Furnish Furnish Furnish!!!

For those of you who never had the pleasure in occupying the furnish housing sector. I would describe the experience as mind blowing at best. Just imagine walking into an apartment where you don’t need to buy a bed; fix the kitchen; paint the walls; buy the furnitures. I can go on but you all get the gists. These furnished units can save us so much time and energy that can be allocated to other areas. But yes it does come at a cost.

The typical response when presented with this as an option. Is usually “How much?”; that the normal response to everything. But It’s understandable, we live by our budgets and our time. Sometimes the question that needs to be ask is how much is my time worth? That is what these furnished rental might be the solutions to business travelers, students, or time sensitive needs of these individuals

Just take a minute to imagine that you’re shopping for a house and are not sure what neighborhoods you would like to live in or especially if you live out of state. Would a furnish rental for a month be an option. It would allow you to live the day in and day out of a homeowner and it might help you decide if this is the right location for you. It also can answers questions such as does the sanitation truck drive by every morning, or whose dogs is that barking all night. These experiences matter

This is just a basic synopsis in comparing the usefulness of a furnished rental by comparing it your time. Now all you need to ask is does it work for me.

New Housing Project Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Rendering of proposed Caton Flats

For those of you who haven’t been around prospect lefferts Garden lately. We have a new affordable housing project currently being developed. The “Caton Flat” is a prosposed mixed-use development project that will consist of affordable rental apartments and retail space for local entrepreneurs and business. Visit here

Retail space why so vacant

Has the time change in a world where a few decades ago we used to shop and interact with the store personnel. We would walk along the busy shopping strip in our neighborhoods and know our local clothing Tailors and butchers. These local business owners, who raise enough money to open up their shops would know their customers names and sometimes give frequent shoppers with a or two discount.

We have become more estrange to our business neighbors. With the arrival of Amazon, a majority of our local business has suffered declining sale and are unable to compete with “online sales”

Even the successful outlet like Old Navy, Staples, find themselves being replace by online retail store. Some customers don’t even needs to leaves the comfort of their homes. Everything has become accessible

So we then ask what happens to the retail spaces for the next decade. Would retail space becomes obsolete after all who would want to pay thousand of dollars to own a store and pay rent and get-up for 12 hour-shift in managing the day in and day out business

Let’s see can all these store be replace by being online and become more of an inventory driven business.

Next time you are walking to the nearest store in local neighborhood or if you happen to walk thru a busy mall take the chance to savor the moment.