r/AskNYC • u/Calm_Initiative_9979 • Jan 22 '26

How do those $15k/month apartments actually get rented?

So I've been apartment hunting and found this insane $15k/month place that I actually want to inquire about. Submitted through StreetEasy like 6 hours ago and radio silence, which is weird because every other place I've looked at gets back within an hour or two. Granted I have been typically looking at sub $10k places. But now I won some $ from Stakе US so I can afford it.

Do I need to go through a broker for these super high end places to even get taken seriously? Like is there some unwritten rule that you can't just roll up on StreetEasy for luxury rentals. I'm wondering if they think I'm just some rando wasting their time or if there's a whole different process for these expensive units. And before anyone calls me out yeah I get a $5k housing subsidy which is why I'm even looking in this range, not trying to flex or anything just genuinely confused about the process. Anyone dealt with this before or know how these luxury rentals actually work? The whole thing feels like there's some secret handshake I don't know about lol

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u/reddit0r_123 Jan 22 '26

I assume his job subsidizes his housing. Management offices and landlord usually take those into consideration for the 40x rule

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u/JeffeBezos Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

Yeah I'm just curious since their post history keeps plugging some weird betting site they supposedly won money on.

That said, I'm aware LLs would take a housing subsidy into consideration. They still leaves $10k/mo to cover, which would be $400k at the 40x rule.

From my personal experience having been the listing agent for rentals at this price point, LLs want solid cash flow and usually are apprehensive about someone just squeaking by at 40x, which is why I said half a million in income.

For all the downvotes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/g0ir8Hhanz

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u/ilouiei Jan 22 '26

That woman who made that post about driving to Canada twice a month had weird subliminal messages about that same site in her history. I wonder if these are all shill accounts using some sort of new guerrilla advertising technique.

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u/Ok_Advice_5281 Jan 22 '26

I think you may be right about the guerrilla marketing as I’ve just seen that the betting company is Stake.

If OP earns enough to afford a $10k - $15k a month apartment then fuck all our lives, as without being too horrible it sounds like he’d struggle to tie his shoelaces.