Our…